Emmeline tugged at her little hand, but Abel had a death grip on it and wouldn’t let go. It was starting to hurt, and she winced, “Abel, ease up! You’re going to bruise me!”

Abel finally loosened his grip a bit, but Emmeline still couldn’t free her hand. She huffed in frustration and gave up, resigning herself to being held captive.

Without missing a beat, Abel wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close, enclosing her in a tight embrace.

“It’s so good to have Emma back,” Ethan chimed in, trying to diffuse the tension. “Let’s celebrate with lunch today. My treat, everyone’s invited.”

“I’m in,” Abel spoke up first. “Ethan’s right, it makes sense. Count me in.”

Benjamin and Janie exchanged a glance, thinking to themselves,

What’s Ethan meddling in now? Everything was going fine.

But could they really argue with his proposal now?

“Mr. Benjamin, Janie,” Ethan turned to them. “Do you think it’s a bad idea?”

Benjamin reluctantly nodded, “It’s fine, I agree.”

raised her hand, “I’m in

Ethan grinned. “Emma’s back and it’s definitely worth

question remained, could this

choose?” Abel eagerly offered, “I’ll take

chimed in. “Let’s go with the Struyria

Banquet it is,” Ethan

nodded in agreement, thinking to himself that the Struyria Banquet was the perfect choice. The last thing he wanted was to run into Adrien at a Ryker Group hotel. Having Benjamin on one side and Adrien on the other would only lead to trouble, and he didn’t

made him feel jealous and insecure. He didn’t want to be a ticking

already past 10 am, and it would take an hour to drive to the Struyria Banquet. They all left

Bentley. Emmeline didn’t drive, so she had to sit in Abel’s

leaned over to fasten Emmeline’s seatbelt. But just as he

behind with his bodyguards, unwilling

at the Struyria Banquet, it was already past eleven o’clock. They took

a chair for Emmeline, while Abel took her purse

these two men competing

outdo each other in showing

one who should have

achieve by meddling in this

did Mr. Benjamin take you last time?

injured,” Emmeline explained, “so Ben took me to

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