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After Ariel checked the flight data with Elsie, Jayson arrived.
By the time Ariel reached the entrance, he looked up and immediately noticed how thinly she was dressed. The weather had turned chilly.
Frowning, he took off his coat and draped it over her shoulders. “Aren’t you cold? You’re not trying to do a runway show at the base, right?”
Ariel was enveloped by the warmth radiating from his coat. His subtle, cool scent was especially distinct.
Lately, Jayson seemed unusually attentive to her, ready to snuff out even the slightest ripple before it could grow.
“Didn’t you say it was urgent?” she asked directly.
Jayson had already opened the car door. “Yeah. Get in.”
She frowned at his air of secrecy but got in anyway.
Once inside, he started driving. His voice was calm as he said, “We’re going to dinner.”
“What about the urgent matter?”
“It’s dinner.”
Ariel looked at him with her lips pressed together.
Seriously? The urgent matter for Jayson, a multibillion–dollar CEO, was dinner? 1
He didn’t even seem to notice the irony. “It’s a tucked–away restaurant that serves your favorite
cuisine. Matt runs it. He asked me to show some support.”
Ariel didn’t bother arguing. “You could’ve just said it straight.”
“Would you have agreed if I did?”
Ariel stayed quiet.
Given her current condition, Jayson couldn’t relax if she was out of his sight for too long.
Her illness was hanging by a thread. It needed a quick resolution.
Six experts were already in Eldoria discussing the best course of action for her.
Jayson quietly pinched the bridge of his nose.
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He hadn’t actually slept, but he didn’t want to bring any negative emotions to Ariel. At the very least, if he appeared calm, she might feel a little more at ease and not be so tense or fearful about the upcoming surgery.
Ariel could sense the unease beneath the calm he projected.
She didn’t comment on it. She hadn’t expected that one day, he would be more anxious than she, the one actually sick.
They arrived near the restaurant. Parking was easy.
As Ariel stepped out, her phone buzzed.
It was a message from Cecilia. Her tone was casual, as if nothing had happened. “I’m having an exhibition. Care to show up?”
Cecilia acted as if she hadn’t gone to Betty’s birthday party to expose Ariel’s abortion and had no idea what she had gone through.
Ariel’s expression turned icy. She sometimes had to admire how shameless some people could be. They acted like the world owed them everything and that everyone should bend to their whims.
Jayson walked up behind her and caught sight of Cecilia’s invitation, which appeared polite but lacked any real courtesy.
Why Ariel? Cecilia was just using her as a pawn.
A faint flicker of dark amusement crossed his eyes.
Ariel ignored the message but didn’t delete it. Some matters weren’t over yet.
She had already quietly begun having people look into Cecilia. Since nothing had come of the hospital incident, she was preparing her own countermeasures.
Based on Cecilia’s past behavior–suspected attempts to drug her on the cruise–Ariel suspected that she wasn’t as straightforward or clean as she appeared and must have some hidden weak spots.
After pocketing her phone and adjusting her coat, she said, “Let’s go.”
Jayson, noting her composed demeanor, raised a brow.
But before they had walked two steps, urgent sirens blared from a nearby building.
The sound grew closer. Ariel stopped and glanced over.
It was a club not far from Matt’s restaurant, similarly high–end and private, catering to the same elite crowd.
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Chaos erupted inside, and people were being pulled out.
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As Ariel glanced to the side, she saw Samson stepping out. His usually cheerful, easygoing face was shadowed with gloom.
Behind him was Cecilia, being escorted out.
In an instant, Samson’s sharp eyes caught sight of Jayson.
Jayson’s expression was cool and distant. His lashes lifted slightly as he looked over.
At that moment, Samson’s face almost completely fell.
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