“I don't want to hurt you as my son once loved you. So, please don’t bring out the beast in me. Be real, and live your life with transparency, make-up girl,” Elora further added these words into Natasha’s ears. “Don't play with people's life for your own amusement. Life isn’t about impressing others and being impressed by them. It isn’t about getting revenge for every little hiccup you get, either. Life is too short to do all that worthless shit. If you only hold poison on your face and in your heart, it is going to really hurt you the most one day. I’m not saying this for my son’s sake but purely for your sake.” Only after saying these words, Elora let go of Natasha’s shoulders and said aloud, “Anyway, it’s nice to finally meet and talk to you like this. You really look pretty now that I can see you in the flesh. I can see why my son—”Natasha completely ignored her and went back to her table. Instead of sitting down, she grabbed her purse and left the restaurant, despite her mother

Regan and Russell’s eyes met. Russell had bigger eyes compared to his grandfather.Russell obviously remembered who he was. Did the bouquet belong to him? He wondered. He then put the bouquet on a table and quickly rushed up the stairs. “Let me help you, sir.”If someone offered help, Regan would have yelled at them saying he’s not that old yet, but because it was Russell, he did not say anything.Russell held Regan’s left arm with both of his hands and helped him climb down the stairs slowly.After coming down, Regan decided to sit at the table Russell had kept the bouquet at. He put the walking stick on the same table and exhaled audibly. “Only ten years ago, I could run up and down the stairs like a king, but now… my knees feel stiff. And my back feels like it might give up any second. Using the stairs becomes not just tiring but also a scary thing to pull off. The only good thing about it is that I’m sure I won’t live another five years, so I don’t have to suffer this old life for

Elora was muttering something angrily to herself as Russell entered the room. She stopped talking suddenly and looked at him. To her shock, he was holding a bouquet. “W-What’s that?”For a second, her heart trembled.“Someone I know gave it to me,” Russell said and put the bouquet on the table. But he plucked one rose. “Though I don’t understand why his daughter seemed to have rejected it. Maybe she doesn’t like red roses like you?”Elora’s heart started beating faster. She didn’t like red roses because they reminded her of blood, but she loved blush pink roses. Russell knew that. However, Regan didn’t.“How did you know that old man? What did he tell you?” Elora asked, sitting frozenly as Russell came up to her.“He’s someone I met through a friend. We didn’t talk much. He told me his past and his regrets,” Russell raised his hand and put the rose forward toward her.Elora didn’t know what to do. Was she supposed to take it, knowing that it was bought by Regan? But Russell would get

The woman who taught her how to walk;The woman who made her smile;The woman whose smile she believed was brighter than a rainbow;The woman she grew up thinking to be more beautiful than any flower in the world;The woman she put before any treasure ever existed in the world or in her imaginations;The woman whose husband she believed to be part of the bones that made her spine;The woman whose husband’s blood she believed also flowed in her;This woman named Charlotte now became a big thorn in Kyra’s heart.As much as Kyra tried to forgive and forget the biggest of lies that Charlotte made, for the sake of their bond, Kyra now had another reason to feel hatred toward her mother now.She was driving home very fast in her Alpha Wolfe car, which was in auto-pilot mode because she was so upset she was not in the right condition to be driving now, definitely not at this speed.Despite traveling at a high speed, the car did not make a single mistake. It was able to bring Kyra home in opt

After checking his weight in the weighing machine, Russell used the foot massager mat for a minute and found it very stimulating as well as relaxing.He left the car there and began to explore the place on foot. He came across a tripartite shop where one could choose to shoot in three ways: Bows, guns, and darts.Russell chose the bows because the quality of the bows were quite good, and he never held a bow before. The arrows had blunt tips, which was expected. He only had to pay only one dollar for every attempt. A deer hologram was made to run around in the square room right before his eyes, and he had to shoot it.Russell quickly shot at the deer when it briefly stopped and looked at him, but the arrow grazed past its back. “Ah! Just missed it!”“You can try again, sir,” the worker, who was a pretty young lady, said. “You can use the VR goggles if you want.”“VR goggles?” Russell looked at her a bit confusedly. But then she gave him a pair of goggles.“It helps you focus on the dee