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.”

swept through the alley. Around the corner, a stray cat hissed as

both love and equal standing. One without the other doesn't

as well. Raymond lacked equal footing. Glen lacked love. What she

not look disappointed. If anything,

as it was not because of Raymond,

She had always known how to cut her losses. What she had done for him had gone against her

how different Raymond had

stopped at a red light on her drive home,

up on one guy? Even she did not have a

knew one thing. If Sydney had not reconciled with Julian, she and Raymond

ability to feel that first flutter of attraction

she knew that no matter how deeply she felt, the ending

reached Haven,

the engine, grabbed her bag,

her building,

of her mind, launched straight