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9 | “You can't say that!"
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2023-11-07 18:30:35There were times like these when Carmen wasn’t sure what to do with her hands. She wasn’t carrying her phone directly in her hand, which was just so unfortunate because it could be used as a way to distract herself or to appear distracted to others.
When Simon’s car pulled up at the docks, she had been way too nervous about the media snapping pictures outside to really care about the phone that she had subconsciously slipped into her rhinestone clutch. And due to the lack of it, now she was forced to busy her eyes gazing at the laughing and giggling crowd around them, the champagne bubbling up the glasses and the same glasses being clinked and raised in the air.
Before joining the party on the deck, however, Simon had led her to a room.
“I have a surprise for you,” he said to her before turning around and twisting the knob. As the door opened, it revealed the most gorgeous suite she had ever laid eyes on.
The room itself was
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