Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

Chapter 940

Whenever Lena wasn't too busy, she'd come to Keira's café to learn how to make coffee and desserts.

"Look at this! Doesn't it look even better than yours?" Lena bragged, showing off her latest creation with a grin.

As a teacher, Keira believed in encouragement over criticism. "The student surpasses the master. You've done great.

"I think so too," she said, smirking. "If-l-ever-lose my job, at least I'll have a skill to fall back

on."

Keira chuckled. "What's that supposed to mean? Are you planning to steal my livelihood?" "A thriving industry isn't built on one success-it flourishes when it's full of competition," she declared with her own brand of logic. She wasn't wrong; no industry thrived with just one dominant player.

"Teaching the apprentice only to starve the master," Keira joked with a sigh.

"No worries. If you go bankrupt, I'll hire you for a ridiculously high salary to work for me," she replied with mock seriousness.

her a thumbs-up. "Between the two of us, you're

laughed. "That's right! I wield a scalpel for a living. If I

days laughing and chatting like that, and with her

busy with his own work but still stopped by the café every day to help out.

husband is pretty great. I think I want to get married too," Lena

Feeling lonely, or is your estrogen surging and demanding a release?" "Both," she admitted freely, unbothered by

then, just go and pick someone

in a lounge chair, staring at the sky. "Those

Professor Neumann. If you

Kelra teased, referring to Nate, who

grin that hinted at her playful, cavalier attitude, Keira smirked. "Then find someone interesting someone who'll give you

"What did Aaron feed you

good to let go. If another woman snatches him

tone half-joking, half-serious. "I'm already on edge thinking he might one day cut ties with the Ace family. My parents wouldn't

his silence lately means he's