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.

talk there?” Janet

now, so I could only afford the food here,” Lila explained with a smile. “Oh,

Janet sat down

restaurant was empty other than the group of men. There were barely any people outside, too. This was clearly a place for

Lila pushed one of them in front of Janet and

meaningfully at the man who had served the steak just

his friends were hiding in the

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

out of the kitchen, holding a stick and

to Janet, a

the men in black quickly subdued Jeff and

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

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

sat next to Janet, took out a handkerchief, and handed

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