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Chapter 545

Author: Lean
After Sydney got into the car, Tiffany felt a strange unease creep over her. The man beside her seemed different today. Raymond walked toward the parking space in silence, quiet and reserved.

Tiffany slowed. "I can take a cab home myself."

"I'll drive you." Raymond rarely spoke so little. He pointed toward the black G-Wagon. "Get in."

He did not seem reluctant.

Tiffany touched her red lips with her tongue and opened the passenger door. "Thank you."

She was almost never this polite with him. His distance pushed her into courtesy.

Raymond acted as if he had not noticed. He dipped his head and focused on the road.

Tiffany could not hold back. "Since when did you start acting like Julian?"

Raymond steered with one hand and let out a quiet laugh. "Then what should I act like? Glen?"

There it was, his old attitude resurfacing. Tiffany laughed. "Just like this."

Sharp-tongued, dismissive, arrogant—that was the Raymond from the Hutton family.

He stopped at a crosswalk and turned tow
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