LOGINLately, no matter which car he drove, he would bring that little bear with him. Only today, he had not.She did not know whether he had forgotten or whether there was some reason he did not want to bring it.Katherine opened the car door, planning to go back to her own place and pack.Roundy nudged
Katherine froze.Then a faint ache spread through her chest, tender and bitter all at once.In her heart, she silently answered him.Because I couldn’t see any hope. I really had no other choice.Mark Winter, you jerk. Who told you to keep your heart so cold and hard all the time? I couldn’t get in.
For example, Mary’s surgery had seemed like an impossible mountain to Katherine. But with one phone call, he had arranged the specialist.Katherine lay there for a long time, slowly calming herself.Talking with her father had passed his anxiety on to her. But lying beside Mark, she quickly relaxed.
At that moment, Katherine was like a little puppy wagging its tail, pitifully hoping Mark would take her in and let her into his bedroom.Mark knew what she was worried about, but he was not in the mood to deal with her.He withdrew his gaze and said without emotion, “Suit yourself.”Then he went in
Of course, Grace did not look down on women for spending her son’s money. In fact, she had always despised stingy men who refused to spend money on women.But using Mark’s money to buy her an expensive gift would have seemed hypocritical. Worse, it would have carried the ugly smugness of someone poo
The break room was already quiet.Any sound slightly louder than a whisper felt as if someone outside might hear it, so Katherine instinctively lowered her voice.“Don’t be mad at me anymore.”She carefully tugged at Mark’s sleeve, waiting for his answer. But as for making it up to him, she was too
Mark glanced at her knowingly several times along the way, but said nothing.That look, as if he had seen straight through her, only made Katherine more nervous.“Stop looking at me,” she said first, turning her head to stare out the window and refusing to look at him again.“The way you look right
“Don’t twist my words into something dirty,” she muttered. “What was the point of all that education?”Mark leaned back in his chair, completely unbothered. “Even people with Ivy League degrees like dirty things.”“Don’t flatter yourself. You didn’t go to Harvard or Yale.” As she said it, Katherine
Katherine was not wrong.For Mark, it naturally was not jealousy.“Let’s go eat.” Seeing that she was still reluctant, Mark thought for a moment and said, “From now on, if you invite me to dinner, I won’t turn you down unless the hospital is on fire. How’s that for sincerity?”“I didn’t ask you to d
Calvin had only found out about Katherine’s gastroenteritis by chance from Daniel.He could not just sit back and do nothing.The moment he thought of Katherine feeling sick and alone in another city, he could not calm down. He kept thinking about her.As it happened, there was a business project in







