After dinner, Sylvia applied a light touch of makeup and slipped into her outfit for the day, ready to step out. She glanced back at Gabriel, who seemed to be tagging along, and double-checked with a playful tone, "You're really coming with me to work?"

Gabriel offered a casual smile. "You don't want me to?"

With a shrug and a hint of mischief in her voice, Sylvia replied, "Wouldn't dream of stopping you!"

They descended the apartment staircase, with Gabriel taking the driver's seat and Sylvia settling beside him. She sneaked glances at the imposing man beside her and couldn't help but giggle under her breath. It felt like she was on top of the world.

At Glory Group's headquarters, the investigator Baron had dispatched quickly got back to him. "Mr. Barlow, that Gabriel had once registered a small business in M Country, but it's long gone. No trace of where he might be running a company now or what sort of business he's involved with."

Baron let out a dismissive chuckle. "If you can't find it, it probably doesn't exist."

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on the sofa with a bandage wrapped around his forehead, and sneered, "My guys checked it out. All that talk about

his wounded pride, scoffed, "So he's

and lighting it for him, Dannis added,

contemptuous. "Sylvia's been fooled, thinking she

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a free ride, or maybe he's just playing the pretty boy? Pathetic!" Dannis added, "His looks might

his cigarette, exhaling slowly with a vicious gleam in his eye. "Sylvia's mine, that's a given. As for Gabriel, got any ideas on how to take him out?" Dannis jumped, a flicker of fear in his voice, "You want to kill him?

liked the guy!" Baron crushed his cigarette in the ashtray. "He snubbed Audrey, who was way out of his league, and acted all high and mighty. I've wanted to take him down for

type to hold grudges. Audrey had been the object of Baron's unrequited affections, but she had only had eyes for Gabriel, a score that had gone unsettled. The office was buzzing more

an empty desk outside her office and settled there. It wasn't long before the desk was piled with assorted snacks and pastries. Employees from the planning and PR departments would occasionally make a show of passing by Gabriel on their way to the

handsome!

but he's got an air about him!" "Could he possibly be

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