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.

expected the second round with Miles to last

out,

up, it was

teeth, she managed to pull herself up from the bed, noticing that her ankle had been treated

her on the pillow

table. Got some business to handle at the company, but I'll be back

Wait for him?

if she could

in the moment, but once reality set in, all

her phone to call an

was about to sneak out,

...

of her, as suave as ever in his black suit and crisply

was this

liberty to explore more thoroughly in

hard as steel, a touch she found particularly

"You're leaving?"

her intentions

well... Langston, my mom

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