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Chapter 44

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He knew this wasn't all it seemed to be, she sounded like an entirely different person, but deep down, this has always been what he wanted, to be noticed by her, that when she finally sees him as worth her love, he would have measured up to her standard.

But now that he has that, she even came to offer a truce to him. Why does he still feel strange and indifferent about the whole thing?

He left her office after a short casual chat. He could even consider them friends now. But why does friendship feel like that of one with fringe benefits?

He walked past the hallway and took the stairways leading to the ground floor. He wanted to go talk with Alpha Alex.

Then when he was about to take the last turn, he bumped into Becca, who was holding some toiletries in her hands and all of them fell off.

"I am so sorry," he said as he quickly bent down to pick them up for her.

"It's nothing," she also bent down to pick them up, and in the course of that, their fingertips touched.

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