Chapter 272

“Why are you … here?” Alyssa was caughtby surprise. She looked adorable and innocent with the freckles on her face and a head of messy hair.

Jameson Schmidt had a smile in his eyes as he pressed his lips together.”Can’t I be your suitor?”

Her lips formed a taut line as she struggled to answer his question. He resolved the awkwardness with a gentle smile that made his question sound like a harmless joke.

“May I take a seat?” asked Jamesongentlemanly.

“Please do,” she replied graciously.

Jameson did not look much different from their first encounter. He looked refined and suave, dressed in a striped emerald couture suit and wearing a pair of gold-

rimmed glasses.

“Ms. Taylor, you are rocking a ratheradorable and unique style today.” He squinted.”You don’t have to act in front of me, though. Just be yourself.”

having you as my

must havewanted to meet me again. I

suggestive

I have beencurious about you since our last meeting. I do wish to meet you again.”She cast a

little, and the hands on his knees

aback, she politely

it’s been a while.”

from decades ago. Jameson felt like a stranger to Alyssa when

with good looks and smooth skin when he was younger.

Alyss a had been the popular kid in

three boys who were all taller than her. From then on, no one

she know that Jameson, through the ups and downs in his later life,

hope she cast into his dark

not just a first love—the term failed to describe her importance to him. She was like

me when I bumpedinto you drunk at

“Yes.”He smiled.

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