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.

call from Saunders

was tomorrow, and he would probably be drinking with Johnny and the

and he wondered if he could still hold his liquor. Either way, he just needed some rest, and he would be ready for

up very early the

clock somehow took after his parents’ before he knew it-he never usually stayed

along the presents he prepared and left at the right time-neither too late nor too

late, thinking it was fashionable, only to find that childish

months, surprising even

banquet hall, he saw Jay and Zoe greeting guests from

be, having both

and

gaped for a while before exclaiming exaggeratedly, “You really came

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