Echoes of Unrequited Love

Chapter 57

Well, she was the investor’s mommy, wasn’t she?

Right after we hung up, Hilary shot over the shop’s address like a bullet.

It was this ancient tailor shop that’s pretty big with the rich ladies in Rivertown.

Before clocking out. I chugged down a coffee to perk up and headed out.

What I didn’t see coming was Hogan and Cecilia also showing up.

As the waiter was taking me to Hilary, there was Cecilia, handing over this fancy piece of fabric to Hilary, biting her lip when she caught sight of me.

Hogan was straight up. “What are you doing here?”

I was caught between a rock and a hard place.

Hilary, hearing the commotion, turned around with a grin, “I invited Xaviera over. You two put together don’t know my tastes as well as she does.”

Cecilia’s face fell, and she clutched the fabric in her hands even tighter.

Awkward as hell, I was.

a good eye, though. The fabric she picked was a bit old–fashioned pattern–wise, but

digged the glitz and glam.

to choose for

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but probably just to tick Cecilia off, she made a point of praising it, “See? Understated yet elegant. Xaviera,

a peep, just hung

smooth things over, “Mrs. Hilary, you’ve got such fair skin, anything suits you. Director Irwin’s choice

only then that Hilary begrudgingly settled on a piece.

“Make one of each of

eyes widened as she cooed, “Hogan, that’s way too

been running around with me,

me a look and asked, “Ms. March, got any favorites?”

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just wouldn’t fly. I casually pointed to a beige embroidered sample. “This one’s

we wrapped up the choosing, Hogan found an excuse

that, Xaviera. Busy with work, my foot. He’s just

you should take her under your wing, help her out. After all, she’s the one to

at me, gloomy, and started, “Xaviera, if you and Hogan.”

midway

a hunch about what Hilary was getting