Carl smiled. “It’s nothing much. I just called to congratulate you. You’re finally free of all the nasty rumors!”
“Thank you.” A smile formed on Sonia’s face as well. Yeah, my name is finally cleared. I feel so much more relaxed now. “It’s all thanks to Tim,” Sonia continued. “This issue wouldn’t have been resolved so quickly if Tim hadn’t left those two videos behind.”
Upon hearing her words, Carl lowered his gaze a little to conceal the disappointment in his eyes. Why did she say that it’s all thanks to Tim? I was the one who uploaded those two videos.
Ding dong! The doorbell rang out of nowhere, and Sonia leaped to her feet. “All right, Carl. I’ll talk to you later. Someone’s here.”
“Who is it?” Carl asked.
Sonia headed toward the door. “I’m not sure. I’ll go take a look.”
opening the door. You need to remember to protect yourself,” Carl reminded in a gentle and
the call ended, Sonia put her phone aside and went to the monitor to check who was her
Sonia?”
answered with
bouquet of roses from the ground. The roses looked freshly cut, and there were
didn’t take the bouquet immediately. Instead, she eyed the deliveryman suspiciously. “I’m sorry, but is this a
it to you,” the deliveryman
more puzzled than ever.
he seemed to recall something just moments later. “There’s a
took a glance at the bouquet to see a card stuck in the middle of the flowers. Only then did she reach her hand out to take the flowers
the door and walked back to the living hall while flipping the card open. There were only a few words written on the
signature at the bottom of the card, but she could clearly recognize the handwriting on the card. It belonged to Toby. Toby is the one who gave these! I thought it was Zane at first. Zane practically gives me tiny presents and flowers every time he sees me after all. I can’t believe my guess was
rather muddled expression formed on her face as she glanced at the flowers in her arms. She was genuinely shocked by his act of giving her flowers.
to her senses and looked at her phone screen,
as she lowered the flowers onto the coffee table before typing her response to him.
his firm and broad chest. His hair was still wet, and droplets of water were still dripping from the tips of it as he hadn’t dried his hair at all. The water droplets trailed his perfect jawline and trickled down his neck to his defined collarbones. Eventually, the water droplets would run
dry his hair. All of a sudden, his phone screen lit up at a corner of his bed. His eyes seemed to light up at the very same moment, and he hastily threw the towel over his
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