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.

a butterfly flapping its wings. Her delicate waist leaned backward with

to end at the same time that they completed their dance move.

banquet immediately gave them a round of

to stand up before moving away from

applause, her face was flushed red, which made her look even cuter under

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

before taking his champagne and walking

rest area. She found

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

using the napkin to wipe her mouth. Yet,

a look and realize that it was that

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

why are you sitting here

not have a good impression of him

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

families’ ancestors knew each other, but they

overseas, although she was not aware of these rich people, 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 the mayor’s

liked to idle as well as