A Life Debt Repaid

Sam returned to the country six months later.

Saunderia’s foreign branch was developing smoothly, and everything was on the right track.

Still, Sam returned only to attend the celebration of Zoe’s son’s birth, not because he missed home.

Time flies-Zoe was still heavily pregnant when he left, and the baby was three months old now.

Sam headed home first without telling anyone when he came back-it was dusty since it was vacant for a while, so he had cleaners tidy up the place.

He lay on the familiar bed, alone in the house.

That night, he loved the woman he held most dear, but it was nothing more than history.

He would have worked hard to forget if he had not returned, and he had no idea if he succeeded.

and Quinn spoke- there were times when his parents spoke to him through video call from

tossed around-the celebration for Zoe’s baby was tomorrow, and he would probably be drinking with Johnny and the

been a while since he did, and he wondered if he could still hold his liquor. Either way,

woke up very

after his parents’ before he knew it-he never usually stayed up late and

he prepared and left at the right time-neither too late nor too early, going with

used to like being late, thinking it was fashionable, only to

last six months, surprising even himself. He used to

Jay and Zoe greeting guests from afar,

having both a son and a

over to them, and

especially gaped for a while before exclaiming

merely notified him on Facebook, sending it