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Chapter 235

Author: Lean
I didn't hear everything clearly, but I understood clearly what he was trying to express.

A part of me that had been calm for a long time almost collapsed again.

Nails scraped across the palm.

A subtle pain awakened a hint of rationality. "Is it dry now?"

Ryan seriously ran his fingers through my hair a few times. "Yeah, it's almost done."

The sound of the hairdryer disappeared, leaving the room quiet.

I nodded. "Okay... thank you."

Suddenly, he hugged me from behind, his lips against my ear, cautiously and ambiguously probing, "Did you hear what I said, even a little?"

A proud man like him might have been apologizing like this for the first time.

Different from the casually insincere "I'm sorry" in the past, this time, he had truly let go of his dignity.

I wanted to surrender at this moment, but I was too afraid, afraid of repeating the same mistakes, afraid of being like a moth to a flame.

Suppressing the bitterness in my heart, prompted by reason, I said, "I heard. But, R
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