She thought, Larkin would definitely love this.

After all, it was Larkin who had given the photo to the gallery in the first place.

Once the piece was framed, the shop owner wrapped it carefully in a layer of crimson cloth to protect it on the road.

Jessica paid for everything, left the delivery address, and scheduled for it to arrive later that evening.

The papercut was quite large-nearly six feet long-making it impossible to carry home herself.

She'd been up until nearly 2 a.m. last night, then woke at dawn to work on it, finally finishing by late afternoon.

Fortunately, she hadn't lost her touch. If her hands weren't steady, there simply wouldn't have been enough time.

As Jessica stepped out of the framing shop, her phone buzzed with a message from Vince.

"Jessica, I'm outside your building. I came to pick you up-are you not home?"

She hadn't expected Vince to show up in person.

"I'm out, but I'll be back right away," she replied.

"I'll wait for you."

When Jessica arrived home, she found two people standing at her door.

One carried an impressively large bag, while the other struggled with several boxes in his arms.

"Jessica, open up!"

her instantly at ease, the sort of easy charm

no idea what Vince was planning, but she couldn't very well leave her guests

Vince stepped inside and said, "This is the makeup artist I arranged. The boxes have the dress, shoes, and jewelry I picked

so busy finishing Larkin's gift, had completely forgotten

after all-no

phone: "Thank you for

get everything ready, living way out here. Go on, get changed

makeup artist to her

the living room. He'd already spoken to Timothy, asking him not to come by, but the old man had called Timothy directly. Timothy promised he'd arrive right on time

make sure Jessica would be the star of

was a legend

business world, practically

himself he was even a

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he had to admit he

behind Timothy in

of ruthless skill.

really wasn't much that

was curious-was there truly nothing that

Vince could easily guess why: the Lawson family would

to admit

Timothy married her? And if he had, why keep it a

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