Chapter 270
He didn’t say it aloud, but the bitterness was palpable.
Even though Gavin was staring at me (already heading toward my apartment), Alden felt the resentment.
te patted Gavin’s shoulder. “Your progress bar’s been stuck for ages. Do a good deed–might bring you lock
Savin scoffed. “You think playing cupid for you is a good deed?”
Why not?”
More like a sin.” Gavin shot him a look. “Chloe’s right–clean up your own mess first.”
Chloe’s Perspective
glanced up at the sound of the door. Elara stood there, still in her outside shoes.
Don’t expect a welcome,” I groaned, sprawled on the couch after a brutal client meeting. “I’m dead today.”
Your ex…” Elara gestured across the hall, amused. “Wants you for hotpot. Saw your Instagram post.”
frowned. “How is he seeing my Instagram?”
blocked him ages ago!
Then it hit me.
Elara voiced my suspicion: “Maybe he used a burner account?”
Exactly.
¡winging my legs off the couch, I trudged to the door. “Let
You’re actually going?”
go.”
Jara seemed surprised, probably ready to make excuses for
Free hotpot? Hell yeah.”
dragged her toward the door, not even changing shoes.
Besides…. if Elara’s treating Mrs. Sinclair, having Aiden owe her a favor couldn’t hurt.
When we walked in, Aiden shot Gavin a don’t you dare–sabotage–me look.
Gavin responded with an ice–cold stare that could freeze hell.
I’d already stocked the fridge with fresh groceries, ready to cook for Elara when she got home.
Now? All ruined.
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Hotpot.
Hotpot for four.
Double the romance–pot.
We settled around the table with practiced familiarity–Gavin and I on one side, Chloe across from me. Alden naturally slid in beside Chine, facing Gavin.
Aiden rummaged through Gavin’s kitchen and produced a brand new divided pot. “I bought a bunch of soup bases, pick to.”
I could’ve sworn Aiden didn’t eat spicy.
But before I could speak, Chloe cut in, a sweetly dangerous smile on her face.
The numbing spice and the fire breathing chili.”
My words died in my throat.
Beside me, Gavin chuckled darkly, “I’m in.”
Talk about kicking a man when he’s down.
Aiden’s eye twitched. He turned to me like I was his last lifeline. “Elara… you want those too, right?”
I caught Chloe’s barely–there nod. “Yeah. Those.”
The meal was… brutally satisfying.
By the time we finished, Aiden looked like he’d run a marathon through hell. The moment Chloe made her exit, he bolted too–not even waiting for Gavin to
kick him out.
Third–person POV
The knock came exactly as Chloe expected. She opened the door to find the usually polished fourth young master of the Sinclair family flushed red–whether From spice or fury was hard to tell.
Fourth Young Master Sinclair.“Her voice was ice. “Something else?”
The casual title he’d always hated tightened his jaw. “You never called me that before.”
n college, everyone else sucked up to him with that formal nonsense. Not her.
Back then, she’d whisper “Aiden” against his shoulder–her clear voice turning tender in ways that unraveled him completely.
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