You Are My One and Only

Elizabeth nearly spat out the oatmeal in her mouth upon hearing Adeline’s words. No, that’s not what I mean! I’m clearly saying you don’t need to keep me company if you have other plans!

But who’d have thought this girl got the wrong idea? Alas, she seems to have a little trouble with reading the room.

“Old Mrs. Arnold, why don’t we go shopping later?” Adeline suggested after checking the time. She thought any woman had a natural liking to shopping, even older women, right?

Seeing how enthusiastic the young woman was, Elizabeth didn’t have the heart to turn her down.

Since Isaac threw this problem to her, Elizabeth would help him handle it for now.

“Sure!”

…

Patricia enjoyed driving her new ride home as it had a good speed and was automatic at that. There wasn’t a single problem with it!

She loved the red car, feeling like she had gotten it with nothing.

She couldn’t figure out why Isaac would say something was wrong with this car. Surely, it was he who was being finicky.

and when she got out of the car, she found Gus sitting idly in front of his

was actually munching on peanuts. When he saw Patricia coming out of the red car, he went up and circled around

“New car, Tricia?”

her neighbors and was quite familiar with them as well. If there ever was an emergency, they were happy to help each

my janky car broke down. My friend doesn’t drive this car often, so he

friend must be rich. It’s not Mr. Selwyn,

this part of the neighborhood quite often in the last two years. Everyone around here knew he was trying to win Patricia’s heart, and they thought God was still rather nice to this single mother even though it wasn’t

an affluent family in Appleby, and if Patricia could

her head. “No,

satisfying his curiosity, Gus returned to his chair and continued

at Gus before entering her home, and with

day, the one that you can get the money the same

and said, “Tricia, we’ve been neighbors for about two to three years, haven’t we? Do I look like a bad guy to you? Would

but he isn’t dishonorable, Patricia thought, and he would be more than willing to help

no one else around, before whispering, “I want to loan half a million. How many days will it take

told her that it was

it’ll be transferred to you by tonight if

Tricia borrowed half a million. For someone who never had