Stanley felt the corners of his lips curve into a faint smile. “Xyla you fool… That’s my blood-related sister.”
On the other side of the line, Xyla Quest froze for a brief moment.
“…What? Sister?”
“Who else could she be? You and my sister are the only ones who I ever behave kindly toward,” Stanley chuckled, a hint of playfulness in his eyes.
Xyla’s heart was suddenly at ease with just that simple explanation.
“She’s just returned from overseas a few days ago. We went shopping that day and had a meal together. I only have one sister and she rarely returns so it was normal for me to want to visit her while she was here.”
Xyla continued to be speechless. The heavy chains that had been binding her heart for the past few days were quickly disintegrating.
Slowly, she felt her breath return to her.
So when they were eating together that day, it was his sister calling? He had just been accompanying his sister all this time and she wasn’t his girlfriend?
How did such a major misunderstanding happen?!
In the next few seconds, Xyla could feel a smile forming on her lips.
Thinking back, if she was his little sister, why did he save her contact name as ‘Little Darling’ on his phone?
He definitely wasn’t the kind of person to do that willingly.
Which meant that his sister must most definitely have saved the contact on his phone and refused to let him change it. Since he cared for her as much as he cared for Xyla, he must have simply went with it.
He was such a loving brother.
“I never knew you had a sister,” Xyla said.
“There wasn’t a real reason to bring her up since you’ve never asked,” replied Stanley.
“I see. I’ll clear up the mess for us then.”
“Alright. I still have some things to attend to at work, so we’ll talk about it when I get back home tonight.”
“Alright.”
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