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Yolanda froze for a second. Once, a comment like that would’ve cut deep, but now she stayed calm. “Having kids is all up to Charles. I’ll go with whatever he wants,” she said.

Her obedience seemed to relax Flora. “Good you get that,” Flora smiled. “Take care of Charles, and we’ll treat you right.”

Yolanda said nothing, just kept massaging Flora’s legs. After half an hour, she lowered her head and moved to Flora’s back.

She’d spent two years learning traditional massage, all to keep Flora happy.

Flora finally sat up, satisfied. “You’re good at this. Where’d you learn? C’mon, let’s go down.”

Yolanda bent down and picked up the shoes by the bed for Flora. Then she followed Flora out.

When they reached downstairs, Flora frowned, “Charles still not here?”

Yolanda thought, ‘Maybe he’s tangled up in Sophie’s sheets.’

Flora spun around, her voice sharp. “Why didn’t you come with him?”

“Granny, he’s swamped with work. I didn’t want to bug him about it,” Yolanda replied.

At this point, Flora couldn’t really say anything more. She just pressed her lips together and sat off to the side.

Yolanda saw Simone checking out the flowers in the garden and hurried over. “Aunt Simone,”

she called.

Simone nodded in response, then glanced through the window at Wyatt and Flora in the

room.

thought, ‘Mom’s always favored sons over daughters. Yolanda’s probably gotten her fair share of the short

straightforwardly, “Aunt Simone, I heard you’re working on a new TV series.

question. “Aren’t you a housewife? Got someone

live off their husbands,” Yolanda smiled. “I wanna start my studio, and I’ve got a talent who’d be perfect for this role. Can you

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proud, but she

had said she wanted

like the other Sinclairs, or maybe just different from

to make it, she had to fight through all the

then, because she wasn’t a boy, she never got the love. That made her

the role. Simone couldn’t stand

if she was just

Yolanda before–never cared to dig deeper. But now, she

her gaze. “I only dared say it because I saw your interviews. You said women should reach high, and I

looked down on showbiz, but

shocked again. She’d always thought Yolanda was quiet–never guessed she’d watched those crazy interviews, let

this chance. You’ve got my number–bring your talent directly to me. But

only married women

“Got it.”

let you

cheating. He doesn’t care what I do

help but cough, her emotions complex. She’d known Charles was cheating for a

expect Yolanda to be this calm now.

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visited the Sinclairs, her eyes stayed glued

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his girlfriend so

say anything to him, right?”

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