Love After a Steamy Affair

Chapter 24: Friends with Benefits

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

She did not speak for a long while, and Gabriel lowered his head to look at her. Upon noticing that she was not paying attention to him, he slightly furrowed his eyebrows. “What’s wrong?”

She gave him a faint smile with her eyes shining. “I was just thinking about how everyone brought a date along, and yet, you didn’t.”

“Aren’t you here with me?” Although he said it in a teasing tone, his black eyes looked very still and calm while his voice was filled with indifference.

She curled her lips up and remained silent.

She obviously did not think that the reason he did not bring a date along was due to her presence.

Would someone like Gabriel care about how a woman felt?

Besides, they were like friends with benefits where they only took what they needed from each other.

As the music was going to end soon, Gabriel pushed her forward before pulling her back again.

its wings. Her delicate waist leaned backward with

the same time that they completed their dance move. Their cooperation with

immediately gave

up before moving away

response to the audience’s applause, her face was flushed red, which made

saw that Gabriel had already danced his first dance, thought that he would not reject a second dance and went forward to

faint “sorry” before

some food and went to the rest area. She found an unnoticeable corner and sat down to eat

she drank only alcohol for the whole night and did not eat anything yet, so by

when she was about seventy percent full before using the napkin to wipe her mouth. Yet, at this moment, someone

look and realize that it was

glass of champagne in his hand and sat opposite her in his neat and refined attire while

are you sitting here

a good impression of him and, thus, purposely ignored

the mayor, his family did not have many interactions with people from the business

because both families’ ancestors knew each other, but

ever since she started working at the magazine agency, she’d cultivated a habit of reading the news. Thus, she knew a thing or two about

to idle as well as fool