When Dexter recalled this morning, the image of Josie’s peculiar and irritating expression immediately came to mind. It was truly vexing yet vivid.

“You don’t have to personally handle all of this,” Dexter spoke as if he was discussing something completely mundane, his tone indifferent.

“No need to worry. One must always pay extra attention to such an important occasion,” Heather replied, her expression remaining unchanged. “Could you give me a ride home? My car broke down and the driver took it for repairs.”

In the elevator mirror, the woman’s pleading expression appeared.

Dexter glanced over with an indifferent look, as if he didn’t care. “I’ll have Moses send you.”

The two of them had already reached the parking lot. Upon hearing this, Heather instantly became displeased. She wrapped her hands around his arm. “No, I want you to take me. Besides, my father has been constantly talking about you.”

The latter part of her sentence seemed to touch the man’s heart. He neither agreed nor disagreed, simply casting a glance at her hands.

This glance was so intimidating that she instinctively withdrew her hands, her smile tinged with a hint of bitterness. “She was there in the photos the tailor sent this morning. Did you give your silent consent?”

She still asked.

didn’t react much; he had

Heather felt some regret. She carefully studied the man’s profile. “I’m sorry. It’s just that I’m your fiancée. If the media were

welled up in her eyes as she

but all he felt was an intense annoyance at the glimpse of white in his peripheral

won’t retaliate, given her personality?” Heather’s voice rose slightly. “She was the one who embarrassed me first

a glance, his voice

lips, regulating her

silence all the

at Olsen Residence, Dexter did not get out of the car to visit Mark. He simply made a turn and left, without noticing the solitary and fragile woman in his rearview

her eyes. She sniffled, and the softness

a large breed dog. Even in his old age, he still exuded a

never felt this

gesturing to it. “Back then, I thought that you would protect me once you grew up. You

past years, her smile faltered for a moment,

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