Chapter 99 The Birthday Gifts

• Talia might sound cavalier about her moving out of the Mills Residence, but in actuality, there was a strange disappointment that overcame her at that moment, and she couldn't help wishing that she had cut Jasper off sooner.
• In the month or so that followed, Sherry did not try to pick a fight with Talia, and Jasper seemed to have become a distant figure of the past.
• It was funny, Talia thought ruefully, how she and Jasper were staying in the same city but lived as if they had fallen out of each other's orbits altogether—like they were complete strangers.