Mason responded lightly after Ava was done talking.

“I’m coming over right now.”

However, he didn’t leave immediately. Instead, he touched Zoe’s cheek lightly. It wasn’t warm like before. In fact, it was rather cold.

He said in a deep voice, “I need to go to the hospital. You should go ahead and head to bed.”

Zoe stayed silent.

Grabbing his coat from the bed, he put it on and leaned down to touch her cheeks again before leaving.

It was a windy autumn night.

The moment he had left, she relaxed and started panting lightly.

It was a good thing Ava called when she did. Luckily, Mason had to leave because something happened to Lilith. Otherwise, she might’ve just given in to his tender moves and brought pain and misery to herself.

Sliding off the makeup table, she looked at both the business card as well as the diary and tucked them away.

All of her youthful memories were in that diary.

She might have hated Mason intensely, but never once had she thought to throw her d