Chapter 129

I closed my eyes and sighed:

“I understand. You don’t want me to think that you feel like you owe me something and that last night was like the eight million at the beginning, a kind of reward. That all ‘this’ is part of that. I don’t think so; you are not one of those who do things out of pity, Lai, you know well what the difference is between honor and pity,” I said, trying to express myself as best as possible. “I think two years ago you went home to your family, and it was good that you did. And you came back with the kids the next year, and the next. We both left something up in the air, I know, but it wasn’t the time or the place, was it?”

He nodded his head, slowly.

“I didn’t understand it, but I still wanted to go back. I always wanted to come back,” he confessed to me.

I smiled against his hair; my pulse jumped when I heard that.

“It was a conflict of interest,” I murmured. “It would have been wrong.”

“No, it wouldn’t have been bad. It ju