After accepting the gift, Leonie couldn't hide her envy. By the time the two of them made it back to the villa, it was already past midnight.

Once she'd showered, Gwyneth snuggled under the covers first. When

Hawthorne came out of the bathroom and saw her still wide awake, he was a little surprised.

Earlier, when he'd left the room, she'd already fallen asleep or at least he'd thought she had. Turns out, she really had drifted off.

"Still awake?” he asked, towel-drying his hair as he slid into bed and pulled her into his arms.

"Yeah. Not-" Gwyneth instinctively nestled closer to him. In the quiet of the night, they lay there, wrapped up in each other's warmth.

"I have to head to Echo City tomorrow," Hawthorne said. "I'll be tied up with meetings for a while. If you get bored, you should hang out with Leonie-she's pretty much always free."

He paused, thinking it over. "Just promise me you'll stay away from anything risky. Other than that, you two can do whatever you want, go wherever you like."

Gwyneth hadn't realized he was leaving so soon. She looked up at him, already feeling a pang of reluctance at the thought of his absence.

in Echo City?" she asked

Echo City. She wondered if

important conference I need to attend in person," he

by her side, but with the Everhart family's affairs still requiring his

there too. Stein

noncommittal "Mm." Gwyneth immediately

the kind of man everyone in the capital is eager to

only things he'd heard about the Langford family

my mother's brother,"

face and suddenly noticed the faint

had unintentionally. landed himself a golden ticket just when he had a few matters he needed

in the evening, Gwyneth had made a point of dressing up, slipping into the lingerie Leonie had picked

in conversation, Gwyneth forgot all about her secret plan. She drifted off, her head resting on Hawthorne's shoulder. As he tucked the blanket around her, his eyes accidentally fell on what she was wearing and suddenly, a rush of heat hit him

on earth

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