Love Coming from the Least Expected

It wasn’t the first time I met Julia after all. She treated me rather well when I was in the hospital, and apart from occasionally being hesitant about my relationship with Christopher, she had never picked a fight with me. She had even cried after hearing about my terminal disease.

She may have been a powerful businesswoman, but she was still sensitive. If not, she wouldn’t have been so sentimental and wouldn’t have been so torn over my marriage with Christopher. When I went to visit his family the last time, she barely said anything offensive. Her attitude today had been truly out of the ordinary.

When I thought about that and how Mitchell had approached the Tanner family, this was all obviously one of the Martin family’s tricks. Mitchell must have told Julia something for her to act so differently from usual.

involved

problems needed an urgent solution. Even if I didn’t tell him, my father would still have found a way to make a fuss and spoke to

made his usual advances on me in our bedroom. While thinking about whether to tell Christopher about it,

no, it’s nothing,”

me rest my head against his chest. He caressed my bare back gently and

and I’m not really up to that but I do want to meet some of my favorite artists,” I randomly strung together an excuse and managed to steer the conversation in that direction. Thankfully, I had something else to talk to Christopher about. He was well-educated on art as

and Contest after all, not some random party with nobodies. As for your favorite artists, just tell me their

Christopher’s stomach. “Can’t you come up with a more reasonable solution? Those artists won’t be happy if you force them to come over. I know how they

more low-key than others,” Christopher said as he pulled the blanket over me and lit a

for example?” I

did