Julian’s Stand-In Wife

He looked like a miser through and through.

Sue didn’t like him one bit.

“He is definitely not my ex-student!” she cried, aghast.

To make things clear, Sue called her ex-student to ask about his impression of Cecilia.

To her surprise…

“My apologies, Mrs. Chimmery. I didn’t manage to make it to the blind date because I was caught up with something. I’m still stuck in an academic conference right now. I wanted to call you after it ended, but I didn’t expect…”

Sue knew about the academic conference he was talking about. It was an international meeting that only people of relative academic accomplishments could attend.

No one could decide how long the meeting went on for. Everyone at the meeting worked in the same industry, and that was likely the reason that the meeting dragged on longer than expected.

“It’s not your fault,” Sue said understandingly. She didn’t tell him about Cecilia going for the blind date today, and hung up after some small talk.

had always been magnanimous in most things, except

to let go of things

had always been sensible and reasonable. Thus, she

the phone call and turned to Cecilia, her face turning cold. “What’s with that café? They have such good reviews, but they managed to

didn’t like the man in the Cecilia’s photo.

Sue expressed her opinion,

so too quick

terms of their opinions and perspective of the world, they were clearly a

with this,” Sue said with a wave of her hands. She dialed the number of

am Cecilia Jarvis’s mother. I’d like to ask, who exactly is my daughter’s blind date? He’s definitely not the man I introduced! What exactly went wrong with your processes? Shouldn’t

Cecilia was dumbfounded.

because

wasn’t a real teacher, she spoke with

mother was acting in her best interests, but she was a fully-grown adult. She had a good

Otherwise, she would be reprimanded for

to either Sue or Cecilia, someone much more impolite was about