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.

spoke to him through video call

around-the celebration for Zoe’s baby was tomorrow, and he would probably

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

very early

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

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

like being late, thinking it was fashionable, only

matured over the last six months, surprising even himself. He used to believe his personality would never

he saw Jay and Zoe greeting guests from afar, both of them

be, having both a son and

over to them, and

for a while before exclaiming exaggeratedly, “You really came

merely notified him on Facebook, sending