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Gareth had come specifically to see her, but not wanting to pressure her, he lied: “Just finished some business nearby and ran into you.”

“How’s business?”

Maureen asked.

“Very successful.”

Gareth smiled gently.

“To celebrate, let me take you to dinner?”

Maureen quickly shook her head: “Geoffrey sent bodyguards to tail me. If he finds out we dined together, he’ll be furious.”

Gareth felt a bitter taste in his throat.

“Reenie, don’t you trust me?”

Maureen looked at him, puzzled, as he continued: “I’m not afraid of Geoffrey. Your plan’s done now. We can leave. You don’t need to keep kowtowing to him.”

Maureen wasn’t sure how to respond.

It wasn’t that she distrusted Gareth, nor that she thought him inferior to Geoffrey.

She just felt their friendship had already burdened him too much.

Gareth understood her silence.

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Except for that one time five years ago when she’d begged him to help her flee abroad, she never took the initiative to seek his help through any hardship overseas.

Even when harassed by foreign men, she’d only called the police without telling a soul.

Had Zoe not reported her missing, he’d never have known she’d nearly been assaulted at work.

housekeeper found him alone and said: “Our Reenie has been stubborn since she was little. Besides her father, whenever something happens, she only turns to Geoffrey

told me it’s because Geoffrey is her husband, one

when you become her boyfriend and marry her will she

started to pull out the item he’d

then Maureen said: “Alright,

“Besides,

together, plus their childhood bond, Maureen saw him as an older

could only return the

speaking his mind might cost

well, knew she felt no romantic love

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someone, she loved openly–never

walked to a nearby restaurant to

she and Gareth

other side, Geoffrey had

his phone, the fire in his eyes impossible

went out; it was for a

stifled inside, not knowing

that moment, a call came

“Geoff, there’s news from Los Angeles; they say he

instantly tightened his grip on the

“I know.”

up

At the restaurant.

exquisite dishes but had little appetite, her stomach churning

didn’t know if it was because of Geoffrey

or buy a pregnancy test

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Geoffrey’s twin brother, and

Gareth said.

“Nothing else?

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