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Chapter 48

Penulis: Cassandra Kim
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Leo was feeling flattered, but under pressure from the close attention from Nocturne. He was the CEO after all. Nocturne pulled out the chair next to him and sat down.

“Angela, what do you think so far?” the CEO asked.

“I’m five pages in,” she retorted. “How fast do you think I can read? It’s been two minutes since I started.”

“I’ve seen you throw out manuscripts after one page,” Nocturne pointed out. “You’re relentless when you go through the slush pile.”

“You have to be when going through that mountain,” she said without taking her gaze off his manuscript.

Nocturne turned his attention to him. “Leo, do you know what a slush pile is?”

Leo was quick to show that he knew information about traditional book publishing.

“It’s mostly submissions from authors who don’t have a literary agent and send their work directly to a publisher."

“You’re knowledgeable,” Nocturne commented.

Leo gave him a brief run down of his degree and limited writing experience. It was nice to have something to focu
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    Leo burst out laughing. The man in the jewelry shop had mentioned another customer before him buying a ring to propose that very evening. It had been Nocturne all along.What were the chances of them choosing the same ring and the same day to propose?“It feels like we’re fated,” he said. “The same ring and the same day.”Nocturne placed the other ring carefully on Leo’s ring finger. It fitted perfectly. Leo held up his hand and admired it.“I had been planning to gauge your opinion on marriage and then you asked me for mine,” Nocturne said softly. “I guess that should have been the clue we were thinking on the same lines. You confirmed you wanted to marry me and I went to buy a ring that I had seen earlier."Leo smiled as he realized they had followed exactly the same steps.“I was planning to propose to you when you came back from work in the hallway so it would be the first thing you saw when you came in. I was disconcerted to find you had come back early,” he admitted.“In my mind

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