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Anneliese’s heart sank at the way Jonathan sighed, as if she had broken some unspoken rule. And he wouldn’t say it outright either–men could be so impossible to read sometimes.
“Forget it,” Jonathan sighed again, slowly turning the shopping cart around. Even his back looked wounded and lonely, practically begging for her to coax him.
Anneliese felt the pressure mounting on her chest. In her panic, a sudden thought came to her. “Wait! How about I buy a pair for you too, to keep at my place?”
Jonathan instantly turned the cart back with smooth ease. “Sure.”
She hadn’t expected that to be the reason for his sulking. The realization was both amusing and exasperating.
“What’s so funny?”
Anneliese tried to hold it in, but he caught her anyway. Grinning, she looked straight at him. “You’re acting like a kid. I invited you over to my place, but you didn’t even invite me to yours. Hmph!” She puffed her cheeks, her arms akimbo, and pulled a sulky child’s face.
Jonathan nodded solemnly. “Recognizing your mistakes and correcting them–that’s the mark of a good child.”
Anneliese fell silent, She had meant to call him childish, not confess to her own mistakes. Still, she obediently walked to the men’s slipper section. Without even asking his size, she reached straight for the largest one. But the size 13 and 14 pairs were all hanging on the very top row. Even on tiptoe, she couldn’t reach them.
Just as she was about to step down and look for a ladder, her body suddenly lifted off the ground. Jonathan’s strong hands had gripped her waist and hoisted her up with ease.
She had already shed her down coat when they entered the store, leaving her in a fitted cashmere sweater. Through the fabric, she felt the solid warmth of his chest against her back. The heat spreading across her waist burned like fire, his crisp, clean scent wrapping around her completely.
For a moment, Anneliese forgot where she was or what she had been trying to do—until Jonathan’s voice snapped her back. “Up you go, Annie. Grab it.”
“Oh… okay.” Her ears flushed hot.
She snatched down a pair of slippers without even glancing at the color, clutching them to her chest. “Got
them!
Jonathan eyed the pair of slippers in her arms, his lips twitching and pressing together, but he said nothing as he set her back down.
It wasn’t until she returned honic and placed them on the shoe rack that Anneliese realized she had picked a pair of vivid red men’s slippers–so bright they looked more like a gag gift than something a man like Jonathan would wear.
“Woof!” Meatloaf tapped a paw against the red slippers.
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“These are for your favorite Mr. Fullbuster. He didn’t say a word when I handed them over. Maybe he actually likes red? That would be pretty unexpected.”
“Woof, woof!” Meatloaf barked, as if agreeing.
Anneliese let it go, ruffling the dog’s head before heading upstairs to change and start dinner. But just then, her phone rang. The caller ID made her pause.
When she answered and listened, her expression changed instantly. The call was from Miles–Jessica was missing.
“Even sick, Jessica never skipped a client. I went to her apartment and found broken glasses and vases in the living room. She’s gone, and her phone’s dead.”
Jessica had been hired to accompany an elderly patient that day. When she didn’t show, the client called Miles. He had sent Celine to take over the appointment, then rushed to Jessica’s apartment and found signs of trouble.
“She didn’t reach out yesterday either. Don’t panic. Check with the neighbors first. If no one noticed anything, start looking at surveillance footage. I’ll be there in half an hour,” Anneliese instructed, already moving toward the door.
She called Jessica, but as expected, the phone was off.
Stepping into the elevator, she remembered Jonathan was still waiting and quickly rang him. “Sorry, something came up, I need to head out right now, so I can’t cook dinner tonight.” Her tone was urgent.
At that very moment, Jonathan was in the entryway, placing the pink rabbit–eared slippers neatly on the mat beside his own black pair.
The sight stirred something inside him–it almost looked like a woman lived here now. He had never noticed before, but black and pink side by side seemed perfectly matched, harmonizing beautifully together.
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