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Early that morning, after everything had happened, I received an email.
It was from the office manager, the one who oversaw all of us.
His job, assigned by the brothers, was to go around every floor and check on the employees.
He informed me that my vacation had been canceled and that I still had to come to the office for at least two hours because of some important meetings.
One of those meetings was at a café today.
I knew Ragnar wouldn’t care, and he also knew I was sick.
So it had to be either Theodore or Jaguar.
If my calculations were correct, they had done it because they knew I had gone into the backyard with their brother and never returned.
Or maybe Gigi had told them about my phone being left behind. I just wasn’t sure.
I didn’t know anything. I lived too far away from them to ever guess what was going on inside the mansion, what Gigi was telling them, what lies she was feeding them, or what manipulations were taking place.
So I got ready for the day, wearing a purple dress, and headed to the café.
It was a general lunch meeting with a client.
When I arrived, Jaguar was there, but Ragnar and Theodore weren’t.
The moment I walked in, I watched Jaguar look up from his phone, then lower his gaze before looking at the clients.
The way he looked at me, it was haunting.
There was an elderly man and two elderly women sitting across from them.
I walked over, bowed my head in greeting to the clients, and then nodded to Jaguar. However, the usual spark in his eyes was gone.
"Have a seat."
Jaguar pulled out the chair beside him for me. I sat down and placed my files on the table.
For the next half hour, the clients listened quietly to my proposal, and honestly, they seemed quite impressed.
By the time I finished, they had decided to work with us and invest in our company.
At the same time, the food arrived, and the conversation became more casual.
"Well, our company will never disappoint you. We’re not the kind of people who support a woman who sleeps around, flirts with one brother, and then leaves her phone in another brother’s pants. We don’t tolerate that kind of thing," Jaguar joked.
The words hit me immediately.
It all made sense. His strange behavior had been because of what Gigi had told him, finding my phone in Ragnar’s pants.
"Oh, since you brought it up, I want to share something," the old woman remarked, as though she had just remembered something. "I know you were only giving a hypothetical example regarding your business, but it actually happens in real life too."
The old woman shifted excitedly in her seat.
"One of my friend’s sons and his brother were both being played by the same woman. She was seeing one of them, but then her phone was found with the other brother. It was complete chaos. In the end, they both cut her out of their lives."
When she finished, I turned just enough to look at Jaguar. He listened to her silently before his eyes shifted to me. I looked away.
"Well... did they let her explain?" I asked.


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