Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 207

She thought, Larkin would definitely love this.

After all, it was Larkin who had given the photo to the gallery in the first place.

Once the piece was framed, the shop owner wrapped it carefully in a layer of crimson cloth to protect it on the road.

Jessica paid for everything, left the delivery address, and scheduled for it to arrive later that evening.

The papercut was quite large-nearly six feet long-making it impossible to carry home herself.

She'd been up until nearly 2 a.m. last night, then woke at dawn to work on it, finally finishing by late afternoon.

Fortunately, she hadn't lost her touch. If her hands weren't steady, there simply wouldn't have been enough time.

As Jessica stepped out of the framing shop, her phone buzzed with a message from Vince.

"Jessica, I'm outside your building. I came to pick you up-are you not home?"

She hadn't expected Vince to show up in person.

"I'm out, but I'll be back right away," she replied.

"I'll wait for you."

When Jessica arrived home, she found two people standing at her door.

One carried an impressively large bag, while the other struggled with several boxes in his arms.

"Jessica, open up!"

at ease, the sort of easy charm that made

couldn't very

unlocked the door and let them in. Vince stepped inside and said, "This is the makeup artist

gift, had completely forgotten about

all-no way she could show up in

message on her phone: "Thank you for going to all this

have time to get everything ready, living way out here. Go on, get changed and let the makeup artist work her magic

the makeup artist

waited in the living room. He'd already spoken to Timothy, asking him not to come by, but the old man

was determined to make sure Jessica would be the star of the

was a legend in

business world, practically

no slouch himself he was even a

1.n

had

step behind Timothy in

of ruthless skill.

really wasn't much that could throw Timothy

Vince was curious-was there truly

Lawson family would never allow

to admit that

why had Timothy married her? And if he

answers would