Janet was left breathless from the deep kiss. She pinched Ethan’s cheek and smiled shyly. “I’m not a child anymore. I can handle this. I’ll get going now, okay?”

Glorie Street was an old and remote block. There was only one restaurant here—the steakhouse Lila mentioned.

It wasn’t a particularly clean restaurant. There were all sorts of bugs and flies all over the place.

In the restaurant sat a group of tough-looking men with tattoos covering their arms. With toothpicks in their mouths, they looked just like a bunch of hooligans.

As soon as Janet stepped foot inside the steakhouse, they all turned to look at her with eager eyes.

Lila stood up and waved at her from the table near the door. “Janet, over here!”

Janet nodded in greeting.

They hadn’t seen each other for over a month. Lila had lost a lot of weight. Her makeup was not as pristine as before, and her eyes were full of undisguised fatigue.

area. How about we talk there?” Janet

so I could only afford the

with no choice, Janet sat down at the

There were barely any people outside, too. This was clearly

steak. Lila pushed one of them in front of Janet and

spoke, she glanced meaningfully at the man who had

his friends were

all. She sliced a piece of her steak and put

stick and some ropes, followed by a group

a group of men in

a matter of seconds, the men in black quickly subdued

from the table and shouted,

her steak calmly. The steak here was

who was wearing a dark brown windbreaker today, strode in. He sat next to Janet, took out a handkerchief, and handed

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