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Chapter 154

Author: Summer Knowles
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"You dance wonderfully too, Mr. Reynolds."

"How's Mia?"

"She wasn't feeling well earlier, so I took her upstairs. I planned to bring her back down for the gala, but she fell asleep, so I came down alone." Then she'd encountered that situation.

James's face showed concern. "I thought Mia had gotten over her fears."

"She had been stable, but today there were too many people. She got overwhelmed," Sarah knew Mia was especially sensitive now.

James looked at the top of her head, his thick eyelashes fluttering. "I really love the gift."

He was also delighted to see the bracelet he'd given her on her wrist.

"You've already said that."

"But I wanted to say it again."

When their dance ended and they stepped off the floor hand in hand, those women were still glaring at her as if she'd stolen someone's husband.

She smiled wryly. When someone had stolen her own husband, no one had looked at that person this way. Instead, they'd thought she was the ungrateful one.

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