The Day I Kissed An Older Man by Cher the Cherished

"You're much more of a gentleman compared to that night," Rita remarked with a smile.

In response, Sherman cocked an eyebrow and quipped, "And you're much more amiable now than you were then."

Their shared laughter drew Sadie's gaze and fueled her resentment.

She wanted to know when Rita started to have eyes on Sherman and felt that Rita was utterly shameless for trying to charm the man that Sadie had been eyeing first.

That being said, a public display of frustration was hardly appropriate, so Sadie forced a smile and approached Sherman. "Where have you been, Mister Sherman? I looked everywhere for you earlier but couldn't find you," she said, disregarding Rita's presence.

When Sherman saw Sadie coming over to him, he instinctively took a step back and maintained a polite distance. "And you are?" he asked.

Sadie's smile stiffened in response to that question.

was trying to do. It was natural to feel drawn to such an exceptional man, and there was indeed no one else quite like him in the entire banquet. However, Sadie seemed to think too highly of herself rather than looking at herself in the mirror to see if she was fit to even approach him. Plenty of young women in the banquet were dying to get close to him but did not dare to do

Sherman," she said with a strained smile. "I'm Sadie, the second daughter of the Russells. We crossed paths upstairs earlier, but I suppose you couldn't get a good look at me because my sister

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Russells' eldest daughter, Rita. I wasn't aware

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each other once, and he had no reason to incur Karen's wrath for her sake-not that he had anything to

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it could not have been easy for a nineteen-year-old to mask their emotions so

is Karen's daughter,

Sadie with her

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Rita explained to Sherman, who nodded

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