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"Ms. Swanson, are you sure it's a good idea to have dinner alone with Mr. Carter? I mean, he "Her assistant, Oliver Shaw, hesitated, leaving the rest unsaid.

Noelle, of course, understood their concern. Ethan's reputation in Vinton City was far from stellar. His insistence on having dinner alone with her tonight naturally set off Oliver's alarm bells and rightly so, "It's fine. It's just dinner," Noelle replied calmly.

After that, she opened the car door and stepped out onto the pavement. She had chosen the restaurant herself and, to avoid any potential "surprises", arrived half an hour early to order the food in advance. Ethan arrived just as Noelle finished filling up her glass with water.

"My apologies for keeping you waiting, Ms. Swanson."

"No worries. I just got here myself," Noelle replied with a smile.

Their first interaction was smooth, and everything seemed normal so far.

After a few glasses of red wine, the conversation began to shift.

"Ms. Swanson, you've been here for several months now, right?"

"Three months to be exact," Noelle answered with a smile.

you been

thanks

it by raising her wine glass and

rush to respond with his own wine glass. Instead, he simply smiled and said, "It's all your own effort: The help from others is just a

smile. "Well, then,

raised his wine

quite pleasant. Even though Ethan tried to lean closer to her several times, Noelle

the evening went on, Ethan grew somewhat displeased, but Noelle quickly shifted the conversation to another topic to divert his

the dinner finally came

there a new resort hotel opening in the outskirts of the city? If you have time, Ms. Swanson, maybe

"Sure."

refuse invitations that had a timeframe of "sometime"-after all,

she agreed readily, and Ethan's expression softened a

raining. Let me give you a

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