Chapter 291 A Picture Worth a Thousand Knives

    Chapter 291 A Picture Worth a Thousand Knives

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    “I’ll treat.” Larry said with a warm smile, but his eyes never strayed far from Sloane, who sat quietly across the table.

    They’d chosen a cozy restaurant nearby and ordered a few signature dishes. Jill, determined to keep the mood upbeat, started recounting some of her recent misadventures with exaggerated ir, filling the table withughter.

    Throughout the meal, Larry took every opportunity to look after Sloane. When a particr dish arrived, he gently nudged it her way. “This one’s really good. Try it.”

    “Thanks,” Sloane replied politely, brushing his hand away. “I can help myself.”

    Halfway through the meal, Jill caught sight of Cameron dining across the restaurant and dashed off to say

    hi, leaving Sloane and Larry alone at the tablea

    Larry noticed her lips were slightly dry and, without making a fuss, poured a ss of warm water, pushing it gently toward her. “Here. Drink some water.”

    Sloane epted it with a quiet “Thank you,” then took a small sip.

    Trying to fill the silence, Larry shifted the conversation to a recent movie he’d seen. Sloane nodded absently, but her thoughts drifted-Where had Lucas gone? He hadn’t said a word before leaving. And with Ginnie, no less. Had something happened… or was it something else?

    “Sloane?” Larry’s voice broke through her thoughts. “You’ve got a bit of sauce on your mouth.”

    “Huh?” She instinctively reached up to wipe it but missed.

    “Here.” Larry leaned in slightly, picking up a napkin and gently dabbing the corner of her mouth. His movements were slow, precise, careful-almost reverent.

    Sloane froze, caught off-guard by the unexpected intimacy. Before she could react, Larry pulled away with a faint smile. “There. All clean.”

    Unbeknownst to them, a man seated quietly in the corner of the restaurant, wearing a baseball cap pulled low over his eyes, had just snapped a photo,

    He checked his screen, satisfied with the shot. The angle was perfect: Larry’s focused, affectionate expression and Sloane’s surprised stillness made them look very close.

    His task wasplete.

    In the sterk, ss paneled boardroom, Lucas sat stone-faced at the head of the table as the CFO presented the quarterly report Numbers and projections shed on the screen

    Lucas’s phone buzzed on the table. He ns ed down noting the unfamiliar number-then slid it open Anyway

    The image loaded instantly

    Larry, leaning in close to sloane Sloane, looking dazed but unresisting

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    Lucas’s jaw clenched. His fingers tightened around the phone until his knuckles turned white. The sound of the CFO’s voice faded into static as the image burned into his mind, magnifying by the second.

    “Sir? Sir?” The secretary leaned over cautiously. “Mr. Daryl is waiting for your input.”

    Lucas stood up so abruptly that his chair scraped loudly across the floor, turning every head in the room. “Meeting’s paused,” he said curtly, already storming toward the door.

    Once alone in the hallway, he opened the photo again, zooming in.

    There was no trace of difort on Sloane’s face. No resistance. Just… calm eptance.

    His stomach twisted.

    How had their rtionship changed so fast? Had he already lost her?

    Furious, Lucas called Samson.

    “Yo, still at the office,” Samson answered casually. “Why? What’s going on?”

    “Where’s Sloane?” Lucas snapped. “And the message I told you to pass along before I left-did you even say it to her?”

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