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.

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

like this was entertainment. “Maybe we should distract her,” he

walked in like she had

flirting with rich men,”

I go out

rolled

miss a

should be more like Matthew.” Matthew

her hand on the table, leaning in with

she said, her tone as casual

likes a good boy… because she keeps wondering when they

that I almost felt guilty for being there to see

let out an involuntary

approval, like the night had finally gotten interesting “I’m going to

someone asking for silence in a

it,”

All four of us stopped at

at me like it was polite to

we just

table and stood behind Matthew, watching

A list of folders.

Dates.

Abbreviated names.

Icons.

think that a woman’s life and lies could fit inside a

stood in

plan

The execution… not