A New Rumor

"You don't have to, let the maids prepare it."

"It's okay. If it's just like that, I can do it."

"But I don't have much time, and I'd rather spend it hugging you than watching you prepare my suitcase like this."

Vivi, who was putting Darren's things into the suitcase, stopped what she was doing after hearing what the man said to her. She turned her head to Darren, who immediately stretched out his arms from the sofa in the corner of the room where he was sitting.

"Come here," Darren called. "Let me give you a big hug before I go."

Vivi answered Darren's call and walked over to the man. There was an empty spot next to Darren where she could sit on the sofa, but experience had made Vivi understand that what Darren wanted right now was not for her to sit next to him but to sit on his lap.

"Oh, God," Darren murmured, his eyes moving slowly to look at every part of Vivi's face as if he wanted to remember it well before he left her. "I'm already d