Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire

Chapter 708

Gwen’s POV

The café sat on a quiet side street.

I picked the table all the way in the back, with a clear view of the door and the counter.

An old habit.

When you grow up being watched, you learn to watch first. The man arrived without rushing, without glancing around too much, like someone who knows that people in a hurry draw attention.

Dark suit, carefully scruffy beard, slim briefcase.

Not a lawyer’s.

The kind carried by someone who preferred his work to stay off paper. “Ms.Kensington?” he asked. I nodded. He sat down.

“You can call me Lawrence,” he said.

“You were referred to me.”

“I know,” I replied.

“And I won’t be using your name outside this room.” One corner of his mouth almost lifted.

around my cup like it was the only thing I needed to

custody

to be

changes the procedure and the price,”

breath, pulling up the list that had been organized in my head since

mother, Renee, is playing

assault claim against me.” I saw

“Assault?” he confirmed.

it

going to give you emotional details.I’ll give you what matters.She’s using it to build a

“Instability.”

“Yes.” I continued.

of negligence in our home.Not hers.Ours.” I made sure to say

and…” he left the

child’s father.Nick

like this is some

the disappearance incident,” he

“That’s part of it too.” I tightened my grip on the cup. “She manipulated the press to turn a simple fact into a crime,” I said.

ran away because she wanted to go back to her father.She tried to come home.And Renee turned

he repeated, still writing. “She implies it.She never accuses in a way that can easily come back to bite her.But she plants the idea