Thalia walked past without acknowledging them, her face expressionless.

After she had gone, Laurina nudged Asher’s arm. “What a coincidence! Imagine running into your ex on the same flight.”

Asher lowered his eyes and remained silent.

“Oh, look at you with that brooding expression. You’re impossible,” Laurina teased.

Early the next morning, Thalia arrived at the golf course with the head partner.

She was dressed in a white sports outfit with her hair in a high ponytail, looking youthful and vibrant. Langdon Johnson’s eyes lit up the moment he saw her.

The head partner made the introductions: “This is Mr. Johnson from Caresol Group. Mr. Johnson, may I present Thalia Winters, a solicitor from our firm.”

Thalia smiled politely. “Pleased to meet you, Mr. Johnson.”

That gentle smile made Langdon Johnson’s heart flutter.

“I had no idea your law firm employed such young and beautiful solicitors,” he remarked with a broad smile.

Thalia smiled without responding, while the head partner chuckled appreciatively.

“Do you play golf regularly, Miss Winters?” Langdon Johnson asked.

Thalia shook her head. “I only know a little. I wouldn’t say I’m an enthusiast.”

Sensing an opportunity, Johnson’s smile widened. “That’s no problem at all. I’d be happy to teach you.”

“What’s everyone discussing that’s so amusing?”

A male voice interrupted their conversation.

Thalia froze.

Asher approached, accompanied by another man.

Johnson immediately adopted a deferential tone, all traces of his earlier flirtatiousness vanishing. “Mr. Blackwood, you’re here to play golf as well? We were just discussing hobbies with Miss Winters here. I got a bit carried away

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with the conversation. I hope we haven’t disturbed you?”

Thalia’s hands tensed at her sides as she raised her eyes to meet Asher’s gaze, addressing him with formal politeness: “Mr. Blackwood.”

The head partner rarely spent time at the firm and didn’t follow entertainment news. Though Laurina’s face seemed familiar to him, he was unaware of the rumored relationship between her and Asher, and had no idea that the CEO of Blackwood Industries standing before them was Thalia’s ex–boyfriend.

was adept at reading social cues. Seeing the respectful attitude the Caresol CEO showed this young man, he immediately understood that this elegant, dignified young gentleman must

respectful greeting: “Mr. Blackwood, a pleasure.”

gaze lingered

was wearing makeup today, and with her high ponytail and sports outfit, she looked like a university student–beautiful and full of energy, impossible to

beneath her short skirt, and his brow furrowed

the company of these two older

taking off his jacket to wrap around her waist

considerable effort, Asher’s expression remained impassive as he responded with a curt “Mmm”

“I’m terribly sorry, Mr. Blackwood. I’ll be more mindful.”

Asher said tersely before

come to the golf course today to accompany

instrumental in helping Asher swiftly secure the deal that had undermined Tom Malfoy’s project in

adopted an expression of discovery. “Asher,

each other?”

but several years earlier, he

time, Asher had told him that the woman in the photo was the girl he had

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Thalia’s engagement ceremony, congratulating his friend on finally

“We’ve broken up.”

when everything was going so well? Didn’t you wait more than a decade to finally be with her?”

and handed Asher a golf club.

want her caught in the crossfire. Being with me

been seriously injured, forcing them to cancel the event. Later, he had learned the kidnapping was orchestrated by the Blackwood’s adopted daughter, with Tom

that point on, Tom Malfoy had been actively seeking revenge against the

make another move against

Alexander about Tom’s assassination attempt and how Randolph had been pushed down a staircase.

is Britain, for

tracks well. The police couldn’t

better be careful, then. That rabid dog

“I’m aware.”

decision, but what a

eyelashes, his heart stirring.

to be together despite

No.

only

resolved, he would

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Thalia. “Do you

distance as she replied: “I know a bit, but

family background and assumed she was just an ordinary solicitor, dependent on

few thousand pounds was negligible–barely enough

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