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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.

Reenie has been stubborn since she was little. Besides her father, whenever something happens, she only turns to Geoffrey for

husband, one of the few family

when you become her boyfriend and marry her will she

he started to pull out the

then Maureen said: “Alright,

added: “Besides,

childhood bond, Maureen saw him as an

only return the

didn’t dare. Afraid that speaking his mind might

too well, knew she felt no

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when she loved someone,

walked to a nearby restaurant

afraid the stalkers would tell Geoffrey, she and Gareth

side, Geoffrey had

phone, the fire in

went out;

stifled inside, not

moment, a call came in;

tears of joy: “Geoff, there’s news from Los Angeles; they

his grip

“I know.”

hung up the

At the restaurant.

the exquisite dishes but had

if it was because of Geoffrey or if

or buy a pregnancy

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he’s Geoffrey’s twin brother,

Gareth said.

“Nothing else?

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