Chapter 134

“What’s up?” Gavin exchanged a few words with Natalie but she remained silent, prompting him to glance at her again with concern. “Are you okay?”

Natalie turned to look at him, taking a few seconds before responding in a hushed tone. “It’s nothing, just feeling a bit under the weather.”

Gavin decided not to pry further since Natalie wasn’t forthcoming.

The silence lingered between them all the way back to the Prestige Penthouses. Natalie remained quiet throughout the drive.

As soon as Gavin’s car came to a stop, she grabbed her purse and hurriedly opened the door to get out.

“Want me to walk you up?” Gavin, noticing her unsteady steps, quickly got out of the car and offered.

“There’s no need, you better get going. It’s getting late.” Natalie replied in a rush.

Gavin was baffled by her urgency, everything had been fine earlier at the James family dinner. He wondered if something had happened, or perhaps King had assigned her an urgent task.

Scratching his head, Gavin watched as Natalie disappeared around the corner of the flower bed before returning to his car.

out her access card from her purse. Just as she grasped it,

up to see Brian standing not far ahead, Brian was always impeccably dressed, with not a hair out of place. But now, his suit was unbuttoned, his tie

and Brian curled his lips into a

future wife caused quite a scene at

heart skip and quickly tried to explain, “It wasn’t like that, this

to her, his gaze fixed on her. As he drew closer, Natalie caught the strong scent of whiskey on his

asked in a low

chin.

in a

a long stare, Brian reached out

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her smartphone from her purse, handing it over

the power button for a few seconds and then released it, but the

the James family dinner, an engagement she couldn’t miss,

a few seconds of silence, she asked quietly. “Did you do something to my phone?”

simply placed the phone back in her purse with a light chuckle, responding with a question, “Didn’t you say you’d rather marry a vegetable?

hours ago, he was reflecting on his regrets about the years of

to his sympathy. Perhaps his overtures

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