"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?

...

Ruth glanced at Sidney's expression and suddenly asked, "So,

want to focus on my studies.

countered, "What else would it be? What do you think

it out,

asked, "Why haven't we seen Miss

and has settled in Larbor City now,"

wonderful," Ruth said, breaking into

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 overthinking. I'm still

hearing such things, so she didn't continue

between sending out resumes and working part-time at various restaurants and coffee houses. He couldn't afford

the coffee house, he heard the door

saw

said, smiling as she stood at the counter, her eyes gleaming with amusement as she looked at him.

out her phone, quickly the code, and then backing

back to work for me?".

didn't bother replying, staying

didn't seem

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