Chapter 72

Dorothy blinked at the man in front of her, almost convinced she was dreaming.

Shouldn’t he have been at Heather’s side, keeping a sleepless vigil after her surgery?

“Another friend is there. No need for me.” Everett shrugged casually, shedding his suit jacket.

Dorothy blinked again. “A guy?”

“Huh?”

“Your other friend. Is he a guy?”

Everett nodded. “Yeah. He’s actually better at taking care of Heather.”

Well, that explained a lot!

Dorothy had been puzzling over what kind of colassal misunderstanding stood between Everett and Heather. Two people so clearly in love yet obstinately not together.

Then it all made sense. A third wheel was in the picture.

type, was probably no match for that other guy’s attentiveness and charm. That

he was always trying to use Dorothy in make Heather jealous.

eaten

Dorothy’s analysis. His first concem was always

on a diet.” Dorothy genuinely had no

have my assistant send something over.” His words always had a compelling force to

was bom a leader and others were just meant

up and watched as he took some fruit cut of the refrigerator, washed them, and put them in front of het He

brought

did you know I

specifically bought them for a long time. Come to think of it, it had

time in middle school when you ate them all during lunch

Middle school?

reminder, Dorothy suddenly remembered the first time she ate

classmate being rather generous, giving each student a box of

She said, taking a

was very sweet

anything, holding another strawberry in his slender hard, ready to hand it over at any time.

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