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Chapter 17
Chapter 17
"Fine, whatever you say, Sir," she said, going with the flow while a small giggle left her lips as she went the other way to open the shotgun seat. A nanosecond later, the entire car was occupied with a faint, soft vanilla scent. Adler figured that it was her perfume. As it wafted over the opening of his nostrils like a vixen faintly playing, tempting, he found it refreshing, compared to Elis' intoxicating perfume that he defined as desire's smell that would always make him catch his breath.
"You've got a soft-smelling perfume," he complimented, wanting for the tender fragrance to last for a while as she sat comfortably on the shotgun seat and putting her bag on her lap.
"Oh," she gasped as her cheeks slightly rose its temperature. "It's a body mist."
"Oh, I see. I apologize for not recognizing that," he said with the same smile earlier as he stepped on the gas pedal at the same time, swerve the steering wh
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