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

Jules spoke up.

is indeed late. I must retire—an

had no intention of being the

on Nate’s research team, making any slight


Waldo squirmed in mounting discomfort, caught in the purgatory between

eternity of silence, Jayden finally mustered

considering the hour, perhaps

gaze languidly, fixing Jayden with an inscrutable stare. In that piercing

“Stay here tonight.”

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that be

Jayden’s reply

now. What impropriety could possibly exist? I’ll have

the suffocating tension and rose abruptly to

the weight of Carl’s

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