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“So prag, but you both would have assue myself If I did, do you think I would have worked so hard at changing you?”

“So, that’s it? Things go on like always?”

“No,” Beatrice uttered with veheive me another chance, I will do better now”

“So, you have changed” Could Chanel believe her?

“I’ve acknowledged the true cost of hter It’s too much”

“I don’t know if I can ever trust you to love me”

“I understand that and I don’t expect weekly hter dates”

“I don’t have time” Chanel realized how harsh that sounded after she said the words, and she winced

Her ave her a wry smile “Your time is spoken for, but maybe we could try for more often than once every couple of months”

“Let’s see if we canplans for ood, but Chanel had two decades of herin her memories

Beatrice nodded and then she did yet another out-of-character gesture, opening her ar When Chanel didn’t immediately move forward to accept, her mother took the initiative

Chanel responded with their nor embrace, but her mom pulled her close in a cloud of her favorite Chanel No 5 perfuht “I love you, Chanel, and I’m very proud of the woman you’ve become I’m so very, very sorry I wasn’t a better mother”

Chanel sat in stunned silence for several seconds before returning the embrace

“You don’t think I’ainst her mother’s neck

Still not ready to see the older woman’s expression in case it wasn’t kind

But BeatriceChanel to hter You are h for that man You are all that he needs Now you need to believe that if you’re going to be happy with him”

“It’s only been a month, Mom”

“Your dad proposed on our third date”

The synergy of that took Chanel’s breath away Demyan hadn’t proposed on their third date, but he’d told her then that they were starting soot nant with me”

“I was pregnant, yes, but we’d already planned to get inal plan was to do it after he finished his degree”