"Lucy ✨ Of course." Valentine said with a warm smile, a real one which Lucy hadn't seen for quite a while.
"I'm interested to hear more about what you might think, but for now…"
*clink* Valentine hands Lucy a glass and they gently knock their drinks together, a small celebration by any measure… 🫢✨
"Let's celebrate what Sally has managed to achieve, something people could have scarcely brought themselves to believe… a brand new way for Humans to conceive !!!"
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At the same time…
Things were definitely not going well, Mor Mun Ni could clearly tell.
The beard-bundling businessman could clearly see, that Valentine was currently hitting it off with Lucy - who was dazzling, like a ray of light, and which made for a very… displeasing sight!
Patience. He told himself. His time would come. He would still be number one.
The expensive rock was on its way. And then… Valentine! Oh he would pay!!!
He consoled himself with the pleasant thought - the 69-carat diamond was beyond anything store-bought, and with it Lucy ought - to be…
His! It was almost a guarantee!
"Valentine O Valentine… It will only be a matter of time. Until Lucy will be… all mine…" he murmurs and caresses the cliché [that he had to say] with a coin-counting cackle, even as he considers how best to deal with this debacle.
Still. Right now. Even though he had all his ducks lined up in a row… perhaps he could still make things hard for that so-and-so… that annoyingly handsome and charismatic CEO!!!