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CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Author: Megan Rae
last update Last Updated: 2024-05-04 19:32:42

“Sit,” he says. “This meal is yours.”

I sit in the exact same spot I sat in the last time and take a quick glance at all the food spread on the table.

“I made sure that they prepared more of the things you liked from the last time and less of those you did not touch,” he says as I begin to put some food on my plate. “I also added a few new things so that we may properly determine your taste.”

“What?” is the only thing that manages to escape my lips. Is Alden really changing the food he serves me based on my preferences? What is this monster doing when even my own ex-boyfriend could not have bothered to try to learn what I liked while we were going out? I remember once, right before our third anniversary, he decided that he was going to make me dinner, which in itself, was a surprise and gift enough because Brad never did anything for someone else.

Unfortunately, the evening took a downward turn when I realized that he’d made something with fish when I’d told him so many times before
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