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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.

dodge the call, but Elaine’s move was quick and solved the problem. With that, I

in a

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

liquor. Even after all those drinks, she was still

telling me about all the romantic stuff her ex did. Elaine said,

he even promised to

kept talking, and I quietly listened, helping her

entrance of the apartment building, its headlights cutting through

beams landed right across the path we needed to take

as I looked up and spotted the car, my heart started

parks with their headlights on? It’s

the side, making

past the car,

face appeared under the dim streetlights, his

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giving me that look that said I’d

phone.

already clinging to my arm, groaning that she felt sick

I didn’t even bother with Edward–just

over the toilet, throwing up for quite a while. Then she shrugged off her

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