Stella chuckled, “This necklace is so heavy; I doubt flushing it down the toilet would work.”

Keegan gritted his teeth and said, “How could you say that? You deliberately put it on the bedside to make me uncomfortable, right?”

Stella nodded unapologetically and replied with a smile, “I just wanted to see how long you could pretend.”

Keegan was at a loss for words.

Feigning anger, he said, “You have no sense of boundaries! How many times have you received gifts from him?”

“Not many. Just a necklace and a talisman.”

Keegan’s fake irritation turned into genuine annoyance. “What about the phone he gave you?”

Stella chuckled nervously upon hearing that. “It’s been too long; I forgot.” Then she justified herself. “Besides, it’s not like I accepted it for free. I gave him a tie in return. It cost me 6999 dollars. When I think about it, it feels like a loss. That phone wasn’t worth that much either.”

Keegan had a deadpan face at that point. “It cost you 7098; you missed ninetynine dollars.”

remembered the socks and burst

rest of my life!” Keegan

at Stella and continued, “Have you secretly accepted

“Before Thanksgiving, Marshall sent some egg

face turned green. “And you

boxes of egg tarts from Royle’s. Felicity liked them a lot, so

came with the pastry gift box. Felicity took one, and Stella hung

keychain on her bag was gone. The police claimed they did not see

of losing it, so she even added a sturdy iron

it have gone?’ she

with Keegan, she recalled that not only was

kidnapping

the missing item happened to be something he

be a connection between them?’ As Stella was in

head back and said, “Are you a dog? Why are you biting

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