Sunshine, Souvenirs, and One Less Cheating Boyfriend

My boyfriend, Leon Kramer, goes on a ten-day trip.

When he comes back, he suddenly makes a casual remark as we lay in bed after an intimate session in bed.

He says, "I've never noticed how fair you are."

After he falls asleep, I take a look at the photo gallery on his phone.

There are hundreds of photos featuring him and the woman he's been with over the last ten days. She has tanned skin and isn't as fair as I am.

I put his phone back without a word.

Actually, my new target isn't as fair as Leon is. I keep quiet about it, afraid of exposing myself.

While we were being intimate, Leon Kramer slipped his hand under my pajamas.

Then, he suddenly raised an eyebrow and said, "Hey, Xandra. I've never noticed before, but you're actually pretty fair."

I froze for a moment. A thought surfaced in my mind, but it was quickly interrupted by what he was doing.

Biting my lip, I thought hazily, "As expected of a younger guy. His stamina is bottomless."

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After he fell asleep, I slipped on my robe and got up.

What Leon said earlier was intriguing. After coming back from a ten-day trip, he came back and suddenly noticed that I was fair.

So, who wasn't fair, then?

Silently, I picked up his phone and unlocked it by entering his birthday. I opened the photo gallery.

I didn't know if he hadn't had time to delete them or just assumed I'd never check his phone, but hundreds of recent photos with another young woman appeared right before my eyes.

Standing on the golden sand before the pyramids, he had his arm around a young woman dressed in a steampunk-style shawl, who was grinning broadly and showing a full set of pearly teeth.

She didn't look very old, as she seemed to be in her early 20s. She wasn't stunning, but she was pleasant-looking enough. The woman had blonde hair, a round face, and big doe eyes. When she smiled, it carried that distinct brightness of youth.

As I kept scrolling, the photos became increasingly inappropriate.

They were in a hotel pool, in front of massive floor-to-ceiling windows, and on a large double bed. When their bodies were intertwined, the young woman didn't seem to mind Leon taking photos of them at all.

Young people nowadays were so incredibly bold.

Most importantly, she had a tanned complexion.

Now, I understood why Leon said I looked fair. He had spent ten full days with her before coming back to me, so of course I'd seem fair in comparison.

I quietly placed the phone back beside Leon's pillow and glanced at him. His brows and eyes were relaxed as he slept soundly. Under the moonlight, his prominent forehead cast deep shadows over his eye sockets, where long eyelashes adorned his closed eyelids.

How nice it was to be young. One could fall asleep the moment their head hit the pillow.

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