A knot formed in the pit of my stomach.
"I apologize..." I said.
"Were your achievements at the auction just a fluke then? Are you incapable of repainting that portrait?"
"Sir, I-"
"I expect better from my exclusive painters," he scolded, and then he hung up before I could say another word.
I looked at Rebecca who was staring at me with raised brows.
"Why would you turn down the offer?" She asked, curiously.
"I made a promise to Elliot," I told her. "I can't go back on my word."
"Maybe you should speak with him about it.
it anymore. Picking up on my mood change, Rebecca changed the subject and
away all day, he
this on," he
my brows
"What for?"
have a surprise for you," he told
put the blindfold
me away. I could tell from the various scents and sounds that we had wandered outside. Elliot surprised me by lifting me into his arms
he was putting me down and untying my blindfold. When I adjusted my
at the beauties around me and then I noticed a greeting card on a small table in a small pavilion that read: A
crease between my brows
my
hands in his front pockets almost sheepishly. "I figured they were
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