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.

carefully parked the car when she arrived home, and when she got out of the car, she

he saw Patricia coming out of the red

“New car, Tricia?”

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

car broke down. My friend doesn’t drive

frowned in response. “Well, this friend must be rich. It’s not Mr. Selwyn, is

heart, and they thought God was still rather nice to this single mother even though it wasn’t easy for her to raise triplets on

if Patricia could marry one of them, she’d

shook her head. “No,

his curiosity, Gus returned to his chair and

before entering her home, and with

said the other day, the one that

that she was interested, he spat out the peanut shell in his mouth and said, “Tricia, we’ve been neighbors for about two to three years, haven’t we? Do I look like a bad guy to

thought, and he would be more than willing to

a couple of times, making sure there was no one else around, before whispering, “I want to loan half

got tempted mainly because Gus told her that it was interest-free. They only

to you by

a commission of fifteen thousand if Tricia borrowed half a million. For someone who never had a