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!"

put her instantly at ease, the sort of easy charm that made people want to

idea what Vince was planning, but she couldn't

inside and said, "This is the makeup artist I arranged. The

gift, had completely forgotten about everything

high society gala tonight, after all-no

phone: "Thank you for going to all

out here. Go on, get changed and let the makeup artist work her magic -the

led the makeup artist to

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

sure Jessica would

was a legend

business world, practically

no slouch himself he

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he had to admit

step behind Timothy in

of ruthless skill.

much that

Vince was curious-was there truly nothing that could shake Timothy's

Lawson. Vince could easily guess why: the Lawson family would

probably didn't want to admit that Timothy had married

why had Timothy married her? And if he

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