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The Shy Bride Lucy Monroe 12610K 2023-09-01

“Will it ever be enough? The success you’ve achieved?”

“Funny, Zee asked the sa hu that almost sounded like melancholy

“What did you tell him?”

“That he was just like me”

“Which is not an answer at all”

“I do not know”

She knew Neo did not mean he didn’t knohat he had said, but rather that he did not know if his success would ever be enough

“I’m sorry”

“Now, you sound like you mean it”

“You should be happy hat you have done with your life, proud of yourself, but you’re still striving to prove so I think about”

“Maybe you should”

“Perhaps, but right now, I ah time to have both you andyour schedule for the weekend That coh of her he wouldn’t feel the need to doTuesday

Neo called the nextto re outside He called again after lunch to ask how her current coot it done, she would play it for him over the weekend

She wasn’t at all surprised when the phone that never rang did for the third ti preparations for a solitary meal

“Hello, Neo”

“How did you knoas er and people frouess they don’t keep your kind of hours”

“Speaking of work hours, ot rescheduled Would you like a dinner guest?”

“Hasn’t your housekeeper already prepared your dinner?”

“Whatever Dora made will keep”