Jamie exclaimed, "They managed to scare us off. How embarrassing and humiliating!"

"You're kidding, right? It'd be even more embarrassing to stick around any longer," Lydia countered as she suppressed the pain in her wrist.

Lydia then retrieved her phone, opened the browser, and found a picture of Jonah Taylor, the president of KS Group.

Jamie peered over her shoulder. When she saw the picture, she gasped, "Isn't this the guy we saw earlier? He's the president of KS Group!"

Lydia's eyes darkened as she gazed at the picture, feeling beads of sweat forming.

Initially, the man had seemed familiar, but she couldn't place him. Then, as she left through the exit, it clicked—he was one-half of the gay couple that had recently made headlines.

"That can't be right. The president of KS Group is gay. How could he also be the one claiming to be Rose's boyfriend? They just bear a striking resemblance."

be so lucky as to

shaken, attempted to reassure herself. She murmured, "But they look so alike. Anyone would have thought

frantically searched her drawer for nitroglycerin pills.

behind her, noticing her continued distress even after taking

proud posture now slumped slightly. She slowly tightened her grip

pursed his lips, his gaze turning

can't scrub away the stains of my past. You must be really

could finish speaking, she felt a warm, reassuring presence enveloping her from

came over him, Silas expressed his

Rose soon found herself yielding to the comforting embrace, her body

was pretending?" Silas murmured,

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