"This is the first time—and the last."

That's what Asher Keating told her, cold-faced and buttoning his shirt, after one night he never should have had.

Leah Sinclair was no one. A broke college student buried in debt after her grandmother's surgery, selling her evenings at a high-end escort club just to survive.

She wasn't supposed to end up in his bed.
He wasn't supposed to come back.

But he did.

After the second time and the third, Leah cursed viciously in her heart: "Damn man! You really can't trust a word men say."

Many years later, Asher looked at Leah sleeping beside him and sighed to himself: "Sure enough, you shouldn't be with the same woman more than three times, or you'll really be in for it."

Was it possession... or affection?

A choice that began as a transaction but became true love, with only the wish... to never forget their original intentions.

The words made Ruth Hughes's legs give out, and she collapsed. Theodore Keating reached out to steady her, only to find he had no strength himself. Mabel Grant was the first to sprint toward the shore.


Brandon Jacobs grabbed Theodore Keating to steady him. "Theodore! Hold on! Call a doctor! Asher will be okay!"


With that, he also ran toward the shore. Theodore Keating managed to help Ruth Hughes up. "Asher will be fine. I… I'll go check. You wait here for me!"


Tears streamed down Ruth Hughes's face, but she forced herself to her feet and followed Theodore Keating toward the shore as doctors and nurses rushed past with a stretcher.


Asher Keating had already passed out. Leah Sinclair ran back, following the stretcher. Seeing her daughter's disheveled state, Mabel Grant's tears finally fell. She rushed forward and hugged her tightly. "Leah, are you all right?"


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