Popping yet another couple of raisins into her mouth, Genevieve said, “When I was chatting with Cooper just now, he asked me what I wanted to eat and said that he’d order some takeout. I reckon it should arrive in a bit.”

Armand’s eyes narrowed when he heard that and appeared to be a little displeased.

At that moment, the doorbell rang.

“That must be the delivery.” Genevieve was about to set herself upright when she felt Armand’s hand on her shoulder. He motioned for her to remain seated and went to get the door himself.

Standing outside was the same receptionist who had brought up their takeout at noon.

The receptionist had both her hands full on either side of her. When she saw Armand at the door, she immediately presented the things she had to him. “I believe these must be yours, Mr—”

“I did not order these,” Armand cut her off curtly. “Just get rid of them.”

Stumped, the receptionist had no time at all to react as the door shut in her face.

Fishing out the delivery note from her own pocket, she reviewed the address several times and was quite positive that she did not get it wrong.

Armand’s rejection left her quite baffled.

room once more, Armand pulled Genevieve into his arms again, and while he did that, he made a call to Golden Restaurant to

did not ask about what became of the takeout Cooper had ordered either and only conveyed her desire for a couple of dishes and desserts that she had a

resumed watching the movie wordlessly. While they seemed extremely intimate huddled together the way they were, they were as emotionally disengaged

from Golden Restaurant arrived, it was already well past

into the dining room and watched while she ate. As a result, she got so spooked by a terrifying scene that caught her off-guard that she fumbled

continue this later? It’s not as though the movie is going to get away from you somehow,”

napkins to help Genevieve clean the cake off her clothes, some of

is of an even more buttery

Armand was able to pick up on the scent of that icing, as well as the subtle

lips. Finding that devastatingly

his advances in kind,

that kiss, only to find the soft hips that he had previously fondled before to be unwelcoming as a piece of rock

akin to being brought back to his senses with a douse of cold water from above, and a surge of irascibility and exasperation roused within him

massaged his own temples aggressively with his slender fingers. “Go ahead and hit the showers. The housekeeper will come by tomorrow to get the dining table cleared up in

table before she strolled

from how tautly the soft napkin she left on the table had been scrunched up, Armand could infer the

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