"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?

...

expression and suddenly asked, "So, tell me, why

focus on my studies. The work at the studio was too

would it

couldn't figure it out, but she still

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

settled

Ruth said, breaking into

Aveline, and the news that Aveline had found her family made her truly

"Miss Young is such a good girl. It's just a 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

such things, so she didn't

and coffee

the coffee house, he

saw Maria

at the counter, her eyes gleaming with amusement as

phone, quickly the code, and

won't you come back to work for me?". Maria asked, genuinely puzzled as

didn't bother replying, staying

didn't seem

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