Upon hearing a sound, Yanis followed Ivan's gaze and looked over. Due to the lighting, she couldn't see very clearly. When she tried to get a better look, Darin's voice interrupted her thoughts. "Why aren't you going in? What are you doing standing out here?"
Yanis had no choice but to retract her gaze due to Darin's voice. "We just got here."
"Go inside, everyone is almost there," Darin said.
Yanis nodded and followed Darin inside. As they walked, Yanis subconsciously looked over again at the person who was previously standing at the door talking on the phone but they were nowhere in sight.
When Ivan noticed Yanis' gaze, he also looked over and said, "That person earlier looks a lot like Mr. Lawrence from your house."
Upon hearing Ivan's words, Yanis glanced at his face and replied softly, "He told me he was still at work when he messaged me."
"I must have been mistaken then," Ivan whispered back.
Yanis walked with Ivan into the party where all of tonight's guests were employees of Darin's company or business partners that they worked closely with on projects.
Of course there were also some close friends present as well.
"Yanis I'm going to introduce you to Vivian; she heard I was having a small gathering tonight so she came too," Darin turned his head towards Yanis and spoke softly.
After saying this he turned towards Ivan and said: "Those guys over there we've met before; go chat with them for a bit."
Ivan nodded his head saying: "Go do your thing."
After Darin left with Yanis by his side , Ivan hesitated for a moment before walking towards where Zane was standing near the entrance . As soon as he reached it , Zane walked up from one side causing them both to collide face-to-face .
Their eyes met briefly before they both spoke simultaneously: "Mr. Lawrence is this considered chasing after your wife from afar?"
Zane raised an eyebrow upon hearing this question ,"What's it matter? Do you have any objections?"
Ivan chuckled,"How could I dare object? I'm just admiring Mr. Lawrence's romantic spirit."
"And what about Yanis?" Zane didn't want idle chit-chat with him so he glanced behind him asking about her whereabouts instead .
"She went off with Darin; should be back soon," answered Ivan looking directly at Zane now ,"Did you not tell her that you'd be coming here today?"
Zane gave him an expression that seemed like 'you're asking something obvious' before replying :"Do I really need to tell her every little detail ?"Ivan cleared his throat. "Okay, let's pretend I didn't ask that earlier. But Yanis definitely saw you guys just now."
"She wasn't sure it was me."
"You followed us here so sneakily..."
"I got here before you guys did, so it's not really sneaky."
Before Ivan could finish his sentence, Zane interrupted him.
"Alright then, shall we go in?"
Zane nodded. "Let's go in."
Yanis and Darin hadn't arrived yet when the two of them entered.
Zane spotted Yanis standing nearby at a glance. "Are you here for work?"
Ivan leaned casually against a nearby table. "Otherwise? Should I be planning to run away with Yanis?"
Upon hearing Ivan's words, Zane looked up at him. "You can try."
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