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.

wasn’t buying it, either. Blair picked up her glass, starting in on the

can’t fool me, I know

awkwardly choked on

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

coughing fit drew

looked at her and

table now. She waved a hand at her uncle as she patted her chest with her other hand. When she was

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okay. Sorry… Ugh…” She was cut off by

handed them to Blair. She took them and covered her mouth to stifle the

glass of water handed to her by the man on her right, and drank a

nothing. If he had, he wouldn’t have been so

Seeing this, Niles patted her back and said, “Hey, why are you so shocked? I was telling the truth.”