"Oh?" Maria's face showed a faint smirk as she looked at Sidney's cold expression. With a curious tone, she asked, "How exactly do you plan to make me regret it?"

Sidney tightened his grip on her wrist, his eyes locking onto hers as he said, "You care a lot about Lucas, don't you?"

"What do you mean by that?" Maria looked at him with genuine curiosity.

She really wanted to know-what else could he do?

But instead of answering, Sidney loosened his hold on her wrist.

Without further explanation, he simply said, "Take care. I won't be seeing you out."

With that, he turned and headed back to the hospital room.

Maria watched his retreating figure, the interest in her eyes deepening.

What did he mean by that?

...

glanced at Sidney's expression and suddenly asked, "So, tell me, why did

Sidney didn't explain the complicated matters and instead came up with a quick excuse. "I want to focus on my studies. The

else would it be? What do you

figure it out, but

chose not to press further and instead asked, "Why haven't we seen Miss Young lately?

her family and has settled

That's wonderful," Ruth said, breaking

news that Aveline had found her family

pity that things didn't work out between the two of you. I blame my own poor health for holding you back. If it weren't for me, you could have..." "Mom," Sidney interrupted her. "Stop

hearing such things, so she didn't continue

working part-time at various restaurants and coffee houses. He couldn't

working at the coffee house, he heard

he saw Maria

her eyes gleaming with amusement as she looked

quickly the code, and then backing leisurely as prepared the coffee. the

you come back to work for

bother replying, staying

didn't seem to

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