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“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-”

by Aiden’s

Come over here so I can feed you some

tried to cover the phone speaker so that Alexander couldn’t

her body. “Guys, we should get

she had the audacity to hang up on him. Did she have a guy at

at Alexander. “Was

let out a gasp, and Alexander turned to her. “What do

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bit her lip

said in a rough, commanding

and then getting in a car and leaving with him,” Gai

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

He wanted to take over the questioning because Alexander’s face was

said that he was, um, muscular and that

scoffed at his

said as he flipped his signal

didn’t actually believe the words that she was saying, but after everything she had revealed about Olivia,

eyes at

three drove for a few minutes in an uncomfortable silence, and Richard shifted in his seat. “Well, it seems like

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only added to the uncase in the

wanted to scold his bodyguard for daring to crack a joke like that. But he knew that Richard wasn’t the one that he was

mad at.

with him,” Alexander

he pulled up the app and leaned in closer to see where she was. His hand tightened around his

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