Chapter 285 More Than Meets the Eve

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“Fine, leave the termination to Thorne Corp–now you can relax, right?” Tessa said, a little sour. They didn’t know what she was truly capable of, sure; but still it stung that they hadn’t believed in her.

“Why are you helping us?” Avery cut straight to the point.

This wasn’t going to be easy to handle. If Landon was offering to help… it had to be because of Tessa, right?

“Because you’re friends with my girlfriend,” Landon said simply, pulling Tessa possessively into his arms.

All at once, every member of Avery Band turned to stare at her. “Tessa, is that true?”

Avery and Steven looked especially tense, waiting for her answer.

Landon leaned in close, deliberately letting his breath tickle her ear. “Well? What do you say?”

The warmth of his breath made her ears instantly turn red. Even without a verbal reply, her reaction gave everything away.

The cold, aloof Tessa–the one who used to keep everyone at arm’s length–had never let a man hold her like that without punching him into the ground, and now she was even blushing.

Avery and Steven couldn’t help the bitter twist in their chests.

wasn’t ordinary, but they hadn’t imagined she’d be

There was no way they could compete with

that.

flustered she looked, Landon chuckled and finally let her go.

from Landon’s embrace, Tessa finally looked more at

Nathaniel to

arrived, the first thing he saw was the bloodied, broken

Thomas before–an infamous rogue with no line he wouldn’t

captain of the criminal unit, to personally step in. So until now, he’d left

Ethan

Simpson, are we really dispatching special forces for a guy like this? Isn’t this

snapped, “Cut the crap. Command told us

came

just saw Ms. Sinclair. What would she

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get it wrong!” Simon was a total fanboy; there was no way he’d mistake her. But since she was with a few other people, he

“I’ll go check.”

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