The novel was too long and Rosalie was unable to finish reading everything that night. She only managed to zoom past a few hundreds of thousands of words.
She was reading pretty quickly. The author’s writing was simple and easy to read, without much complexity in the prose. Despite that, she only managed to read slightly less than half of the total word count.
She inserted a bookmark and flipped to the final page.
She realized that Angie left a comment on the final chapter too, in which she gave the author a thorough scolding.
A normal reader would post comments targeting the plot, but Angie kept targeting the author and even banded together with a few other readers to insult the author.
After reading through Angie’s comments, Rosalie had a rough idea of the kind of person Angie was.
Rosalie yawned, exhausted beyond belief. She could hardly keep her eyes open. She was about to put her phone down when she heard her baby’s cries from next door.
Rosalie immediately got out of bed and walked next door. As she stood outside the door, she could hear Justin coaxing the baby who soon calmed down.
Rosalie really didn’t want Justin to be bothered by Steve the entire night, so she knocked on the door.
“Justin, may I come in?”
“Sure, come on in.”
Rosalie opened the door and saw Justin carrying Steve in his arms as he sat on the edge of the bed.
“Rose, are you done reading?”
“Just a portion of it. It’s too long and I can’t finish reading it tonight. Give me the baby, I’ll carry him back so you can sleep,” Rosalie said.
“It’s fine. Leave the baby with me. Hurry back to bed.”
“How could I let you do that? He’ll disturb you from your rest if he cries again.”
“He won’t. See how obedient he is now. Listen to me and go back to sleep.”
Rosalie yawned, thoroughly exhausted. “Then… I’ll go back to sleep. If the baby cries again, come to me.”
Justin nodded.
The author was also generous enough to grant Rosalie a meeting.
After agreeing on the time, Rosalie headed out with Justin and Steve to meet the author at her hotel.
At the hotel lobby, the author sat on the couch sipping some coffee. Her laptop lay before her on the coffee table.
Justin waited in the car with Steve while Rosalie entered the hotel alone.
When Rosalie arrived at the lobby, she spotted the author at one glance and approached her.
The author was a rather pretty lady with a tall and slender figure. She had an air of elegance and grace that added to her aura.
The author shook hands with Rosalie and invited her to take a seat.
“I didn’t expect to meet one of my readers here. I was just done writing the latest chapter and was going to publish it later. Oh yes, this is for you.”
The author handed Rosalie a bottle of cold brew tea.
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