Missing Mrs. Lowry: The Billionaire’s Wakeup Call

Chapter 33

Megan was caught off guard.

Due to some business with Victoria Leach, Bennett hadn’t exactly been Mr. Congeniality with her lately, and just the other night, he’d given her a hard time.

And now he was offering her a ride

Instinctively, Megen felt there was an ulterior motive. She took a step back, her tone distant. “Bennett, you said you’d stop giving me a

hard time.”

Benisett just looked at her, assessing. Finally, he let out a few words, almost carelessly, “I did say that.”

And with that, he drove off, his black Land Rover leaving twin trails of exhaust in its wake.

Megan thought the Bennett issue was settled.

But that evening, she saw him again on the 56th floor of Regal Bolt, sitting at a card table with Timothy and a few others, conspicuously without the usual entourage of starlets or models.

When Megan took the stage, Bennett glanced up.

gesture didn’t escape

casually laid down a winning pair with a flourish, “Bennett, you’re

tone was indifferent,

you kidding? I wish you would come by every day and spread

that, Bennett’s lips curved in a

arrived. Dressed as if he’d come straight from home, in a crisp black shirt and slacks beneath a navy peacoat, his tall

back to Bennett.

his expression

What’s

out a pack of cigarettes from his coat pocket, and casually placed it on the coffee table before speaking. Tm taking Megan back to the

widened,

you still in a position to ask Megan for favors? I heard through the grapevine from Lucia that you two are on the brink of divorce. Hasn’t Megan’s settlement proposal already landed

his marital woes. He lit

and while Bennett’s face remained impassive sometimes a man’s intuition is particularly sharp, especially when the woman

here because of

smoke, Sullivan’s gaze deepened

was clad in a sleek black cocktail dress, her bare shoulders tantalizing. Her legs were a work

away and said, “Let’s play cards. Same stakes as usual? One hundred

hand?”