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.

to reach out and caress her lovely face, which

you’ve nothing else for me, Mr. York, I shall like to take

extending a bow toward Samuel, Natalie about-faced

view, the knuckles that clung to his sides wound themselves so tightly that they started

time Natalie returned to her own place,

thing she did when she got back 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 little hands and feet tidily under

as soon as she

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

the time she was done attending to the children, and since she was no longer fatigued, she

she had not even spent enough time in the kitchen to allow the dough to set, her

of many things, the talent for

disparity between that man’s mastery of the culinary arts and her own lack thereof then snuck up on her. Akin to a

of hers kept barging in against her will. It was as though they had taken on a life of

She refused

yeast with the intent of

was in the process of wrapping an apron around herself. When she saw Natalie in action, she immediately called on her to desist, “Oh my, Ms. Nichols. What are you doing