afraid he would bring up the
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Leon planeed at the top of Kelly’s dark little lead, wondering if he had taken the joke a bit too far the looked downright terrified.
Amand in ospm, Kelly felt thirsty and left leg study to get some wateı.
Leon was in the living prom, siffing resus–legged on the ranget with his back aga
the couch. He was wearing silver–framed glasses and reading a book intently. It was the first time Kelly had seen him wearing glasses. The silver frames rested on his ligh nese kilder, and the warm light outlined his features, making him
stare for a moment until Lenn suddenly looked up, and their eyes quexpectedly met
His gaze was deep, like ink, as though it could pull one in without eod.
e pretended to stay calmas the nervously said, “I’m just going to get some water.
Leon stood up from the carpet and casually grabbed the water jug from the table. “Let Kelly buried to take it, but her fingertips are identally boudied against the back of his hand. The warmth of his hand made her flinch bark as if she had beenbed
At that moment, Leon had already 1 led the cup with w rand handed it backtofier.
“Thanks” Kelly quickly took it, her lips dry from nervousness the took a sip of water to wet them.
Leon glanced at the time and asked, “What time are you planning to petebed?”
Kelly used to stay up until 1:00 amor 2:00 am, but that was when the worked part studyite all day
at The Sippery and still had to review her studies. Today, she had been
“I’ll warm up a cup of milk for you before bed,”
Leon seemed quite insistent on this nightly milk ritual, Kelly knew it was pointless to retuse, so she nodded obediently.
Her gaze shifted to the book he was reading, and she became curious about what could captivate a university professor so much. If it were an anatomy book, would it be considered first–hand learning material forber?
thable to help herself, Kelly asked, “Whut book are you reading?”
Leoni bent down, picked up the book, and showed it to her. The book was titled “The Pregnancy Bible“.
this was what far was trading so seriously,
*I’m already familiar with the.
e experiences of pregnancy and the changes it brings. I’m just looking into how to adjust a price woman’s diet and maintain her
Kelly struggled to find something to say, “Wut dupter are you on?“.
e abruptly trailed off.
“J just finished Chapter Seven The neat chapters.” Leon flipped the Book to the bookmarked page as he spoke, then his voice a Curious, Kelly leaned in to glance at the chapter title=“Managing Emotions and Sexual Activity“.
As the saying went, cunosity really did kill the cat. Right now, Kelly wanted to slap hienelt. Leonclosed the book, his expressiouralım. “You should test eatly. You love class com.” With the perfect opportunity to exit, she quickly dashed off. “Good nigld, Professor Butler,”
In the living room, Leon tropened the book that had berarlosed earlier.
Hack in dare room, Kelly leaned again the door, covering let fare, feeling a bit thisdied. After a moment, ber plone buzzed.
It was a message from Calls Hanley, the inner of The Sippery.
Caleb texted, “Kelly, can you come in for! You’ve taken a few days off, and it’s getting busy at the shop,”
For nearly two years, Kelly’s living expenses had been covered by her past time pod, and she definitely didn’t want to give that up
farherbelly got bigers, she wouldn’t be able to work part time anymore, so she needed to make as much money as possible while she could. She couldn’t just
But she had a feeling that he wouldn’t agree to her working part time, she would her to come up with an excuse.
Belly replied to taleh, then started thinking hard to come up with an excus
