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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.

gotten her fair share of the short end of the

you’re working on a new TV series. Found

her eyes, surprised by the direct question. “Aren’t you a housewife? Got someone

husbands,” Yolanda smiled. “I wanna start my studio, and I’ve got a talent who’d be perfect

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quite perceptive. Simone was proud, but she hated seeing capable women stuck at

said

like the other Sinclairs, or maybe just

ran most businesses, most everything. For a woman to make it,

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

straight with Simone about the role. Simone

with ambition still has hope. But if she was just living for

cared to dig deeper. But now, she cracked a smile. “Y’know, if the Grants

saw your interviews. You said women should

looked down on showbiz,

quiet–never guessed

what you said, I’ll give you this chance. You’ve got my number–bring your talent directly to me. But keep this quiet, especially around the old folks. Otherwise, you’ll be in

Grant family only married women to be

“Got it.”

let you

doesn’t care what I

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

calm now. She used

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time she visited the Sinclairs, her eyes stayed glued to

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his girlfriend so well–how’d Yolanda,

gonna say anything to him, right?”

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