“Mr. York.”

Ms. Saunders smiled as she spoke, “I heard you and Ms. Lafayette have been getting closer lately.”

“Aren’t Rosalie and I close all along? We often say hurtful things to each other whenever we meet. I guess we’re close.”

Ms. Saunders said, “I’m being serious here, River.”

“I’m serious, too.”

“You fell in love with Rosalie, right?”

Ms. Saunders was straightforward.

A woman’s instinct was accurate.

Despite her confessing multiple times, River had refused her over and over again.