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.

the two of us, you're definitely the

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

laughing and chatting like that, and with her company, Keira was

work but still stopped by the café every day to help out. He even took care of most of the cleaning in the evenings, essentially becoming her free

a husband is pretty great. I think I want to get married too," Lena mused for the

wrong? Feeling lonely, or is your estrogen surging and

pick someone up,"

back in a lounge chair, staring at the sky.

about Professor Neumann. If you reach out to him now, he

Kelra teased, referring to Nate, who had

now," she replied with a grin that hinted at her

her eyes at her. "What did Aaron feed you

let go. If another woman snatches him up, it'd be

already on edge thinking he might one day cut ties with the

lately means he's having second thoughts because of what I