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!"

her instantly at ease, the sort of easy

what Vince was planning, but she couldn't

unlocked the door and let them in. Vince stepped inside and said, "This is the makeup artist I arranged. The boxes have the dress, shoes,

gift, had

after all-no way she could

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

thanks. I figured you wouldn't have time to get everything ready, living way out here. Go on, get changed and let the makeup artist work her magic

makeup artist to her

Timothy, asking him not to come by, but the old man had called

determined to make sure Jessica would be the star

a

business world, practically

was no slouch himself he

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but he had to admit he

a step behind Timothy

of ruthless skill.

wasn't much that could

there truly nothing that could

Mrs. Timothy Lawson. Vince could easily guess why: the Lawson family would never allow it, not with her being just

to admit that

her? And if he had, why keep

the answers would come