A Life Debt Repaid

Sam remained nonchalant. “It’s no hurry. I’ve been preparing for half a month.”
He did not seem affected that he would be leaving the country along with his friends and family.
“When are you coming back?” Ryan asked.
Sam shrugged. “No idea-it depends on how things go. I’ll be back early if things go smoothly. If they don’t, who knows?”
Ryan had more to say but realized he had nothing more to say.
He took Quinn’s hand just then.
Quinn seemed to regain her senses just then, and she pursed her lips, a tear rolling off the corner of her eye.
She hid it well.
“Come on,” Ryan told her.
She nodded, not saying a word to Sam even in parting.
Sam did not look at her, because he knew he could only watch her leave when she had gone far with Ryan, which he did.
Inr reality, there were plenty of talented representatives in Saunderia-Sam did not have to go abroad himself.
Still, he offered to do it to stay away from them.
As the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind-just like now.
He had no idea how many times he could take seeing them like this after all.
Sam headed abroad. It was only after he arrived that he informed John and the others that he left, and it would be after a while
that he would return.
Everyone was surprised, but it was somehow easy to understand.
That was why they told him nothing aside from to take care of himself and to remember to come home when he had the time.
Only Zoe meddled a little, texting Sam privately: [What are you thinking, leaving just like that?! Are you giving up already?! I’ve
never seen you so spineless,

Sam Saunders! If I were you, I’d be fighting Ryan to death!]
Sam: [I’d just humiliate myself because I’d never win.]
Zoe: [How would you know you wouldn’t? Do you lack confidence toward yourself or toward Quinn?]
Sam: [Both.]
Zoe: [Are you just giving up on the proposal you planned so meticulously?!}
Sam: [Yep.]
Zoe: [I’m done. I don’t even have words to describe you now!
How the eff can I make you understand that Quinn loves you, not Ryan?!]
Sam: [Let me put you this way-1 never held a candle against Ryan. Now that he’s disabled, he has another cause to tie down
Quinn.]
Zoe: [Are you for real? Giving up just because you’re worried you’re troubling Quinn?]
Sam: [Doesn’t matter now. Anyway, I’d like to thank you and Cordy for helping me before. Just wish me luck in finding a new girl
now.]
Zoe: [Whatever, idiot!]
Sam smiled exasperatedly as he read Zoe’s text-he was indeed stupid.
Why else would he fall for Quinn, when Ryan owned her? He obviously knew nothing would come out of it!