Chapter 27

At the end, Paige grumbled.

“Don’t worry, my boss… is super generous.” Rosalynn chuckled, pushing a cup of ice cream towards Paige, “Calm your jets.”

“You’re just too nice. That’s why those cowards in your company dare to throw their problems at you!”

It was all thanks to Paige that they found Trevor’s mom’s account.

After dinner, Rosalynn and Paige walked home hand in hand.

“When I was young, my parents and I would often walk on this street holding hands after dinner,” Paige patted a thick sycamore tree by the roadside, “Back then, these trees weren’t as lush as they are now.”

Paige’s father passed away in a car accident when she was ten. A few years later, her mother married a rich businessman, and also that year, with her stepfather’s help, Paige went to study abroad.

“Missing your dad?” Rosalynn asked gently.

Paige bit her lip and nodded, “Yeah, a lot.”

of her hand,

got pregnant and returned to the L City. Her grandparents had no idea who the father

her mom’s drunken ramblings that her father had just proposed when he got caught cheating. Afterward, Rosalynn never asked about her dad again. But her mom wasted her life away, losing

Paige didn’t stay overnight.

into a corner of the couch, opened her phone, and sent

out of Garden Lakeside. The key

the message, there was

expected a response. She started to pack her belongings for her

through her packing, her

grabbed it, and the caller

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somewhat ridiculous. She actually

lately that I forgot to

was as cheerful as ever, “In that case, how about you treat me

helplessly, “I’ve gotta go to Q City for a week-long business trip first

“Q City?”

“Yeah,” Rosalynn replied.

an early trip tomorrow, I won’t bother

“Goodnight, Evan.”

Evan quickly hung up.

much

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