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.”

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

intimacy requires. both love and equal standing. One without the

rejected Glen as well. Raymond lacked equal footing. Glen lacked love. What she felt for him was friendship, the

did not look disappointed. If

because of

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

different

her

hung up on one guy? Even

with Julian, she and Raymond would never have

seemed to have lost the ability

Or because she knew that no matter how deeply she felt, the ending would remain

she reached Haven,

the engine, grabbed her

her

her mind, launched