“All right. I understand.” Ben raised his head to look at Lupine, who was getting closer and closer to him, and he snapped back to reality. “Tell Mr. Nacht that I’ll be back soon.”

 

“Oh, okay.”

After ending the call, Marino cast a tentative glance at Zachary and said, “Ben said he’s going to come back soon.”

“Okay.” Zachary then made a dismissive gesture.

With a lowered head, Marino left, closing the door behind him quietly.

 
 

In the dark, Zachary continued to smoke as he mulled over his emotions. He had instantly realized that Charlotte had asked Lupine to invite Ben out so that she could sound him out.

Ben was a smart man; he should have realized that as well.

 

Nevertheless, he still went.

Perhaps it was because he could not reject Lupine, or perhaps he wanted to use that way to relieve his guilt in leaking out the secret so that Charlotte could go back to the Nacht family.

Regardless of everything, by meeting Lupine, Ben was prepared to become a traitor.

Therefore, Zachary had told Marino to make the call and tell Ben that he knew he had gone to meet Lupine.

now, Marino still had trouble comprehending what they meant. On the other hand, Ben understood them

he had gone out in secret to meet Lupine, that meant he knew about what he and Lupine were about

 

was why Ben had snapped back to

was bound to

of scheming, Charlotte could never win against

he was delighted to find out that she had done all those to figure out what was wrong with

meant that she was

“Ben!”

“Lupine!”

met in private, let alone on a dark night

could not help but feel nervous and

had been to almost everywhere with Zachary and had seen countless scenarios, it

cold?” Lupine

Lupine, thinking, She’s so pretty today. With a little bit of dressing up, she looks like a beautiful

the words he did not dare to let pass his

“I’m cold,” Lupine grumbled.

dumbly. It took a second or two before he recollected his senses. “Then let’s

on her. That way, she would be able to lean into his arms and begin their intimate

telling her that the inside of the

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