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The evening breeze tousled Olivia’s hair as she removed her glasses, revealing bright, luminous eyes that seemed to shimmer like autumn waters. Her flawless, fair skin was tinged with a rosy flush.

“How was the soup?” Alexander asked, watching her as she leaned into the cold wind.

Olivia turned her head, her cheeks slightly flushed with irritation.

“Grandpa went to the trouble of making that soup for you. How could you turn down his kind gesture?”

Alexander’s gaze lingered on her for a moment before he strode forward, his long legs closing the distance until he was standing just behind her.

Already annoyed, Olivia felt her irritation spike as he drew nearer. She turned to glare at him, her face close to his.

“Can you back off a little?”

“Do you know why I didn’t drink that soup?” Alexander raised an eyebrow, his towering frame casting a shadow over her under the light.

Olivia froze for a moment,

For some reason, the restlessness she’d been feeling seemed to dissipate slightly with his presence, replaced by an inexplicable urge to get even closer.

Wait a second. Realizing something was off, Olivia’s mind raced.

“Are you saying there was something wrong with the soup?” she asked, startled.

Alexander’s gaze lowered slightly, his eyes meeting her flushed face.

“What do you think?”

panic as Vance’s earlier words came back to her, sparking a

No way.

wanting

Alexander said, his brow lifting slightly. “After all,

Olivia was stunned.

self–desperate and foolish–slipping him an aphrodisiac under Amelia’s influence, trying to

You’re saying that soup. Has the same effect?” She

was confirmation

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had stubbornly refused to drink the soup. He’d figured it out right

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an agitated little bunny, Alexander’s tall figure leaned forward

between them.

the gap

thought you’d

widening as his face came closer. Reflexively, she pushed against his chest to

moment her hands touched his heated chest through his shirt, it was as if an electric shock jolted through her fingertips. She snatched

soup.

low murmur, his breath brushing against her ear. “Need my

Olivia’s checks turned crimson, the color spreading so quickly it

scandalous nonsense is this?

Help with what?”

flash, Olivia jumped away from him as though he were some wild beast,

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