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.

the area. How about we talk there?” Janet suggested, glancing at the men from

Jeff’s. I don’t have that much money now, so I could only afford the food here,” Lila explained

with no choice, Janet sat down at

was empty other than the group of men. There were barely any

plates of steak. Lila pushed one of them in front of

spoke, she glanced meaningfully at the man who had

his friends were hiding in

Ethan guarding outside, Janet wasn’t afraid at all. She sliced a piece of her steak

stick and some ropes, followed by a group

could even get close to Janet, a group of men in

seconds, the men in black quickly subdued Jeff and his

was shocked. She stood up from the table and shouted, “Who the hell are you?

to eat her steak calmly. The steak here was pretty good; she had to give Lila

windbreaker today, strode in. He sat next to Janet, took out a handkerchief, and handed it to her. “Honey,

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