XIX. Honest Answer
After cleaning up well after herself, Darla went to her office as the headmistress of the orphanage as well as the school that provided for the people of Norkins. She was tidying up herself so that Ruben would think that she was suitable to be his wife. You’re too wild and free, that is why the gentlemen did not ask for your hand. I’ll show him that I can and I will be someone’s wife, Darla thought, pushing the comment from her mortal enemy away from her mind. She went inside the office and Ruben was looking outside the window before he turned and smiled at her. “Darla darling,” he said before crossing the room and went to perk her lips. They did not officially betroth yet but Ruben was putting his claim on her already. Perhaps this what it feels like to have attention from a gentleman,
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