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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.

call, but Elaine’s move was quick and solved the problem. With that, I didn’t have

in a dilemma

was almost midnight, and to be safe, Lfigured I’d

Even after all those drinks,

wouldn’t stop telling me about all the romantic stuff her ex did. Elaine

promised to take

quietly listened, helping her downstairs to

Rolls–Royce sat silently at the entrance of the apartment building, its headlights cutting through

the path we needed to

looked up and spotted the car, my heart started thudding in my

who parks with their headlights on? It’s hurting my eyes,” Elaine grumbled,

to the side, making sure the headlights wouldn’t shine in

I walked past the car, the

striking face appeared under the dim streetlights,

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look that said I’d crossed the line by ignoring his calls

phone.

him a quick glance, but Elaine was already clinging to my arm,

bother with Edward–just hurried

up for quite a while. Then she shrugged off her coat,