With that, Morrison snatched the bracelet from Rose’s hand and slipped it onto

his own wrist. He then thrust his arm toward Rose, flashing a cheeky grin, “You

gotta admit, it fits perfectly.”

Rose couldn’t help but twitch the corners of her mouth, “Looks like I

overestimated the size when I bought it years ago.”

Shaking his head, Morrison wrapped his arms around her, nuzzling her forehead

affectionately, “It’s not too big. I just never hit that growth spurt.”

His voice was thick with charm, and eventually, Rose’s face broke into a smile.

The platinum bracelet glinted under the soft glow of the party lights, adorning his

wrist with casual elegance. It looked just as stunning as she had imagined when

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she first picked it out.

“I finally gave out this gift,” she murmured, staring at the string of bracelets, her

face wearing a contented smile.d2

“Yeah. I’m really happy,” Morrison replied, pulling Rose closer, as if trying to

merge her into his very soul.

After years of awkwardness, for the first time, he found shamelessness

refreshingly easy.

Rose sighed lightly, lifting her gaze to the discarded watch he had tossed aside

with a half-smirk. “Isn’t that the one Mona strapped on you herself?”

Morrison’s face stiffened, “Well, she insisted, to give her a little credit.”

“So giving her ‘credit’ meant letting her strap a watch on you?”

“Did you ever think about what the headlines would be if I hadn’t shown up

tonight? Ex-girlfriend throws a birthday bash for Mr. Morrison? Or maybe, Public

display of affection at the birthday party, is there a new Mrs. Witt in town?'”

Morrison’s scalp tingled with discomfort. What a mess. Since when did putting

on a watch come with so many implications? Women’s thoughts were truly hard

to fathom.

But recalling how Mona’s antics had led to him standing Rose up at his own

birthday party years ago, he couldn’t help but wonder if they could’ve avoided all

these complications.

he was the culprit, and

never intended to give her a chance, you know that. How

few days, trying to prevent you from filing for

have a thing back then,

then he continued, “And she came

It didn’t seem right

when I couldn’t find you just now, my mind

saw her? Would

quickly and leave. I didn’t think about all these unnecessary

it hard to stay mad. Was

knew? He was so

Morrison’s face softened, his own lips curving

in mood had the whole room

mouths as people leaned back with

it turns out it’s Mrs. Witt who’s been gunning

clinging to

off the charts.”

always thought Mr. Witt was the cool,

more like

funny, always at each other’s throats,

yet secretly crushing.

think it’s Mr.

all good, their misunderstandings are finally

came up, eyes turned

been silent throughout.

weren’t for someone stirring the pot and causing trouble, these

so

party venues, intentionally ignoring

snow all night,

stooping to theft as a birthday

with poverty, but

above her weight with luxury

disdain for

in place, the hem of

rushed towards her

and wronged. The sense of grievance

say. She felt utterly powerless to

just wanted to attend Morrison’s birthday party. She

same day. She was also aware

Morrison had been causing these past few

had an inkling about Rose’s feelings

come to celebrate Morrison’s birthday, to stir the pot if possible.

purely for celebration, it would surely be a dagger in

two of them, one being stubborn and

other constantly shutting everyone out, even if

it was unlikely

about many things, but she never

from the very

showed up in identical dresses, the stage

alongside Rose was bound to draw

inevitable.

when two people appeared wearing identical dresses,

inevitably compare them.

attitude changed, and Rose’s calm and

diverged

didn’t even anticipate that Rose would suddenly bring up

and she had no idea that Mason would suddenly mention

gave Morrison

involving the three of

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