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Elaine clearly noticed it too. She squinted her tipsy eyes at me, teasing, “Ms. Murphy, is there a fox chasing after you? What kind of wolf is it–the biting kind, the devouring kind, or the protective kind?”

“You’re drunk. Just a client, that’s all,” I replied, trying to keep my cool.

Elaine blinked in surprise. “Calling a client a fox is kind of weird.”

gave a faint smile. “Nothing weird about it. Some clients are tougher to handle than any fox.”

Elaine immediately nodded in agreement. “Totally. The ones I’ve run into are even tougher than foxes–they’re basically

bears.”

On the outside, I kept my cool, but my heart was pounding. ‘Edward’s back in the United Kingdom?‘

Just then, my phone started ringing again. I ignored it, but Elaine snatched it up and turned it off. “Seriously, what time is it? Do they have any manners? Who calls someone about business in the middle of the night? Ms. Murphy, you let them get

away with too much. If it were me, I’d have cursed them out already, she snapped.

I had no idea what to say.

It was not that let him get away with too much; it’s just one of Edward’s annoying habits–he always liked to call me in

the middle of the night.

debating how to dodge the call, but Elaine’s move was quick and solved the problem. With that, I didn’t

a

almost midnight, and to be safe,

liquor. Even after all those drinks, she was still surprisingly

telling me about all the romantic

ski. And… he even promised to take me on a

I quietly listened, helping her downstairs

at the entrance of the apartment building, its headlights cutting through

the path we

up and spotted the car,

their headlights on? It’s hurting my eyes,”

making sure the headlights wouldn’t shine in

past the car,

under the dim streetlights, his expression aloof and

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gaze on me, giving me that look that said I’d crossed the line by ignoring

phone.

Elaine was already clinging to my

didn’t even bother with Edward–just hurried Elaine inside the

hunched over the toilet, throwing up for quite a while.