A knot formed in the pit of my stomach.

"I apologize..." I said.

"Were your achievements at the auction just a fluke then? Are you incapable of repainting that portrait?"

"Sir, I-"

"I expect better from my exclusive painters," he scolded, and then he hung up before I could say another word.

I looked at Rebecca who was staring at me with raised brows.

"Why would you turn down the offer?" She asked, curiously.

"I made a promise to Elliot," I told her. "I can't go back on my word."

"Maybe you should speak with him about it.

Picking up on my mood change, Rebecca changed

to the palace after being away

this on," he

raised my brows at

"What for?"

a surprise for you,"

I put

scents and sounds that we had wandered outside. Elliot surprised me by

and untying my blindfold. When I adjusted my eyes to the

surrounded by roses of all different colors. I gasped at the beauties around me and then I noticed a greeting card on a small table in a small pavilion that read: A

crease between my

I asked, my voice

including the one you did of me," he said, shrugging and putting his hands in his front pockets almost sheepishly. "I

***

passed since Elliot surprised me with the greenhouse and only one day had passed since I submitted my artwork to the Pandora Bloom gallery. However, my paintings were returned to me the following day. One of the workers at the gallery

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