Chapter Twelve

“HE ASKED ME TO WAIT after that,” Poppy shared with a blush, “and I mentioned, um…”

“You would be comfortable to attend?”

“Higher.”

Heather’s brows shot up. “Actually?” This, she needed to hear.

“I informed him I would wait for so long as he—-“

Heather groaned even earlier than Poppy had completed. “That is worse, Poppy. That is absolutely the worst!”

“I simply felt the should be sincere,” the youthful girl mentioned sheepishly.

Heather might solely sigh in response. Honesty was the perfect coverage, in any case, and even she did not suppose it was proper to insist in any other case.

“You are so pure, Poppy.”

Poppy instantly shook her head at this. She was not pure in any respect, contemplating how each evening she hadn’t been capable of cease herself from reliving the time she had fallen into Valerian’s lap. Now that the reminiscence was not “forbidden”, all she might take into consideration was how her nipples had immediately turned exhausting as they scraped towards the exhausting wall of his chest.

Such ideas had been the alternative of pure, however she simply could not assist it. Valerian was the primary man she had ever felt such a robust attraction to. And after eight lengthy months of denying such emotions even existed, it nonetheless appeared surreal that there was not a necessity to carry again on something.

Heather all of a sudden reached for Poppy’s hand to present it a squeeze. “I simply need to say thanks. Valerian’s been working nonstop to show issues round for the corporate, however I do know that is nonetheless not an excuse to not name you for a complete week.”

“I actually do not thoughts,” Poppy assured the opposite girl. “It isn’t like I have never ever seen him at work.” There was additionally the truth that she had wolfed up all of the articles and interviews she might discover about Valerian, however that was most likely one thing she ought to maintain to herself. Heather was already fearful she was too good to her brother because it was.

Poppy headed again to work after her lunch date with Heather, and he or she spent the remainder of the day like she normally did. Ever since her telephone name with Valerian, it was as if she had been working underneath a rose-colored haze. Nothing had been capable of make her cease smiling—-not even when Giovanni had severely requested Poppy if her creepy smiles had been a sign that she was auditioning for a horror film.

What she had with Valerian Rossfield won’t be sufficient to qualify as a relationship, however one thing was nonetheless higher than nothing. Since she did not even enable herself to think about him prior to now, what she did have now was sufficient to have Poppy feeling over the moon.

Not solely might she fantasize about him with out guilt, however he had even given her a cause to hope for one thing extra.

And when she noticed his title flash on her telephone late that night, Poppy truthfully felt like she had gained the lottery. Her coronary heart began to pound, and her voice got here out breathless as she answered his name.

“Hiya?”

“You sound out of breath. Did I catch you at a nasty time—-“

“No—-“

“Or are you that excited to listen to from me?”

Poppy barely managed to maintain herself from squealing. His phrases is likely to be too conceited for others, however she did not care. She had been trimming his hair for eight months, and so they had acted like strangers to one another your entire time.

So the truth that Valerian was now flirting together with her over the telephone?

It was like successful 1,000,000 {dollars} time and again and once more, and Poppy’s giddiness was such that each one she might do was converse the reality. “The latter?”

A second handed, and Poppy could not assist smiling as she heard him groan precisely the way in which his half-sister did.

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