NovelOnlineChapter 58
Back in the house.
Yvonne felt restless after Samuel left. As the hours slowly ticked past, she lay on the bed, unable to drift into
sleep.
She clutched onto her phone. She watched the seconds trickling into minutes. It turned eleven all too soon.
Usually, she would be asleep by now, since she would go for her morning jog the next day. Why did her eyelids
refuse to close then?
At that moment, Yvonne realized that Samuel was a part of her life that she could not lose. Even though he only
slept on the floor, he held such an important place in her heart.
She wanted to call him and ask when he would be coming back, but he did make it clear that he had something
to do before he left the house. Yvonne did not want to pester him.
Just like that, she stayed awake the whole night. The sky just began to break into dawn when Yvonne finally
heard the clicking of the door. She quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.
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Samuel had never expected to be held up the entire night. He tiptoed into the room and realized that Yvonne
was still sleeping. He released a breath of
relief.
However, he then noticed that her lashes were twitching, and her eye bags had worsened. Dark circles also
ringed her eyes. "Don't tellyou were awake the whole night?" he said with a bitter smile.
A jolt of surprise rang through Yvonne when she heard what Samuel said. She did not want him to know about
that, so she continued to pretend to be sleeping.
Samuel knew that she was faking it, but he did not call her out on it. He lay down on the floor mattress. "A friend
of mine ran into strouble. That's why | was out the whole night," he said, as though he were talking to
himself.
Yvonne had the urge to ask what exactly happened, but she was pretending to be asleep. She would be caught
dead in the act if she said anything.
"There are speople who are worth sacrificing your life for. He taughta lesson today. | won't let
something like that happen to me," Samuel said softly. The worst decision Manfred ever made in his life was to
retire and disappear from his world. He thought that he could live out his days peacefully, but he did not know
that he could not completely wash his hands off the world he had once ruled
over.
Yvonne could not rein it in any longer. She put on a haphazard mask of someone who has just woken up." I'm still
sleeping," she said irritably. "Do you want to be thrown out of the room, with you yapping on like
that?"
Samuel held pillows in his arms and looked at Yvonne on the bed. "Take a day off and rest at htoday," he
said gently.
Shtwanged in Yvonne. Did he already know?
How awkward.
"There's no reason to take leave. Besides, | have an important meeting today. They can't run it without m e. Oh,
but I won't go for the morning jog," Yvonne said.
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Samuel chuckled, then remained silent. If he truly decided to expose her ruse, he would probably be forced to
sleep on the couch.
He got up at 8am and made porridge, waiting for it to cool before waking Yvonne up. He wanted her to get a s
much sleep as she could.
Yvonne was digging into her breakfast when Lydia walked out of her room. She had wanted to question Samuel
about the whole car fiasco last night, but she and her husband had been caught in a night of passion instead.
She had no choice but to postpone the questioning.
"Your uncle and his family are coming to Cloud City today, Yvonne," Lydia said. "Tell your husband to take them
from the station at three in the afternoon."
Yvonne shot her mother a testy look. It was not as if Samuel was not right there. Why could she not tell him
herself?
"Mom, what are you doing?" Yvonne said.
Lydia's attention sidled toward her son-in-law, fuming. "I won't reprimand you about the new car. It's already in
the past, after all," she said. "But you'd better go and admit everything to Grandmother yourself if she ever finds
out about this. Tell her that you forced Yvonne to buy it for you and that it has nothing to do with Yvonne. It's to
prevent her from wrongfully punishing Yvonne." "Sure thing," Samuel replied.
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