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 into laughter. “How

rest of

continued, “Have you secretly accepted anything else

said, “Before Thanksgiving, Marshall sent some egg tarts to

face turned green. “And you accepted

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

pastry gift box. Felicity

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

of losing it, so she even added a sturdy iron

it have gone?’

give much thought to the keychain. However, amid the argument with Keegan, she recalled that not only

that the kidnapping might

missing item happened to be

As Stella was in thought,

“Are you a

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