Chapter 866

"What's the matter? Am I not good enough?" Grant admitted with a shrug, seemingly unfazed.

Fanny and I just laughed it off, thinking he was joking. The more casually someone admits something like that, the less likely it is to be true.

Maybe Grant was just bored with the small crowd, but he decided to play the gallant escort, showering Fanny and me with attention. This, of course, didn't sit well with Ernest. "If you're trying to win over a girlfriend, leave my wife out of it," he grumbled.

"Come on, Mr. Collins, remember when you were begging me to take you out for dinner and give you a raise to make sure your wife was taken care of? I'm just doing what I've gotten used to," Grant shot back, not missing a beat.

Ernest was unfazed. "That was then; this is now. Keep your distance from my wife, and... if you're doing all my work, what's left for me to do?"

Grant just laughed it off. "Man, if you wanted to impress your wife, you could've just said so instead of playing games."

"Grant, no wonder you've been single for thirty years," Ernest quipped.

Grant took it in stride. "Not for long, though!"

to Fanny with a mock-serious

along, her voice dripping with mock drama,

mean it?" Grant's eyes

then nodded.

over-the-top reaction had

in and

his hands on his hips, "And why's

intuition is rarely wrong, and I could sense Sinclair had a soft spot for Fanny. She, however, always denied it, possibly because she couldn't get past the whole "family" thing. After all, Sinclair was her uncle, albeit only a few

in fishing? I'll take you," Sinclair said instead, taking Fanny by

I stopped

throwing me for

signal, came over and put an arm around Grant's shoulders. "It's great

I'm single tog. We're not ten years apart, and we get along well. How is that wrong" Grant laid out his reasoning, and for the first time, I realized he

This could get complicated.

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