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.”

her hand, “I’m in

knew it,” Ethan grinned. “Emma’s back and

could this

should we choose?” Abel eagerly offered, “I’ll take care of

the expenses,” Benjamin chimed in. “Let’s go with the

Ethan agreed. “Why let someone else reap

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 want to be caught in

made him feel jealous and insecure. He didn’t want to be a ticking time bomb, ready to explode at

and it would take an hour to drive to the Struyria Banquet. They all left the CEO’s office and made their way

Lexus, while Janie joined Benjamin in his Bentley. Emmeline didn’t drive, so she had to sit in

driver’s seat, he leaned over to fasten Emmeline’s seatbelt. But just as he was about to reach for her small

feeling frustrated. Luca followed behind with his bodyguards, unwilling

they arrived at the Struyria Banquet, it was already past eleven o’clock. They took the elevator up to the designated floor and

out a chair for Emmeline, while Abel took her purse from her hands. Ethan

are these two men competing

trying to outdo each other

Abel was the one who should have

achieve by

Emmeline, “where did Mr. Benjamin take you

explained, “so Ben took

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