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.

mood change, Rebecca changed the subject and the rest

away all day, he handed me

on,"

raised my brows at his

"What for?"

a surprise for you," he told

put the

me away. I could tell from the various scents and sounds that we had wandered outside. Elliot surprised me

blindfold. When I adjusted my eyes to the new setting, I gasped at what

of a greenhouse and surrounded by roses of all different colors. I gasped at the beauties around me and then I noticed a greeting card on a small

Elliot, a crease between my brows and tears in my

all this?" I asked, my voice coming out in a

of me," he said, shrugging and putting his hands in his front pockets almost sheepishly. "I figured they were your favorite flowers." I was at a loss

***

I submitted my artwork to the Pandora Bloom gallery. However, my paintings were returned to me the

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