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 if it had

me, intimacy requires. both love

rejecting Raymond, she rejected Glen as well. Raymond lacked equal footing. Glen lacked love. What she felt for

not look disappointed. If

As long as it was not because of Raymond, anyone

knew exactly what Tiffany had given up for Raymond. She had always known how to cut her

how different Raymond

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

up on one guy? Even

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

she seemed to have lost the ability

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

Haven, her

engine, grabbed her bag, and

her building, she dialed

her mind, launched