Given the choice, Skylar wouldn’t see him.

“Give me three minutes. I’ll leave after saying my piece,” she said, putting on a bold face.

Is she playing hard to get? I’ve seen many women like her. Tobias glanced at his watch. “You have two minutes and fifty seconds left.”

“I-I can’t talk when there are so many people here,” Skylar said, scanning the surroundings. “Could you at least ask them to leave for a short while?”

“How demanding.” Tobias dispersed the crowd with a wave of his hand. Then lifting his wrist again, he said curtly, “Thirty seconds.”

“The check you gave me was real. I’ve been cheated, and I can’t just let this slide. Only you can prove that the check doesn’t belong to him. Do you understand what I’m saying?” Skylar explained vaguely in one breath.

 

“Are you done?” Tobias asked flatly.

Skylar nodded. “That’s roughly what I’m trying to say in thirty seconds. How about you give me a little more time?”

 

to get me

this time. As expected

to help you, nor am I interested to do so. Business is all about making an equivalent exchange. So… what can you offer if I were

of

the sky was dark, looking as if it

that I was never here,” she

meant to make a deal with the devil.

Skylar’s retreating back, Tobias stood rooted to

Hotel, presidential suite. Come look for me tonight,” he said

in her tracks and smirked. Is he for real now? A hotel? Why is he

she said and waved goodbye

around this woman—girl, to

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