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.

culprit, and Mona wasn’t innocent

chance, you know that.

days, trying to

back then, but

continued, “And she came

birthday. It didn’t seem right to

you just now, my mind

and saw her? Would you

quickly and leave. I didn’t

found it hard to

was so off-kilter

face

sudden shift in mood had

as people

it turns out it’s Mrs. Witt who’s

way Mr. Witt is clinging to Mrs. Witt,

off the charts.”

thought Mr. Witt was the cool,

more like a lovesick

couple is just too funny, always at each other’s throats,

secretly

still think it’s Mr. Witt who’s being

their misunderstandings are finally

up, eyes turned to Mona, who

been silent throughout.

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

so many

changing party venues,

all night, creating pressure for a

even stooping to theft as a birthday gift. She

come with

her weight with

crowd’s disdain for Mona was

in place, the hem of her dress crumpled in

humiliation rushed towards her from all directions, making

The sense of grievance spread through her,

say. She felt utterly powerless to

had just wanted to attend Morrison’s birthday party. She knew about

same day. She

Rose and Morrison had been causing these past

feelings for Morrison. So Rose was right.

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

would surely

between the two of

his feelings, and the other

any love between them, it

had thought about many things, but she never anticipated that

with Rose from the very beginning

the moment they showed up in

alongside Rose was bound

inevitable.

people appeared

inevitably compare them.

Morrison’s attitude changed, and Rose’s calm

completely diverged

even anticipate that Rose would suddenly bring up

no idea that

when she gave Morrison a

three of them left Mona with no

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