Chapter 1652


Chapter 1652:

Pivoting to leave, Leland glimpsed Corrine wielding a slipper, clearly having just swatted an intruding insect.

The unfortunate bug lay smashed against the wall.

Corrine’s earlier words suddenly replayed in his mind, unleashing perhaps the most excruciating embarrassment of his entire existence. Especially considering the accusatory attitude he’d harbored toward Nate…

Shame-faced, he cast a furtive glance at the man, relieved that Nate seemed unbothered.

Downstairs, Carl sipped his coffee with feigned casualness, his eyes darting repeatedly toward Nate.

The hour had grown late, yet the man showed no signs of departing. Could he possibly be intending to stay the night?

Carl set his cup down deliberately and drew a theatrical breath.

“Oh, it’s already past nine. How time escapes us.”

pointed glance at the three men seated across from him,

Jules spoke up.

late. I must retire—an early meeting demands my

no intention of being the

depended heavily on Nate’s research team, making any slight against him a


Jayden and Waldo squirmed in mounting discomfort, caught in the purgatory

of silence, Jayden

considering the hour, perhaps you

piercing moment, Jayden’s

“Stay here tonight.”

at g

ghost of a

that be

reply came

practically family now. What impropriety could

could no longer bear the suffocating tension and rose

felt the weight of Carl’s and Waldo’s contemptuous stares boring into his

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