"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?

...

hospital room, Ruth glanced at Sidney's expression and suddenly asked, "So, tell me, why did you quit your

on my studies. The work

"What else would it be? What do you

it out, but she still

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

family and has settled in

That's wonderful," Ruth said,

liked Aveline, and the news that Aveline had found her

slight sigh, Ruth added, "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

like hearing such things, so she didn't continue

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

working at the coffee

saw Maria strolling

said, smiling as she stood at the counter, her eyes gleaming with amusement as she looked at him. Sidney responded curtly, "Please

quickly the code, and then

to work for me?". Maria asked, genuinely puzzled as she observed his

bother replying, staying

didn't seem

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