Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire

Chapter 714

Gwen’s POV

The next day, I went back to Kensington headquarters.

Not because I was pretending things were normal.

Normal ended the moment my name made headlines next to the word kidnapping.

And because we had agreed.

No messages, no calls, no dramatic voice notes.

In person.

Renee wasn’t just vindictive, she was smart.

She understood how a small piece could turn into an avalanche if you pushed it down the right slope.

And I had no idea how far her reach extended.

I only knew that underestimating her was a luxury I couldn’t afford.

If Renee got her hands on my phone, on a message thread, on any sentence of mine taken out of context, she would turn it into evidence of harassment.

I took a breath and decided.

No ammunition.

Just action.

So I walked into the building with my heart in my

to the executive floor and, for a

hallway was still mine, but the chair at

My name was on

was sitting

I went straight up without

what was at stake wasn’t a

was

I pushed the door open, I found

looking too irritated for someone who had just

in the armchair like this

my chair

and flashed the kind of smile that made me want

“Great,” he said.

has arrived.” Then he turned

bag on my old sideboard and went straight to the desk, letting myself fall into the chair across from Matthew like it could hold me

my voice calmer than I felt, “I’m assuming it didn’t go as planned.” heard my own sentence and hated how rational

deal that fell through, not an attempt to get a

I continued, because I needed to

Anything.

An unknown number.

asking us

it is, means someone

toward the window,

didn’t ring,” she

didn’t ring,”

the