Sage replied, as usual, and asked him to take care of himself and to reach out anytime if he needed
help, like a good and caring boss she was. Jim, on the other hand, was much cuter than his older
brother. His messages had filled up the whole screen. He asked about how she had been doing in
Yathein, told her about winning an MVP for the competition, and showed the gold, sparkly trophy cup to
her. He also asked her when she was going back to the country to fulfill her promise. “This kid…. Sage
thought and smiled. Before the competition, Jim had been training and nothing else. He had only
learned about Sage’s plane accident shortly before the competition. He sobbed and wailed when he
found out.
He wanted to ditch the competition and insisted on flying to Yathein to see Sage
Jim’s international team’s coach could not bear to see that and managed to get in touch with Sage so
she could talk him out of it.
Sage used up all sorts of tricks and took a long time to convince him to stay for the competition. She
was utterly patient. (A few more days. I’ll go to you once I’m back home.)
(Don’t worry, I remember my promise.]
After replying to all the messages, Sage noticed that Jace had sent him some messages as well. She
clicked on his name to find that three messages had been deleted, and one message read, Are you
home?) Jace stared at his fully charged phone, and his eyes were popping out of his sockets. He had
not been able to sleep for the whole night. The veins in his eyes were bloody and visible, almost turning
his eyeballs completely red. Jace did not want to disturb Sage, but at the same time, he was worried
about her safety, so he could not help and send her another message.
However, once the message was sent out, he regretted it and deleted it again, he was worried that she
might find him to be annoying.
He did that three times in total and eventually gritted his teeth and settled on one last message without
deleting it.
That combination of being careful, confused, and conflicted was indescribable. Do people change when
they’re in love with someone? Jace did not have an answer All he knew was that if that went on, he
would lose his mind.
He buried his head in his arms and forced himself to calm down. The phone rang at that moment and
vibrated in his palm. Jace looked up and saw that it was Sage. He answered without a second of
hesitation, worried that she might hang up anytime. He got up too aggressively and fell from his bed.
Sage was about to say something when she heard a deep grunt from the other side of the phone. She
frowned and asked, “Are you okay?” “I…I’m okay.” Jace had fallen and hit her tailbone, he was in so
much pain that he saw black. He pulled himself up and said with gritted teeth, “I’m okay. Go ahead.”
What was that? That was strange.
Sage raised her brow and asked, “Did you fall from your bed?” Did she have an all-knowing eye or
something?
Jace’s eyes dilated as he pulled himself up and walked with a limb. “No, of course not. I’m not a kid
anymore.”
“Well.” He quickly changed the subject, “Have you seen the information about Peter that I sent?”
Sage hummed yes in response. “That Peter person was something else. If he really was the man Jekyll
was looking for, he’s in for a ride.”
“Yeah.” Jace said, “They’re both evil people who plan on scheming on each other. Let’s just sit tight and
observe for now. But my next plan is…” The both of them started planning on ways to get rid of the two
cunning foxes. Getting rid of one was better than none.
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