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10. The Proposal

To my shock, Liam O’Grady turned his smile on me but his eyes were …blazing.

I stiffened.

Job? I thought stupidly. What was he talking about?

Had he misunderstood me yesterday?

*

But my stepmother was gabbing away cheerfully, blissfully unaware of the tension in the room. But then, she was nicely drunk, I thought wearily.

Heather, whose hand he had been holding, clasped his with both her hands fervently, as she said, happily,

“Oh, Bianca, it’s your lucky phase now, don’t you think so dear!”

And she turned to O’Grady, still smiling benignly as she said, clucking her tongue at me with a mischievous smile,

“Just yesterday she had a job offer and she turned it down…the naughty little girl!”

I whipped my head around t give her a lethal look. Naughty girl indeed, I thought, fuming, and my anger shot up as I saw Liam O’ Grady smirking at me. Finn St Just gave an audible snort and I wanted to die of humiliation.

Suddenly Heather saw my expression and stopped. She had figured out, a little
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