Jamie exclaimed, “They managed to scare us off. How embarrassing and humiliating!”

“You’re kidding, right? It’d be even more embarrassing to stick around any longer,” Lydia countered as she suppressed the pain in her wrist.

Lydia then retrieved her phone, opened the browser, and found a picture of Jonah Taylor, the president of KS Group.

Jamie peered over her shoulder. When she saw the picture, she gasped, “Isn’t this the guy we saw earlier? He’s the president of KS Group!”

Lydia’s eyes darkened as she gazed at the picture, feeling beads of sweat forming.

Initially, the man had seemed familiar, but she couldn’t place him. Then, as she left through the exit, it clicked—he was one-half of the gay couple that had recently made headlines.

could he also

be so

attempted to reassure herself. She murmured, “But they look so alike. Anyone would have thought they were

clutching her chest while her other hand frantically searched her drawer for nitroglycerin pills. She

the office behind her, noticing her continued distress even after taking the pills. His heart went out to her,

posture now slumped slightly. She slowly

“You… saw everything.”

his lips, his

fancy designer title anyway? It can’t scrub away the

felt a warm, reassuring

his affection by pulling her into

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