A Cue for Love (Natalie and Samuel)

Chapter 879 The Man In The Silver Mask Part Four

Natalie’s eyes narrowed sharply to a slit the instant his voice trailed off, and it took a while for her to compose herself.

“You have to be kidding me, surely. Am I right, Mr. York?”

“Did I give the game away?” Knowing that that might have exceeded her boundaries, Samuel accepted the opportunity she provided to backpedal.

“Whatever that was, I’m sorry to say that I wasn’t amused.” Natalie’s slender brows bunched up in seriousness. “I am quite sincere about repaying you, but may I ask that you not try to have a laugh at my expense? The affair of the heart is an extravagance that I can neither afford to deal with nor clamor after, ever again.”

Once bitten, twice shy.

That episode with Samuel had stung her so badly that just the very thought of it had her hurting.

Though Natalie’s visage was pretty much bereft of emotion, Samuel was nonetheless able to sense through his silver mask that she was merely putting on a brave front.

He wanted so badly to reach out and caress her lovely face, which made it a massive struggle for him to refrain from doing so.

me, Mr. York, I shall

a bow toward Samuel, Natalie about-faced and

silhouette drift away from view, the knuckles that clung to his sides wound

to her own place, it was already five

in was to head upstairs to check on her five children. She could not help but be amused by the haphazard postures they had adopted on their own beds amidst their slumbering and collected herself enough

she had endured prior dissipated as soon as she laid her eyes on that adorable

could not resist smiling, for in spite of everything, there was the certainty of having a home wherever

light of dawn had already broken beyond the windows by the time she was done attending to the children, and since she was no longer fatigued, she decided to

she had not even spent enough time in the kitchen to allow the dough to set,

of many things, the talent for

man’s mastery of the culinary arts and her own lack thereof

intrusive inclinations of hers kept barging in against her will. It was as though they had taken on a life

unable to accomplish anything without Samuel? She

a pack of yeast with the intent of emptying its contents into the

around herself. When she saw Natalie in action, she