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.

on my mood change, Rebecca changed the subject and

returned to the palace after being away all day, he handed

on," he

raised my brows at his

"What for?"

a surprise for you," he told

put the

scents and sounds that

blindfold. When I adjusted my

by 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 read:

Elliot, a crease

this?" I asked, my voice coming out in a

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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