Once a Doormat, Now Untouchable

Chapter 641

When Tiffany left, Glen walked her downstairs. Before he could speak, she pointed toward her car. "You should head back up."

"Wait." Glen stepped closer and stopped her. He gathered his thoughts, then said gently, "About what my mom said earlier...”

“We're friends." Tiffany curved her red lips into a carefree smile.

Sometimes elders say things in passing. I won't take it to heart. And I definitely won't let it affect our many years of revolutionary friendship."

It was such a flawless answer that it left him nowhere to go.

The implication was unmistakable. If it remained parental teasing, she would treat it as a joke and they would stay good friends. If he chose to pursue it himself, even that friendship might not survive.

Glen listened as the corners of his mouth flattened. After a moment, he ventured half-jokingly, "Don't tell me the great Lawyer Voss is still hung up on the same guy?"

He did not name him, but they both knew.

Tiffany did not pretend otherwise. She gave a soft laugh. "Which guy? Raymond? We're not even from the same world.”

the alley. Around the corner, a stray cat hissed

paused, then added lightly, "For me, intimacy requires. both

well. Raymond lacked equal footing. Glen lacked love.

not look disappointed. If anything, he

not because of Raymond,

known how to cut her losses. What she

was how different Raymond had

light on her drive home, Glen's question resurfaced in Tiffany's

guy? Even she did not have a

with Julian, she

years, she seemed to have lost the ability to feel that

it because of Raymond? Or because she knew that no matter how deeply she felt, the ending

Haven, her thoughts

grabbed her

her building, she

out of her mind, launched straight