Please Be Gentle With Me Mr Grant

Blanca had been lying against the sofa. Now she sat up.

She didn’t know what had happened between Kylie and Todd, but she and Todd were past tense now!

“Blanca, I…”

“If there’s nothing else, I’m going to hang up.” Blanca bit her lip. Her only flaw as a person was probably that she was soft-hearted, especially to people she’d once cared for.

Kylie had introduced her to Todd in the first place. The two of them were college classmates. Back then, Blanca was working already, and occasionally had meals with Kylie. With that back and forth, she met Todd more often, who then started courting her.

Blanca settled her thoughts and was about to hang up when there came a sudden exclamation from the other end. “I won’t give up so easily, Blanca!”

Blanca had already hung up.

Her feelings were in the past, dust in the wind.

“Who was that?”

as she jumped. Then

looking down upon Blanca from the bedside, lips curving. “Or

and she didn’t

Her fist tightened, though.

she was lonely without Todd, but… what right did Matthew have to talk

forget who you are,

exactly like a man who’d caught

pissed Blanca

what if we decided to reignite the old flame? Aren’t you butting in a bit too

nightgown right now, showing her smooth leg and collarbone. From where Matthew stood, he could see

to raise her

His throat suddenly moved.

him. What, did he really think he was something else just for standing a little bit higher? She leaned against the bedrest and stood up on the bed, barefoot. “I’m telling you right here and now, Matthew Grant. We’re cooperating. Cooperating, got it? And in a cooperation, what’s important is to get ourselves in a win-win situation. We’re in an equal position. I’m acting that you’re my husband well enough out there, but my