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.

to him through video call from Saunders

celebration for Zoe’s baby was tomorrow, and he would

he could still hold his liquor. Either way, he just needed some rest, and he would

very

biological clock somehow took after his parents’ before he knew it-he never usually stayed up late and would wake up

left at the right time-neither too late nor too early,

late, thinking it

months, surprising even himself. He used to believe

saw Jay and Zoe greeting

not be, having both a son and a daughter

his way over to them, and they were both

a while before exclaiming exaggeratedly, “You really came

merely notified him on Facebook, sending it in a