Chapter 175

“I understand,” Gai said meekly and then sat back in her seat to avoid the two men’s eyes.

An uncomfortable silence filled the car, and Richard tried to engage Alexander in conversation, but his attempts were futile.

Alexander was stewing with silent rage in his seat. He crossed his arms and stared out the window. He couldn’t believe that Olivia was spreading rumors about his dating life to his other employees. How unprofessional was that?

After five minutes of getting worked up about Olivia gossiping behind his back, Alexander couldn’t take it anymore. He had to act. His jaw clenched with anger as he took his phone out of his pocket and jabbed Olivia’s name on his screen. As the phone rang, the car remained silent until he forgot that there were two other people in the car. Right now, this was between him and Olivia.

Olivia was at a rest stop with Ava and Aiden. They had stopped for a quick lunch in the middle of their road trip. Her heart slammed against her chest as she looked down at her phone. It was Alexander. Hopefully, he wasn’t calling about checking his work emails. She had brought her laptop, but she wasn’t sure she would have reception here.

“Hi, Alexander, how’s your trip going?” Olivia said when she answered her phone.

She moved away from Ava and Aiden and shielded her eyes from the glare of the sun. Cars passed her by on the busy highway, blowing her long hair behind her.

“Hi, there, Olivia,”

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His cold tone made her freeze. Immediately, Olivia knew that something was wrong.

“Is everything alright, Alexander?” she asked and swallowed nervously.

“No, everything is not alright,” he replied in a clipped voice. “I’m calling to ask if untrue rumors amuse you?”

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Olivia’s eyebrows drew together in confusion. “I have no idea what you’re talking about,” she admitted honestly.

This just made Alexander even more angry. “I want to know if you find pleasure in spreading rumors about your boss.”

“Alexander, honestly, I have-”

interrupted by Aiden’s loud

here so I

swooped with panic. She tried to cover the phone speaker so that Alexander couldn’t hear Aiden, but she hung up the call

“Guys, we should get back on the road,” Olivia told the

hang up on him. Did she have a guy

looked at Alexander. “Was that a…guy’s

out a gasp, and Alexander turned to her. “What do you know?” he

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her lip

said in

a car

her stomach for selling out her friend. But Gai had never done

to take over

was, um, muscular and that he looked between the ages of eighteen

at his

guys then,” Richard said as he flipped

actually believe the words that she was saying, but

glanced at Gai in the rearview mirror, and they narrowed their eyes at each other.

“Well, it

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only added to the uncase in the

like that. But he

mad at.

where she is going with him,” Alexander muttered quietly to

he pulled up the app and leaned in closer

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