Hello, Sir, can I help you procure some produce?” The young woman asked the man who had been hovering around her fruit stand for the last ten minutes.“It is you I’d like to procure,” the man said with a sly smile.Victoria would have balked at such a comment, but his sheepish smile made it hard to take him seriously. Instead, she laughed. He was very handsome and she had seen him around the market before. She liked how he tried to pretend to be a slick character when he really seemed very kind.Her laugh caught the young man off guard and he didn’t know what to do. He had expected that she would get angry, or perhaps she would have agreed to his offer. But certainly no one had laughed before. Well, he had not in fact ever tried such a forward approach to meeting a woman. He had made it to twenty-four years of age without so much as one real relationship. His family kept him very sheltered.“I think I’ll only be able to assist you with the produce for today Sir,” Victoria said.Victor
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