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.

cafes in the area. How about we talk there?” Janet suggested, glancing at the men from the corner of her

have that much money now, so I could only afford the food here,” Lila explained with

no choice, 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 doing

staff soon brought them two plates of steak. Lila pushed one of them in front

at the man who had served the steak

and his friends were hiding

afraid at all. She sliced a piece of her steak

the kitchen, holding a stick

they could even get close to Janet, a group of men in black swarmed inside the

men in black quickly subdued Jeff and

and shouted, “Who the hell are

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

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

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