“Don’t be angry. Take a seat.” Tim pulled out a chair for Tina.

Thud! She flung her bag violently onto the table. “How could I not be? I could have ended Sonia today. Once she’s gone, I won’t have any troubles in the future. But you—”

“Toby is at the hospital,” he cut her off.

Tina was visibly shocked. “What? He is at the hospital?”

 

“Yes, that’s right. Plus, he was right outside the operation theater, and he clearly saw me entering. Think about it, if I were the surgeon, and Sonia lost her life in the end, don’t you think he’d get suspicious and look into it?”

Learning about the unexpected news, she bit her lip. “You’re right. We can’t kill her right away. Still, you could have aborted her baby. Why didn’t you do it?”

She shot the man an angry glare, but he calmly poured a glass of water for her. “Don’t worry. We have plenty of chances to do that. Do you not trust me?”

might acknowledge the baby and remarry her,” she replied with her

Tim’s face. “You’re overthinking. Toby thinks differently from Sonia. He knew that the child was his, and he personally waited outside the operation theatre for her surgery to end. From there, you could tell that

I have told you before—his

 

“By the way, I have never asked you the reason behind your envy and hate for Sonia. Since she has divorced Toby and it does not look like she’d rekindle the

that, she dodged his gaze guiltily and remarked

Toby’s pen pal, especially to Toby and Tim. If she accidentally let that slip, God knows if Tim would start to suspect if she was

that so? Oh well, whatever.” He shrugged in a manner

by his other question. “Oh, right, Tina, do

flashed across her eyes. “Why

nostalgic.” He took a sip of tea and smiled while she was frustrated and angered by the ambush. Why would a grown-up

kept a smile on her face and replied, “Of course, our first encounter was the day

gently tapped his fingers on the table and

the smile on her face almost fell apart. Clutching her hands, she suppressed the panic in her and

ago, when they first met, he excitedly told

he said it was fine; after all, that was only their second encounter. From the clue, she guessed that their ‘first encounter’ must be the time she had ‘saved him’. Therefore, it was impossible

into a smile. “Of course, you’re right—our first encounter

oblivious to the change in his tone and breathed an enormous sigh of relief. Out of nowhere,

almost kill him for the anxiety he stirred. More than that,

he implying? Why is he suddenly asking me those questions? Could he have found out that I was faking my identity as his ‘savior’, and he is now trying to sound

his savior had saved him. She was even more clueless about the situation in which he

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