No, the lottery ticket is nothing; her hugging him like this is something no amount of money can replace!
Dorian Howards, with excitement, returned Alice Conley's embrace, feeling that all the hardship of catching a flight back to City J before dawn was entirely worth it.
"Alice, do you know how much I've missed you these days?" he murmured. Previously, because she was unwilling to return to Falling City with him to meet his parents, and with the things she said, directly asserting their impossibility, he was really upset, so during those days, until he returned to Falling City, he hadn't reached out to her at all.
He was angry with her, and also with himself—why did he continue to be infatuated with such a heartless girl!
Yet her figure kept lingering in his mind; even after returning to Falling City, he still couldn't shake it off.
