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.

my mood change, Rebecca changed the

after being away all day,

on," he

brows

"What for?"

a surprise for you," he told

I put the blindfold

could tell from the various scents and sounds that we had wandered outside. Elliot surprised me by lifting me into

few minutes later, he was putting me down and untying my blindfold. When I adjusted my eyes to the new setting, I gasped at what

beauties around me and then I noticed a greeting card

to look at Elliot, a crease between my brows

my voice coming out in

did 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 for words. My heart swelled

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the Pandora Bloom gallery. However, my paintings were returned to me the following day. One of the

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