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He walked in with a huge bouquet of flowers. He wrapped his arms around it to carry it. Hastily, Annabel cleared the far corner of her desk. “Here’s the card,” he handed it to her. “These are gorgeous.”

Annabel took the card and leaned forward to smell the flowers. “Thoughtful... maybe.”

“No hate flowers,” Charles watched her open the card. When he saw her smile, he sighed his relief. “From your men?”

“Yes. It’s extremely sweet.”

“And you’re sliding it into your date book. How will you reward them?”

“I have my ways,” she grinned. “Go find out what PR says.”

She watched him walk out of the room. She took a picture of the flowers and sent it to them.

These are beautiful! I love getting a variety of flowers. It lightens my day, just like you lightened my night last night.

Glad you like them

There’s more. We have a surprise. ??

I’m available after 8 tonight. Would you mind if we stayed in? Pizza and beer maybe?

????????

She smiled at their reply.

“It soundslike the ex and the blogger sucked and your guys stepped up,” Olivia smiled as she saw the joy on her mother’s face.

“They sent flowers and candy to both my office and here at home,” Annabel gushed. “No one’s ever… it’s very sweet.”

“It sure is,” Olivia said. “What are you pushing out to counter the blog?”

“What do you mean,” Annabel leaned back from the flowers and curled up on her sofa.

“Whenever your exes are horrible, your PR department puts out some announcement saying how great you are,” Olivia said.

“They’re just announcing stuff which was already in the works,” Annabel said. “I’m not letting them this time. Eventually, Gerry will throw enough dirt it will miss me and land on him.”

“What did you do for your guys,” Olivia asked. “You always give the best gifts.”

“We went to an art showing last night. I bought a couple of things for them,” Annabel confessed.

“Ooooo, sexy pictures?”

“No just ones they expressed an interest in,” Annabel said. She thought about the sexy ones but she wanted Andrew to choose them if he wanted them.

“There’s a lot of good things going on,” Olivia said. “I’m glad. Don’t let the alphaholes tear you apart.”

“I won’t. I definitely will not let these two go,” Annabel smiled.

CHAPTER SIX

“Invite them to Thanksgiving,” Olivia told her mother.

“I don’t want to push these two on you,” Annabel said.

“Mom, do you have strong feelings for them?”

“We haven’t talked about feelings,” Annabel confessed.

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