Harley said, “You don’t need to apologize to me, you didn’t do anything wrong.”

“But my father…”

“That’s your father, not you. Besides, didn’t you just try to stop your father?” she said, her gaze falling on the red swelling on Calvert’s face. She raised her hand and gently touched the swollen area.

Calvert’s body suddenly shuddered, looking somewhat helplessly at the other person.

“We need to apply some medicine quickly, or it might swell up even worse tomorrow,” Harley said. “Do you have any medicine. at home?”

“I do have some. The ointment you gave me last time, I haven’t used it all up yet,” he quickly replied.

“That’s good,” she said, pulling her hand back. “Let’s go then.”

Calvert hesitated for a moment. He didn’t want her to see him in such a mess. But now, it seemed like she was witnessing his disarray once again, and, he was powerless to do anything about it.

In the end, he took the step, heading towards his own home,

alongside him, taking in the surroundings as they

had only seen such an environment in movies and TV shows but had never personally

and dilapidated, even the air seemed to emit a

this was where Calvert lived.

of Calvert’s apartment building, Calvert said, “I’m

run–down six–story apartment building, it didn’t even have an elevator.

you to your doorstep, the least you could do is

flustered, “You want to come

not okay?” Harley

stuck in his throat, unable to come out: “It’s not that I can’t, it’s just that my place

okay,” she said.

Harley was walking with Calvert, she suddenly became curious about what

lips, murmuring,

led the

there anyone at your place

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