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.

butterfly flapping its wings. Her delicate waist leaned backward with his hand supporting

to end at the same time that they completed their dance move. Their cooperation with each other

banquet immediately gave them a

helped her to stand up before moving away

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

dance, thought that he would not reject a second dance and

Gabriel only said a faint “sorry” before taking his champagne and

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

easily got hungry. Besides, she drank only alcohol for the whole night

she was about seventy percent full before using the napkin to wipe her mouth. Yet,

look and realize

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

why are

good impression of him and, thus, purposely ignored

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

Hall today because both families’ ancestors knew each other, but

of these rich people, ever since she started working at the magazine agency, she’d cultivated a habit of reading the news.

he liked to idle as well