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.

times when his parents spoke to him through video call from Saunders Mansion. However, it was usually night and Quinn did not show up, though

Zoe’s baby was tomorrow, and he would probably be drinking with Johnny and

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

woke up very early the next

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

up smartly, he brought along the presents he prepared and left at the right time-neither too late nor too early, going with the

late, thinking it was

six months, surprising even

Zoe greeting guests from afar,

be, having both a son and a daughter

way over to them, and they were

a while before exclaiming exaggeratedly, “You really

him on Facebook, sending