Craig's handsome face darkened, and with a frustrated sigh, he sent her a period, hoping to add her as a friend again and transfer the money to her.

But instead of a prompt to accept the friend request, WhatsApp showed a chilling message:

[Message sent, but rejected by the recipient.]

So, he hadn't been simply deleted; he had been blocked.

It looked like Aurora had made up her mind to cut off all contact with him.

In a way... this was what Craig had wanted to see.

But when he fully realized it, his heart felt like it was being squeezed, causing him physical pain. He even had to clutch at his chest.

Standing frozen for what felt like an eternity, only moving again when daylight started to seep through the windows, Craig finally shuffled back to the bathroom to continue his "regular" life. Shower, sleep, wake up, work for a living.

Maybe at twenty, with youthful ignorance and energy, he could have believed in a chance for something more.

But now at thirty, a high school dropout, what kind of future could he possibly dream of, especially thinking he could share a life with the heiress of the Lopez Corporation?

Felicity had miscalculated, badly.

hadn't expected the second round with Miles to last so

passed out, missing

groggily woke up, it was already noon the

pull herself up from the bed, noticing that her

the pillow was a note from

Got some business to handle at the company, but

Wait for him?

she could help

set in, all she could

grabbed her phone to call an Uber, desperate to get

got dressed and was about

...

in front of her, as suave as ever in his black suit and crisply pressed white shirt, his long

was this very

to explore more thoroughly in the

steel, a touch she

"You're leaving?"

her intentions

my mom wants me

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