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.

it anymore. Picking up on my mood

to the palace after being away all day,

this on,"

my brows

"What for?"

a surprise for

I put the blindfold

I couldn't see anything and then he guided me away. I could tell from the various scents and

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

around me and then I noticed a greeting card on a small table in a small pavilion that read: A belated wedding

look at Elliot, a crease between my brows and

I asked, my voice coming out in

putting his hands in his front pockets almost sheepishly. "I figured they

***

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 informed me that my paintings did not

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