She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 165

Chapter 165 A Drunk Alan

Recalling that Kristian had once gladly accepted the woman sent to him, Toby wondered whether he should tell his boss about this.

While mulling it over, he fired off another message in the group chat. "Maybe it's just some random gossip? Kristian doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who'd pull something like that."

"You can't go by looks. Who knows what he's really like behind closed doors?"

"Pretty sure this one's legit. A few execs who had dinner with him saw him take a woman straight from Edwin." "What a disappointment."

Toby forwarded every one of those comments to himself, planning to show them to his boss the next day. Kristian, completely unaware of the buzz surrounding him, cast a cool glance at the man who'd passed out drunk. With a calm and detached air, he stood up and let Alan slump onto the couch.

Gerard, watching the whole thing, looked puzzled. "Sir, are you..."

"Take Alan to my place," Kristian said with absolute finality.

"You sure about that?" Gerard asked, uncertain.

He knew all too well that Kristian had a serious thing about cleanliness. If you weren't someone he really cared about, you didn't step foot in his home.

And now he was letting Alan stay over?

Kristian's sharp, unreadable stare didn't give anything away. "Yes."

Though Gerard was clearly confused, he didn't push.

He lifted Alan into the car.

That night, Gerard had stayed sober-unlike Kristian and Alan, who had definitely indulged.

What stood out the most was how the night had actually played out. At first, Alan had been the one egging everyone on to drink, but after the first glass, Kristian had taken the reins. Before long, Alan was drinking glass after glass without even realizing it.

By the time the clock struck nine, Gerard had delivered Alan to Kristian's place.

After settling him on the sofa, Gerard hesitated. "So, Mr. Briggs is staying the night?"

"You can go," Kristian said, his tone steady.

"You sure you're okay handling this alone?" Gerard asked, thinking that if Alan puked later, Kristian might completely lose it.

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going to change his mind, Gerard gave a reluctant nod and walked

more than once

a brief look, but didn't linger. Instead, he pulled out his phone and started typing "How

he had feelings for Freya, he

men-it was only a matter of

the search results, his gaze flickering as

meet, learn

had

wouldn't even speak to him right

so low-key that even when they were together, she rarely showed interest in material things. Aside from that one time she maxed his credit card out of spite, she hadn't ever

and toss the phone onto the

It couldn't

Alan awake. He sat up slowly, blinking in confusion, clearly unsure

composed, a faint smile tugging at his

Alan frowned, his head still

slow sip of

behave when drunk. He calmly set down his glass and locked eyes with the unsteady man. "What exactly do you know?" "You're Mina's ex-husband!" Alan jabbed a finger at him, his face flushed and his words slightly

darkened a

There it was again-ex-husband.

Alan barked, his tone heated. "Trying to use me to get to Mina?" Kristian

in his own dramatic spiral, kept going.

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into

call Gerard and have him come drag this

earth had possessed him to bring Alan here on a

from him. His drunken mind

was going to order something for your

"Hah."

out a

that's enough to take me

floor cross-legged and began his bizarre version of

Kristian was dumbfounded.

advantage of the moment, Kristian grabbed his phone again, unlocked it,

before he could make the call, it was snatched out of his

kind of hero in a fantasy flick. "You thought you could use the time I was purging the poison to call Mina? Dream

out of nowhere,

hurled the phone to the