A Cue For Love

A Cue for Love Chapter 879

The Man In The Silver Mask Part Four

Natalie’s eyes narrowed sharply to a slit the instant his voice trailed off, and it took a while for her to compose herself.

“You have to be kidding me, surely. Am I right, Mr. York?”

“Did I give the game away?” Knowing that that might have exceeded her boundaries, Samuel accepted the opportunity she provided to backpedal.

“Whatever that was, I’m sorry to say that I wasn’t amused.” Natalie’s slender brows bunched up in seriousness. “I am quite sincere about repaying you, but may I ask that you not try to have a laugh at my expense? The affair of the heart is an extravagance that I can neither afford to deal with nor clamor after, ever again.”

Once bitten, twice shy.

That episode with Samuel had stung her so badly that just the very thought of it had her hurting.

Though Natalie’s visage was pretty much bereft of emotion, Samuel was nonetheless able to sense through his silver mask that she was merely putting on a brave front.

and caress her lovely face, which made

Mr. York,

extending a bow toward

silhouette drift away from view, the knuckles that clung to his sides wound themselves

Natalie returned to her own place, it

in was to head upstairs to check on her five children. She could not help but be amused by the haphazard postures they had adopted on their own beds amidst their slumbering and collected herself enough to tuck in their

she had endured prior dissipated as soon

not resist smiling, for in spite of everything, there was the

the time she was done attending to

spent enough time in the kitchen to allow the dough to set, her own face

was of many things, the

arts and her own lack thereof then snuck up on her. Akin to a fine needle of steel,

her mind made up about not thinking about him, those intrusive inclinations of hers kept barging in against her will. It was as though they had taken on a life of their

unable to accomplish anything without Samuel? She refused to allow herself

of scissors, Natalie unsealed a pack of yeast with the

saw Natalie in action, she immediately called on her to desist, “Oh my, Ms. Nichols. What are you