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


still debating how to dodge the call, but Elaine’s move was quick and solved the problem. With that, I didn’t

a dilemma

be safe, Lfigured

could really hold her liquor. Even after all those drinks, she was still surprisingly

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

promised to take

talking, and I quietly listened, helping her downstairs to her

the apartment building, its headlights

landed right across the path we needed to

and spotted the car, my heart started thudding

It’s hurting my eyes,” Elaine grumbled, clearly

the side, making sure the

car, the back window


appeared under the dim streetlights, his expression aloof

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that look that said I’d crossed the

phone.

shot him a quick glance, but Elaine was already clinging to my arm, groaning that she

bother with Edward–just hurried Elaine inside the

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