Chapter 322

The questions were sharp, no doubt about it. But Gregory didn’t seem flustered at all. He gestured for me to come closer with a hook of his finger. “Lean in. I’ll tell you.”

I moved a few inches. “Go ahead.”

Given the limited space in the car and with no one else around except the driver, all the secrecy seemed a bit over the top.

He moved a bit closer, a mischievous twinkle in his eyes, testing the limits of annoyance.”I just can’t stand people who are too slow on the uptake.”

I straightened up, glaring at him. “So, should I be thanking you for enlightening me?”

“I wouldn’t mind,” he said with a polite smile.

He always held a cheeky demeanor like that. But I couldn’t discount his assistance earlier. I lowered my gaze. “Thanks for what you did back there.”

His fingers tapped casually against the windowsill. “Even if I hadn’t shown up, they would’ve let you go eventually.”

I smiled bitterly. “But not without making me suffer a bit more.”

Myers family wouldn’t let things slide so easily. With the scandal blowing up online, Dorothy would vent all

faint as if he had seen through it all. “The longer you stay with the Myers family, the more they expose themselves online. Dorothy

“Is he now…”

hand, he was linked to the Myers family by marriage. On the other, he was stirring trouble with them

me a sidelong glance. “Worried about your

sarcasm was

him. “Do you think Bryant would go to

safe, way too cautious,” Gregory lounged

shrugged. “Then

he carried. Ever since Timothy’s passing, the entire future of the Ferguson Group rested on his shoulders. How could he, and why would he,

my response. “Didn’t peg

shot back, mimicking his

a hint of threat. “What

as if daring me to repeat any disparaging word, ready to cast

but to bow my head. I smiled, trying to sound sincere. “I was saying you’re a once–in–a–lifetime kind of guy. Staying faithful to a fiancée lost for over

“Go on. I’m all ears.”

climb the

drifted outside to an alley nearby, sparking a memory. I turned to Gregory and asked, “Can we stop by that alley for

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