"Fine, you've got three days. Don't play any tricks on me when the time comes!"

The man was about to hang up.

Quincy felt a sting of injustice. Why were so many guys willing to bend over backwards for Dorothy?

This was ten million dollars, not just a thousand! And to hand that over without any guarantee, he must really be smitten with Dorothy. "Wait a sec! Can you at least tell me your name?"

"Why do you wanna know?"

"No big reason, just curious. We've made a deal after all, knowing your name isn't too much to ask, right?"

The man was silent for a few seconds, and just when Quincy thought he wouldn't divulge his name, he suddenly spoke up.

"Lane."

"What?"

"I said, my name's Lane."

...

fell, Everett hadn't

hadn't gotten in touch, it meant he was probably out playing some charade with Quincy. Dorothy

hurt before realizing they'd loved the wrong person, before understanding Everett

and Langston had finished their homework and were now chattering about their day at school, their lively

this was the

they could provide later

like these, making life

Complete.

isn't dad back yet?" Langston came over, clutching his laptop as if he couldn't bear to be apart from it for a

replied while

from him, "He

can't

all the time,

about your eyesight?"

but every time the progress bar hits 50%, it freezes and then tells me there's

him then. No

"It's dad's

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