"Howl's Love Advice"
Chapter 36: Gratitude
Lily flipped her sleek, black hair out from under her stylish jacket collar and left the Tea Room Fort's brouhaha behind her. Her purple lips were all smiles while she admired the photograph she had just snapped with Dr. Howl Pendragon.
He was so damn hot.
If he were any other man...
She joined a group waiting at the street corner and pressed "send" on her mobile. Her throat hummed a pleasant tune as she adjusted her silver bracelet.
Half a beat later buzzed the expected phone call.
"Present for you!" Lily intoned cheerfully.
"I'm sure Ben loves knowing his fiance is a faithless tease," sneered the woman on the other line.
Lily's lip curled unpleasantly. Witch. "Don't you want to know how your former pet is doing?" She hardened her voice. Not that she held any love for her fiance, but she didn't care to be insulted.
"Eternally."
"He looks happy," Lily goaded. Her heels clicked across the pavement as she resumed walking.
"He always had himself for that."
"There was a woman with him."
"Oh?"
"Se-cre-ta-ry…" the black-haired woman drawled out, hailing a cab.
She could practically hear the greed exhaled through the other line.
"Now that is a present."
Lily pulled the mobile from her ear to forward a second photograph of the susceptible-looking secretary in tasteless gray. "You're welcome."