Married My Ex's Alpha Uncle

Chapter 21

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.

wanting to talk about it anymore. Picking up on my mood change, Rebecca changed the

to the palace after being away all day,

this on," he

brows at his

"What for?"

a surprise for you," he

I put

anything and then he guided 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 and carrying me the

down and untying my blindfold. When I adjusted my eyes to the new setting, I

roses of all different colors. I gasped at the beauties around me and then I noticed a greeting card on a small table in a small pavilion that

at Elliot, a crease between my

this?" I asked, my

that roses often appear in your paintings... including the one you did of me," he said, shrugging and putting his hands in his front pockets almost sheepishly. "I figured they were your favorite flowers." I was at a loss for words. My heart swelled with gratitude, and I closed the gap between us, kissing him on

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