章 107: Lured (1)

Seeing that his reaction was way more nonchalant than she would ever have guessed, she sighed in relief. "I was worried that you would be devastated if Jaime, who is an outsider, did anything to Samantha. Since you don't care, I will be on my way back."

"Stay." He turned to look at her. It was more of an order than a request, and she had no choice but to stop in her tracks.

"Okay… is there anything you need me to help you with?" She slowly made her way to him and sat down when he patted the space beside him.

Pulling her closer to him, he cupped her face as he gently caressed her cheek with his thumb.

"These past few weeks have been quite troublesome. So troublesome that if I tried to do everything on my own, I'm sure I would have messed everything up. Thank you for helping me through it." He gazed into her hazel eyes deeply.