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Love Under Lockdown Book 4

Chapter One - Dean

From the moment the plane’s tires touched down on the tar sense of dread I was back home in New York City and not for any reason I wanted to be

Plus, there was the crisis that the world was in, and New York was the epicenter of the virus If it wasn’t for my money, there was no way I could set foot on A in onlines and the likely-hood of quarantine I couldn’t do that, not yet I had a promise to fulfill first

There were soin London The lack of snow for a start Sure, there was the rain, but a drizzle never kept an affair fro as far as I are My accent was considered char rather than a punchline as it was inabout being fro Ah I did eventually acquire a pretty close approximation of an upper-class British accent

Britain, or at least the England portion of it, also had five meals a day The standard three plus two so-called 'tea-tiht lunches And no one looked at you sideways for having sausages and bacon at breakfast

They also had respect for their elders, dagnabbit! I was only thirty-three, yet kids in their late-teens would routinely call me 'sir' It was both a wonderful tip of the hat and a terrible reile mortality in the same three-letter word Not that death was far away fro these turbulent times

Aside fro that made London so much more tolerable was the nearly endless list of people who did not live there My asshole brother and my bastard dad, for example My ruthless social cli into oldthe aristocracy All nowhere to be found a the skyscrapers and spires of Olde London Town

The problehost in the room was my beloved sister, Simone Not only did she not live in London, or indeed New York As a result of recent events, she was no longer living on the physical plane at all I liked to think about it in s to hurt less

In Sihter, Jessica, whouardianship The coin there o definite sides On the one side was the fact that , even to a fuck up likeidea how to raise a kid Let alone a little girl Simone was always more of a mom to me than our actual

I could have been in a real predicament, but Simone, who knew ed for help The resume that accoorgeous, twenty-three-year-old nanny named Becky Hump

As I got in my limo, I smiled Simone always did have a sense of humor