Chapter 50. A Good Rival

The next day Kate saw Max. He was gaunt and melancholy. His changes made her feel pain inside.

Sitting on a bench on the campus, looking at Ed standing by the car in the distance and seeing Kate, who was wearing new clothes, Max asked carefully, “Kate, now you and that man live together?”

Kate nodded.

“Sorry,” Max said sorrowfully.

“Don’t say that. Everything will be over soon.” She used these words that she wasn’t even sure of herself to comfort her brother. The term three years emerged in her mind.

“Is he good to you?”

She nodded.

“Does he have a family?”

She was startled. She never thought of that. Maybe. She remembered seeing the ring on his finger, but he hadn’t worn it recently. She was not sure when he stopped wearing it.

Max sighed, “I searched online. No valuable information is found about him. He is mysterious.”

The clamor on the football field was in contrast with the silence of the brother and sister.

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