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 Mona wasn’t

chance,

past few days, trying to prevent

a thing back then, but nothing ever

“And she came all the way

It didn’t seem right to completely

just now,

came and saw her? Would you be

I didn’t think about all these unnecessary

hard to stay

knew? He was so off-kilter

face

in mood had the whole room chuckling.

as people leaned

it’s Mrs. Witt who’s been gunning for a divorce, not Mr.

way Mr. Witt is clinging to

off the charts.”

Mr. Witt was the cool, aloof,

Turns out he’s more like a lovesick

always at

yet secretly

I still think it’s Mr.

it’s all good, their misunderstandings are

topic of misunderstandings came up, eyes

been silent throughout.

the pot and causing trouble, these two

had so many

changing party venues, intentionally

night, creating pressure for

as

doesn’t come with

her weight

for

place, the hem of

humiliation rushed towards her from all directions, making

sense of grievance spread through

was nothing she could say. She felt utterly powerless to refute

Morrison’s

same day. She was

been

inkling about Rose’s feelings for Morrison. So Rose was right.

birthday, to stir the pot

celebration, it would surely be a

two of them, one

face his feelings, and the other constantly shutting

between them, it was unlikely to be

many things, but she never anticipated that

Rose from the

moment they showed up in identical dresses, the

bound to draw

inevitable.

people appeared wearing

inevitably compare them.

attitude changed, and Rose’s

diverged from

didn’t even anticipate that Rose

years ago, and she had no idea that Mason would suddenly

she gave Morrison

confrontation involving the three of them

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