“What a happy coincidence!”

Gabriel was oblivious to the tension between the two women. He asked Stella to get into the car, then helped to load her suitcase.

Rayna scooted over to make room for Stella.

Shooting a glance at the elegant Stella, she said, “My apologies for catching a ride back with the two of you.”

Stella smoothed her long hair as she replied with a smile, “Don’t worry about it. I don’t mind at all. Had I known you were friends with Gab, I could’ve walked out with you just now.”

Gab?

That cheesy nickname was too much for Rayna, and a shudder of disgust ran through her body. Then, she lowered her head and texted Jefferson to let him know she had arrived safely.

Her call had been interrupted when her phone fell to the floor earlier, and she had not gotten a chance to call him again.

Getting the hint that Rayna did not wish to be disturbed, Stella knew better than to continue talking to the former.

After Gabriel got into the driver’s seat, Stella asked in a concerned tone, “I heard it has been raining in Norwal City since last Monday. You didn’t catch a cold, did you?”

“Nope. I’m as fit as a fiddle,” he said while reaching for a thermos flask on the car seat and passing it to her. “Here’s some Earl Grey tea I brewed an hour ago.”

She took the thermos flask. “Why, thank you!”

As soon as she unscrewed the lid, the tea’s sweet fragrance quickly wafted in the air.

Rayna found the smell a little nauseating and shifted further away, but to her dismay, Stella poured a cup of tea and held it out to her. “Would you like to try some, Ms. Garland?”

Concealing her discomfort, Rayna pushed the cup away. “None for me, thanks.”

shrugged and did

with her phone, she heard Gabriel and Stella chatting away. They talked about where they would have dinner that night and their plans for horseback riding at a ranch during

listened to their conversation. I don’t know whether to say that Mr. Tylinski is a veritable simp or that Stella is

into Rayna’s residential area, she opened the car

to help her with

have a quick chat, Mr. Tylinski. Your schoolmate is smart and

mean?” he

disbelief and explained softly, “I mean she’s a cunning and manipulative b*tch. She seduces others left, right, and center. Oh, by the way, how is her

believe what I read in the papers. I’d rather listen to what Gabriel has to say. After all, he has worked for

answered with a smile, there was a glum look in his eyes. “You know how Mr. Faymon is.

Rayna’s heart sank.

indeed. Women with exceptional abilities are everywhere, and any one of them could take

as Stella, there’s no way she wouldn’t know how

going on between her and Mr.

they wind up in the entertainment news? You’re a nice person, Mr. Tylinski. You don’t have to eat out of the hand

when she was away on a business trip with Mr. Faymon,”

what to say, he flashed her a bright smile and added, “Even if she does

okay with being the fallback

unrequited love,” Gabriel corrected her. “As long as she and Mr. Faymon

Rayna was silent.

waiting for her to gather her thoughts, he looked at her and hesitated for a

stared

from Cillian about how Mr. Faymon went to Hallsbay the other day and searched for you frantically. He

the urge to pummel the man. “That’s different! Jefferson is ill, so I took him abroad to find him a cure. What’s more, Jefferson and I were never a couple, nor were we in

stubbornly. “I attended a party at Yartran with Mr. Faymon some time ago, and we found out about your relationship

Why would I return

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