Housewife Gone Wild

Loose 651

Chapter 651

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Elaine clearly noticed it too. She squinted her tipsy eyes at me, teasing, “Ms. Murphy, is there a fox chasing after you? What kind of wolf is it–the biting kind, the devouring kind, or the protective kind?”

“You’re drunk. Just a client, that’s all,” I replied, trying to keep my cool.

Elaine blinked in surprise. “Calling a client a fox is kind of weird.”

gave a faint smile. “Nothing weird about it. Some clients are tougher to handle than any fox.”

Elaine immediately nodded in agreement. “Totally. The ones I’ve run into are even tougher than foxes–they’re basically

bears.”

On the outside, I kept my cool, but my heart was pounding. ‘Edward’s back in the United Kingdom?‘

Just then, my phone started ringing again. I ignored it, but Elaine snatched it up and turned it off. “Seriously, what time is it? Do they have any manners? Who calls someone about business in the middle of the night? Ms. Murphy, you let them get

away with too much. If it were me, I’d have cursed them out already, she snapped.

I had no idea what to say.

It was not that let him get away with too much; it’s just one of Edward’s annoying habits–he always liked to call me in

middle of the

call, but Elaine’s move

a

be

after

the way, she wouldn’t stop telling me about all the romantic stuff her

And… he even promised to take me on

just kept talking, and I quietly listened, helping

black Rolls–Royce sat silently at the entrance of the apartment building, its headlights cutting through the faint

right across the path

as I looked up and spotted the car, my heart started thudding in

with their headlights on? It’s

steered her to the side, making sure the headlights

car, the

striking face appeared under the

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me, giving me that look that said I’d crossed the line by ignoring his calls and even shutting

phone.

to my arm, groaning that she felt sick and needed

even bother with Edward–just hurried Elaine