However, seeing that Rachel Bailey had accepted him and given him a chance to pursue her, he generously decided not to hold a grudge against his sometimes truly sinister, scalp-tinglingly devious boss anymore.
Hansen Ruiz and Rachel Bailey both thanked the owner of the small shop—after all, with this outcome, the shop owner had played a part in helping them. The shop owner was a warm-hearted person, and to him, letting Rachel Bailey use the phone was a trivial matter, which he had forgotten as soon as he turned around. Now being profusely thanked by them both, he started feeling a bit embarrassed.
Later, when Hansen Ruiz insisted on paying for the phone call, the owner, unable to refuse, allowed Hansen Ruiz to pay fifty cents.
Fifty cents?
