Burning Passion: Love Never Die

His reaction made Blair a little sad. She kept her voice as low as possible as she replied to Niles, “We were just neighbors. ‘Were’ being the operative word.”

What Blair didn’t know was that Cecelia had been watching them the whole time. The happy mother pinched her husband, tilting her head in their direction.

Baldwin followed her gaze and saw Blair and Niles whispering to each other, while Wesley gulped down his food. However, he could see how

Niles reacted around Blair. His younger son was friendly and animated, but he saw no deep abiding love in the young man’s eyes.

It could be because he considered Blair a friend, or maybe because he had an axe to grind. Either way, Baldwin was sure that Niles wasn’t in love with Blair.

However on the other hand, Wesley was acting strange. He seemed to deliberately avoid eye contact with Blair. But when he occasionally took a quick glance at her, the look in his eyes was complicated.

Baldwin thought that Wesley might have a thing for Blair.

Blair picked up her glass, starting in on the lemonade. He suddenly drew closer to her and

fool me, I know what

had told her, Blair awkwardly choked on the

out the drink in her mouth. Otherwise, she would be even more

coughing fit drew everyone’s eyes

and

Blair felt nervous and embarrassed. She wished she could hide under the table now. She waved a hand at her uncle

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Sorry… Ugh…” She was cut off by another

them to Blair. She took them and covered her mouth to

a voice said. She recognized the voice. She took the glass of water handed

about Wesley. She guessed Wesley heard nothing. If he had, he

taking a few sips, Blair stopped coughing. Seeing this, Niles patted her back and said, “Hey, why are you so shocked? I was telling the truth.”