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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.

always favored sons over daughters. Yolanda’s probably gotten her fair share of the short end of

I heard you’re working on a new TV

her eyes, surprised by the direct question. “Aren’t you a

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

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proud, but

coming, she’d watched Simone’s interviews. Simone had said she wanted more women

wasn’t like the other Sinclairs, or maybe just different

to

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

it was best to be straight with Simone about the role. Simone couldn’t stand girls who acted all

hope. But if she was just living for her

dig deeper. But now, she cracked a smile. “Y’know, if the Grants heard that, they’d give

dropped her gaze. “I only dared say it because I saw your

was the rebel. High society looked down on showbiz,

guessed she’d watched those crazy

said, “Just for what you said, I’ll give you this chance. You’ve got my number–bring your talent directly to me.

all, the Grant family only married women to be

“Got it.”

let

doesn’t care

known Charles was cheating for a

be this calm now. She used to

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time she visited the Sinclairs, her eyes stayed glued to

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Charles had hidden his girlfriend so well–how’d

anything to him, right?”

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