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Chapter Fourteen

Author: Anney GW
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-06 10:17:08
Celeste’s POV

“Celeste, I’ve been looking all over for you. Long time no see.”

I looked up at the drop dead gorgeous man in front of me in bewilderment.

A pair of dimples cut into his sculpted face as he smiled at me. My eyebrows furrowed at the hint of affection that twinkled in his green eyes.

I hadn’t a clue who he was.

“Celeste, don’t tell me you’ve forgotten all about me?”

He placed an elbow on the cocktail table beside me and lazily rested his chin on his hand, narrowing the space between us. Thick, dark lashes framed his eyes. They were deeper and clearer than the finest jade gemstones I’d ever seen.

The man’s gaze delicately brushed my face, as if committing each feature to memory.

“I could never forget you.”

His voice was a husky murmur so low I could just make out the words.

It sent my heart racing.

I was a grown woman. I couldn’t let this twenty-something year old kid charm me into a puddle on the banquet hall floor.

“Ryan Edwards,” He stood tall and extended a hand, “Not
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This people only thinks about sex, to be hot or wet. Jezzus
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