"Why waste your breath on someone like that? Just block him already."

Leonie snatched Connor's name from Gwyneth's contacts and tossed him straight into the blocked list before Gwyneth could even react.

"Don't talk to him again. If he really does try to make you pay, don't worry-my uncle has more money than he knows what to do with."

Actually, she should have said he had everything anyone could want—and money was the least of it.

Leonie handed the phone back to Gwyneth.

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Clearly, Hawthorne hadn't doted on Leonie for nothing. That speed-she'd just welded a steel wall around him.

Meanwhile, Connor was still waiting for a reply from Gwyneth. He fired off another message, only to be met with a glaring red exclamation mark.

[This contact requires verification before you can send messages. Please request to add them as a friend.]

Connor, frustrated, nearly hurled his phone across the room-but then he

remembered Gwyneth's messages were still on it. His hand froze mid-air; he just couldn't bring himself to let go.

"Mr. Kaufman, are you all right?"

Laird eyed him with concern; Connor didn't exactly look like a man ready to jump off a bridge.

back inside

do with him, he wasn't about to chase after her and embarrass

Gwyneth sent him

barely taken two steps before his

accidentally deleted you

Women—always playing

message wiped the smile right off his face, sending his mood

responsibility for the car. Let me know what you want, and I'll take

say she'd just write him a check, but after a moment's thought, she deleted the message letter by

to name your price and he'll write you a

Connor like a

he couldn't quite bring himself to believe

him, his spirits lifted, so he didn't bother

seeing he didn't respond, wasn't about to go looking for trouble either. In any case, she figured

good-no need

and then

it look like she was shirking

to her TV drama, Gwyneth's

have some work to finish. Leonie, you keep watching-I'll

sniffling and dabbing at

"Mm, go ahead."

a glance,

was Hawthorne's domain, painted in cool shades of

had set up a workspace for

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