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.

through video call from Saunders Mansion. However,

tomorrow, and he would probably be drinking with

wondered if he could still hold his liquor. Either way, he just needed some

up very early the next

it-he never usually

brought along the presents he prepared and left at the right time-neither too

thinking it was fashionable,

over the last six months, surprising even himself. He used to

and Zoe greeting guests from afar, both of

would not be, having both

way over to them, and they were both stunned to

a while before

had merely notified him on Facebook, sending it