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.

“Should only take a few minutes,” he said, as calmly as someone opening an ordinary door.“Nothing

like this was entertainment. “Maybe we should

Mia walked in like

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

“Should I go out

rolled

a chance,

should be more like Matthew.” Matthew raised

Mia rested her hand on

tone as casual

likes a good boy… because she keeps wondering when they stop being one."Matthew turned

So obviously that I almost felt guilty for being there to

let out an involuntary

had finally

a hand like someone asking for silence in a

“Got it,” he

of us stopped at the

“I’m in,” Paul added, finally looking at me like it was

just

to the table and stood behind Matthew, watching the screen

A list of folders.

Dates.

Abbreviated names.

Icons.

think that a woman’s life and lies

stood in silence,

plan was

The execution… not