Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire

Chapter 719

Gwen’s POV

I moved with ease.

Greeted a staff member, slipped along the side of the gallery, and stepped into the coat check area where guests’ bags and jackets were stored with numbered tags.

I pushed open the door to a smaller room reserved for staff.

The air was different.

More stifling.

More real.

“So,” I asked before the door even closed.

“Did it work?” Matthew and Dante were sitting at a narrow table, like it was an improvised war meeting.

Next to them, a shorter man, focused, with an open laptop and cables I didn’t want to identify.

Paul. I only knew two things about him.That he understood technology very well… and that his skill set didn’t stop at what was permitted.

Matthew looked up at me, and I saw the same exhaustion that had been following me for weeks.

Only in him it always looked more contained.

Like he was afraid of wasting energy on anything that wasn’t useful.

“We got the phone,” he replied.

“Paul’s working on it.” Paul didn’t even look at me.His fingers moved quickly.

minutes,” he said, as

leaned back in his chair like this was entertainment. “Maybe we should distract her,”

in like she had been pulled by the

she’s very distracted flirting with rich men,” Mia replied without ceremony. Dante’s interest sharpened

go out there?” he

rolled

miss a chance, do you?” she

should be more like Matthew.” Matthew

rested her hand on the table, leaning

her tone as casual as it

she

I almost felt guilty for being

let out

the night had finally gotten interesting “I’m going to try that,” Dante

raised a hand like someone asking for silence in

it,”

us stopped

Paul added, finally looking at me like it was polite to remember I

just transfer

to the table and stood behind Matthew, watching the screen over his

A list of folders.

Dates.

Abbreviated names.

Icons.

strange to think that a woman’s life and lies

stood in silence,

The plan was

execution…