“All right. I understand.” Ben raised his head to look at Lupine, who was getting closer and closer to him, and he snapped back to reality. “Tell Mr. Nacht that I’ll be back soon.”

“Oh, okay.”

After ending the call, Marino cast a tentative glance at Zachary and said, “Ben said he’s going to come back soon.”

“Okay.” Zachary then made a dismissive gesture.

With a lowered head, Marino left, closing the door behind him quietly.

In the dark, Zachary continued to smoke as he mulled over his emotions. He had instantly realized that Charlotte had asked Lupine to invite Ben out so that she could sound him out.

smart man; he should have realized that

Nevertheless, he still went.

he wanted to use that way to relieve his guilt in leaking out the secret so that Charlotte could go

of everything, by meeting Lupine, Ben was prepared to become

call and tell Ben that he knew he had

trouble comprehending what they meant. On the other

and Lupine were about to do.

snapped back to reality and regained his

trick was bound

scheming, Charlotte could never

done all those

meant that she was

“Ben!”

“Lupine!”

first time the two had met in private, let alone on a

not help but

Zachary and had seen countless scenarios, it was the first date of

you cold?”

look at Lupine, thinking, She’s so pretty today. With a little bit of dressing up,

were the words he did

“I’m cold,” Lupine grumbled.

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