Ian caught the tie clip with a confused expression. "Mr. Salvador, what's this?"

Justin closed his eyes for a brief rest, loosening the knot of his tie, yet he still felt its stifling weight.

"Something from Clarice."

"Oh! Some random trash from that woman? No thanks!" Ian scoffed, tossing it away immediately. "I've got a girlfriend. I don't need misunderstandings."

"A girlfriend?" Justin asked, eyes still closed, brows slightly furrowed.

"Yeah, Rachel."

Justin frowned. "She's of age now?"

Ian laughed, exasperated. "She's a college student, Mr. Salvador. Do you really think I'm a monster?"

Justin's mind drifted back to the time he and Bella had helped save a girl named Rachel Meads. Fragments of that memory flashed in his mind, but then lan's voice broke through his thoughts.

"Mr. Salvador, look!"

the sight before him made his heart skip

the car, surrounded by a flurry of snowflakes. In the intense white light, her dark hair whipped around in the wind, as if it might

He opened the car

Salvador." Bella greeted him with a faint smile, calm

the cold. She must have been waiting outside for

utter a single word. He remembered she hated the cold. Whenever it got chilly, she would always nestle into his arms, using

voice was soft, lacking any expectation of his concern. She

together. "We can talk in

a slight

exited the car to give

birthday." Bella broke the

from the corner of his

need a

what you promised me,

voice

time to keep

fingers, her gaze smoldering with intensity. "Tomorrow at 3:00 p.m., I want

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