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Hazel had complicated feelings toward Sebastian.

No matter what had happened, they had once been best friends. She gave him a nod in acknowledgment.

Since their last

last dinner at

Hidden Bites, Sebastian hadn’t seen her again.

Remembering how he had just told someone the night before that he missed her, only to leave Seattle the next day, he quickly explained, “My grandma fell ill. Right after dinner that night, I rushed back to Los Angeles.”

He hadn’t intended to leave without a word, but the biggest reason was that he didn’t have her number.

Gabriel’s sharp gaze lingered on the two of them, his guard instantly up. Sebastian greeted him first.“Mr. Campbell, we meet again.”

Gabriel’s tone was indifferent.“Mm.”

His cold eyes barely skimmed over Hazel before he turned to Sebastian.“Move.”

Sebastian stepped aside.

Gabriel strode out of the elevator with his two assistants, heading straight for his room. Hazel hadn’t brought any other assistants along, just Johnson.

room was

right

across

from

next hers, directly

to Sebastian’s.

Gabriel’s Seeing Hazel, Sebastian didn’t rush to leave.

He dismissed his two assistants, then casually followed her toward her room. “Haze, my grandma knew I’d be seeing you and asked me to bring you some gifts.” “They’re in my room. I’ll go grab them for you.”

Hazel’s grip tightened around her purse, her steps faltering slightly. She looked at Sebastian’s calm face.

Do I have something on my face?”

had no idea what his grandmother had done to Hazel in the past. Not surprising.

suppressing her emotions.“No rush. Just leave it there.” Abbie had once been a dear friend of Hazel’s grandmother. She

had forced Hazel was

But three years later, it Sebastian sensed her sudden coldness. Thinking back to Hazel’s abrupt departure all those years ago, a sense

studied Hazel’s face carefully, but her expression was already composed, giving nothing away. She clearly didn’t want to talk about it. With a simple farewell, she entered her

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entered the suite next door.

Menu

hallway, deep in thought. Then, with quick

need a

listened to his assistants go over his schedule, though his thoughts were

can go,”

before

the room.

what he had uncovered about Hazel’s past.

competitions together. But right before college entrance exams, she had packed a small suitcase and returned to Nyack. She took the exams in a rural county and became

government scholarship.

to Abbie’s bank account. Throughout her four years of college, aside from

the pay was higher, she went.

leaked had an explanation–Hazel had taken that

alcohol she sold earned her

100 grand, the commission alone

for six months and became the undisputed sales champion, earning millions

Hazel had sacrificed over those six months. The amount she had transferred to Abbie was nearly all of her part–time earnings. No wonder she had looked so thin and pale when he first met her, like she

to the crumbling school building in the distance. It was the only middle school in

by the floor–to–ceiling window

town.

ago, it had grown much busier.

less than two hundred bucks to her name, unable

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in the

passed, and things had improved,

thens

hotel. She didn’t call Johnson. She wanted

Night fell.

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