Chapter 7
Bonjour, New Life
Sarah makes a bold decision to embrace her new life with Antoine. She begins to integrate her old self with this new passion, finding a balance between her career and her heart.
The scent of freshly baked croissants and strong coffee had become my morning perfume, a far cry from the sterile, ink-stained air of my old office. Paris, oh Paris, you’d worked your magic on me. It had only been a few weeks since that fateful midnight encounter in Montmartre, a few weeks since Antoine Dubois had swept into my life like a rogue wave, pulling me from the wreckage of my old existence and into a dazzling, sun-drenched sea. And now, here I was, sipping my café crème at a small bistro table, the city buzzing around me, and Antoine’s hand resting warm and firm on mine.
“You are thinking,” he stated, his eyes, the colour of a summer sky after a storm, twinkling with amusement. He had a way of seeing right through me, a talent that both thrilled and unnerved me.
I smiled, a genuine, unrestrained smile that felt as natural as breathing now. “Just… marveling. At all of this.” I gestured vaguely with my free hand, encompassing the lively street, the charming architecture, the sheer, intoxicating aliveness of it all. “It’s so… different.”
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