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The 200 dors were left there on purpose by Tracy–enough to buy some food or to help Ronald if he needed to leave on his own.
Ronald picked up the money and, for some reason, let out a quietugh.
<i>She’s </i><i>barely </i><i>able </i><i>to </i><i>afford </i><i>a </i><i>decent </i><i>ce</i>, <i>yet </i><i>she’s </i><i>kind </i><i>enough </i><i>to </i><i>leave </i><i>200 </i><i>bucks </i>for <i>a </i><i>stranger </i><i>she’s </i><i>known </i><i>for </i><i>less </i><i>than </i><i>a </i><i>day</i>.
<i>Does </i><i>she </i><i>treat </i><i>everyone </i><i>this </i><i>way</i><i>? </i>
Two dimples showed on his pale cheeks, making Ronald look like a kid who’d always lived in sunshine, never knowing any darkness.
Leaving the rented spot, Tracy headed straight to the nearest police station.
She had nned to just walk in, but right at the entrance, she ran into Chris.
Seeing her looking so worn out, he quickly asked, “Tracy, are you okay?
“I was going to pick you up at the hospital yesterday, but then I found out you were kidnapped. I tried to follow, but those kidnappers were too fast, so I lost you.
“I stayed up all night looking for you. Where did you go?”
He looked tired and worn, like he’d been searching nonstop.
But those shoes–so clean–made Tracy skeptical.
At the graduation pool party, Norris told his bodyguards not to let her leave the water. Yet somehow Chris managed to get her out safely.
Thugs kept causing trouble at her job, and the police didn’t help. But whenever Chris showed up, he pulled her out of danger.
She’d been kidnapped in a confusing mess, and Chris just happened to appear and “tirelessly” look for her all night.
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This whole “hero <i>saving </i><i>the </i>girl” act<i>—</i><i>he </i>never seems <i>to </i>get tired of it, huh?
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A small smile tugged at Tracy’s lips as she looked down. “I thought nobody wanted me anymore.”
Her voice was soft and full of pain, as if she saw Chris as her only support.
Chris’s eyes shed, and he quickly said, worried, “How could you think that?
“Even if the whole world turns its back on you, I’ll stand by you.”
He opened his arms to hug her, but Tracy stepped back.
She stared right into Chris’s deep eyes, as if she was trying to see through him. “Are you serious?”
“Of course!” Chris said confidently. “You deserve the best. The Jackmans are idiots to have abandoned you.”
His words and expression were full of feeling. If Tracy were a na?ve girl dreaming of fairy–tale love, maybe she’d believe him.
Her eyes dropped, and she smiled softly.
Only the Jackmans and kidnappers knew she’d been abandoned. She never told Chris.
She didn’t call him out or ask why he hadn’t called the police when he saw her being kidnapped. Instead, she went along with his words. “Mr. Woodward, you’ve been way too good to me.
“Even the Jackmans haven’t treated me as well as you have.”
Hearing that, Chris’s heart jumped with joy.
<i>If </i><i>I’d </i><i>known </i>that harsh move would work so well, <i>I </i>wouldn’t have wasted so much time and energy driving her to and from work!
He was about to say more when Tracy suddenly changed her tone.
“I get how you feel, Mr. Woodward, but you’re the only son of the Woodwards, and I’m just an ordinary person. We’re not right for each other.”
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The trust she just gave him vanished, reced by a distant look in her eyes. “Even if you don’t mind, your parents definitely won’t approve.”
Chris almost froze.
We haven’t even officially gotten <i>together</i>, <i>and </i><i>she’s </i>already thinking <i>about </i><i>my </i><i>parents</i>?
I guess it makes <i>sense</i>. <i>The </i><i>Jackmans </i><i>rejected </i><i>her</i><i>, </i>and <i>if </i><i>she </i><i>doesn’t </i>find support soon, she’ll never have a good <i>life </i>with wealth <i>and </i><i>honor</i><i>. </i>
Chris smiled more gently. “Don’t worry. My parents won’t oppose me.”
After all, he never really nned to be with this girl, who wasn’t even rted to the Jackmans. What he did had Liam’s blessing, so of course, his parents wouldn’t object.
To make sure Tracy believed him, he added, “My parents would definitely like a beautiful, kind, and strong girl like you.”
Finally, a smile showed on Tracy’s face. “Really? When do I get to meet them?”
Meeting them meant she could finally ask about Derek and address the bitterness and obsession he never let go of, even in death.
Chris hid his contempt behind a gentle look and promised, “Don’t worry. I’ll definitely take you someday.”
Tracy didn’t really believe him, but since she’d asked, she knew she’d get the chance.
Instead of going to the police station, she followed Chris’s lead and asked him to help take her back to the Jackmans.
No one in the Jackmans had cared at all about her kidnapping from start to finish.
When she got to the vi’s doorstep, she ran into Liam, who was just about to head
out for a race,
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