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.”

had settled in. A cold wind swept through the alley. Around the corner, a stray cat hissed as if it had lost a

added lightly, "For me, intimacy requires. both

Glen as well. Raymond lacked equal footing. Glen

Glen did not look disappointed.

because of Raymond, anyone else would

for Raymond. She had always known how to cut her losses. What she had done for

different

a red light on her drive home, Glen's

Even she did not

had not reconciled with Julian, she and Raymond would never

seemed to have lost the ability to feel that first

no matter how deeply

time she reached Haven, her thoughts

killed the engine, grabbed her bag,

approached her

out of her mind, launched