I had not answered Ross’s message from the café.No matter what I do, the person I love is you.I had read it once, then turned off the screen.For seven years, I had waited for him to choose me in front of others. In the end, what he called love was something that could be hidden, delayed, traded, and explained away whenever profit required it. He said it was only acting. He said Stockdale needed the cooperation. He said I should understand.I understood too well.That was why I stopped waiting.Three days after I left Stockdale, the Leone family held a private birthday banquet at their estate.By evening, the Leone estate was already bright with lights. Family representatives, councilmen, investors, and business partners arrived one after another. To outsiders, it was Samora Leone’s birthday banquet and the first step toward her formal return to the family’s inner circle.No one knew it was my birthday too.Or rather, the birthday that had always belonged to me had been celebrated un
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