Richard was confused. “Are you sure? That boy actually knows how to like someone?”


    “Just wait and see. That Miss Walton must be someone special to him.”


    With just a few lines, the two of them had already decided who Leopard liked, especially Jasmine–when it came to Leonard, she saw everything clearly.


    After all, he was her son. How could she not know him?


    He had always been this wa


    Since he was a child, he’d avoid problems the moment they appeared. He only got worse as he grew up, not even as lovable as he


    was when he was little.


    After leaving the house, Leonard just wandered around outside.


    It wasn’t like he had anything important to do, but staying in that room made him feel off.


    His mother’s gaze had made him ufortable all over<b>. </b>


    Her words kept echoing in his mind.


    Did he really like her?


    The thought alone made Aurora’s every expression and smile rey vividly in his mind like a film.


    Frame by frame, it all became incredibly clear.


    By the time Leonard realized what was happening, he noticed he had already begun paying close attention to every little move and expression of Aurora without even realizing it.


    It turned out his mind had long engraved the image of her deep within.


    He let out a small cough, trying to shake off those thoughts.


    Then he reminded himself–Aurora was married. He couldn’t just intrude on her life.


    His gaze dimmed.


    With a sigh, he headed toward the studio, hoping to clear his head with work.


    After wrapping up her tasks, Aurora nced at the time and was surprised to see it wasn’t even time to clock out yet.


    But she had alreadypleted everything for the day.


    Since that was the case, she figured she might as well take the rest of the day oft.


    Aurora returned home in high spirits, more than an hour earlier than usual.


    She thought the house would be empty, but the moment she opened the door, she heard Wendy’s excited voiceing from her


    <b>100 </b>


    “Wow, Lukey, you really know so much! You’re amazing!”


    “I’m so jealous of you. I totally admire you!”


    Wendy’s loud and unfiltered ttery flowed straight into Aurora’s cars like water.


    She hade in with a faint smile still on her <b>face</b><b>, </b>but the moment she heard those words, her saulle froze.


    An unexinable difort settled in her chest.


    She didn’t know why, but her first instinct


    stinct was to lighten her stepe


    Her body moved even faster than her thoughts, quietly making her way toward the sound.


    She reached Wendy’s room and saw the door half open, not fully slut.


    <b>And </b>there he was the same man who had just promised her sighing yesterday–sitting openly in another woman’s bedroom.


    Wendy was dressed in a tight professional outfit, her chest full and prominent, boldly pressed against his arm.


    But Lucas sat there <b>as </b>if he hadn’t noticed a thing, calmly seated at the desk, his right hand moving asionally, as if he were sketching something.


    Aurora couldn’t see clearly <b>what </b>he was drawing, but the air between them was unmistakably intimate,


    Wendy’spliments didn’t stop–over–the–top as they were, Lucas didn’t say a word to push her away.


    He simply continued with what he was doing.


    From where Autora stood, she could clearly see Wendy’s body learng into Lucas, and beneath her skirt, those long, pale legs stretched out straight.


    Something cracked open


    Inside Aurora, leaving a cold, hollow ache in her chest, like a gaping hole filled only with freezing wind


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