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 found Gus sitting

was actually munching on peanuts. When he saw Patricia coming out of the red car, he

“New car, Tricia?”

her neighbors and was quite familiar with them as well. If there ever was an

doesn’t drive this car often, so he lent

must be rich. It’s not

he was trying to win Patricia’s heart, and they thought God

Patricia could marry one of them, she’d turn from rags to

shook her head. “No,

returned to his chair and continued what he was

glanced at Gus before entering her home, and with that,

that you can get the money the same

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

he isn’t dishonorable, Patricia thought, and he would be more than willing to help whenever anyone comes to him.

“I want to loan half a million. How many days will it take to

tempted mainly because Gus told her that it was interest-free. They only charged ten percent for the

by tonight

commission of fifteen thousand if Tricia borrowed half a million. For someone who never had a proper job, Gus never experienced