Chapter 34

Chapter 34

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Yolanda was seated by the window with Charles. Then she opened Sophie’s post, enlarging the photo to lay it side–by–side with the real–life scene before her. It was a perfect match.

A faint smile touched her lips. She took a sip of juice, snapped a photo, and posted it to the private Twitter account Sophie followed. If Sophie keeps clinging to Charles, she thought, ‘he won’t have any time left for

me.

Then Charles’s phone buzzed when their food had just arrived. He took his phone and got up briskly. “I need

to take this.”

Yolanda didn’t ask anything. She simply bowed her head and focused on the food quietly.

Charles slipped out into the hallway, phone in hand. But before he could find a quiet spot, an arm reached out from the next booth and pulled him inside.

There was Rachael, who only moments before had been all sharp edges, now wrapping her arms around his neck and leaning in for a kiss.

He tilted his head away, a faint glint of amusement in his eyes.

Rachael pouted, tracing idle circles on his chest with one finger. “What’s this? Staying loyal to the wife, Mr. Sinclair?”

Charles stood tall, his features strikingly handsome under the soft lighting. “It’s our anniversary,” he said simply.

Rachael’s eyebrow arched in understanding. Anniversary rules: no funny business. She sighed dramatically, “Fine. And here I thought I’d get to steal you for a minute.”

drifted over her suggestive posture. “I heard

playing on her lips. “After a man like you, everyone else is a letdown, event celebrities. But he’s… entertaining. Besides, I invested in a

phone. Five minutes had passed. “I’ll make

eyes glittered as she twisted his tie around her finger. “Someone was just mentioning his anniversary, no? Poor girl, it must

innocent, he replied coolly.

the time–perfume, lipstick, and late nights. She’d ask, of course, but a few sweet lies were always enough. She

kissed her, and then pushed her away. “That’s enough. I have to

cold. Mr. Sinclair,”

Chapter 34

straightening his tie. Then he returned to his booth

window, meticulously cutting her

She turned to watch, her eyelashes fluttering as

of Yolanda to begin with. But the sight of her, so innocent and captivated by

took his seat across from her. “Do you like

was surprising, and no wonder Sophie was so obsessed with

the tip of her nose. “It’s our wedding anniversary. Don’t you have anything

faint, clinging scent of perfume on his sleeve-

sit here, smelling of another woman on our anniversary? And I’m suffocating under the memory of being drugged and spending those hours with Ian. I can’t even talk about

Oh, right. He hasn’t even been there. He was with Sophie and talked to me on the

“Same as last year, honey. I

reason, the words left him strangely

then, his phone buzzed. It

service in the mountains, and she was livid. She’d bombarded Charles with a series of provocative photos, but he hadn’t responded. ‘Is he really going to spend the night with his boring wife?‘ she

been hurt, that there was no hospital nearby, and that she was in agony

just before one lost their grip on something important. Tonight, it was ringing for him.

remained seated across from Yolanda, watching her slowly finish her steak, and for the first

card across the table

never a dollar more. Now, he was offering

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