Helen asked softly, "So may | be frank with you?"
Frank did a double take but soon said quietly, "Yeah."
"I've actually missed you... That's why | wanted to stay. | didn't want to leave you," Helen said and shyly hid her face in his chest.
Kat's male classmates shot him glares of jealousy, but there was nothing they could do—Frank was simply on another level.
Even the car he drove was a rare sight for most of them, and they would have no hope of having a beauty throw herself into their
arms.
Soren was especially snorting as he glared at Frank in jealousy, though he soon had an idea.
At the stime, Frank was laughing and teasing Helen. "Tut, tut... How shocking is this? Ms. Helen Lane, CEO of Lane Holdings
whom every Rivertonian reveres as an ice queen, saying something like that to a bum like me. Who would ever believe that? I'm so
touched... I've truly been blessed..."
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ran into.
Just then, the front door of the bar was kicked open, and a short, stocky bald man strode in.
"Who the hell bullied my boys?" he barked pompously, holding a black steel club with six goons dressed in black.
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