The Returning Ex

It was a call from Jasmine. Logan didn’t avoid her either, taking the call right away. On the other end, Jasmine asked him out for dinner, her voice cheerful. Logically speaking, it stood to reason for them to have dinner tonight. After all, Logan gave her flowers at noon, so it was standard operation for a normal couple to have a date at night. However, since she’d waited for his phone call the entire day to no avail, she could only take the initiative to phone him.

Logan’s brows unconsciously furrowed. “Tonight? I don’t think I can make it since I’m otherwise occupied.”

Jasmine paused for a heartbeat. “With a very urgent matter?”

Logan grunted, “Yes. It’s a very urgent matter, so I can’t make it tonight.”

Actually, it was rather obvious that Jasmine was a touch disappointed. Sighing lightly, she replied, “Never mind, then. I’ll leave you to it. We’ve got plenty of time, so we’ll just go out another time.”

anything superfluous, Logan hung up

stole a glance at him out of the corner of her eye. Although there wasn’t a hint of guilt in his expression, she felt very much ill at ease. For some reason, she felt perturbed that

last, Logan’s car came to a stop in front of a private restaurant. The two of them entered together and went to a private room. After he’d ordered and the server had gone out,

“What exactly is the matter? Say something. What’s the meaning of you staring

his lips, his words seemingly stuck in his throat. At

his meaning. “You want me to masquerade as

is quite a risk, so I’m merely asking. If you

She was a person who abhorred evil in nature, and her former profession was even more dangerous than this, yet she’d never

couldn’t figure out. “Why