"Ayuan...are you inside?"
Huangfu Jue’s voice, filled with concern, rang out.
Gan Yuan’s breathing tightened, and Moses caught her expression in his eyes, a cold sneer flashing in the depths.
"You want to try? Fine...then let’s try. I will go tell him now who it is and see what your Duke’s reaction will be."
Turning around, he stepped toward the door.
Gan Yuan spoke from behind him, "Just let me try once...please, Brother Moses!"
At this moment, Moses’s fingers had already gripped the doorknob.
With just a light twist, the door would swing open, and he could reveal all her secrets to Huangfu Jue. But now, Moses, who was always decisive and detached, hesitated.
If he really opened this door, she would surely never call him that way again.
Thinking of this possibility, his fingers tightened fiercely on the doorknob, the metallic handle creaked softly under his grip, and Gan Yuan’s heart clenched tightly.
She had not yet had the time or chance to tell Huangfu Jue about Moses. Seeing her with Moses, she could not begin to guess what his reaction would be.
Moses took a deep breath, suddenly let go of the doorknob, turned around, and walked briskly to her side.
"The truth will prove to you that I am right! I give you one last chance, if you’re wrong this time, you must come home with me."
In a low voice, Moses stepped past her, pulled open the door of a stall, and stepped in, slamming the door hard behind him.
Huangfu Jue called out again.
"I’m here!" Gan Yuan called back, glancing at the stall Moses was in, and hurried to the door.
Outside the door, Huangfu Jue was worriedly watching, with Will, Abel, and others standing beside him.
Seeing Gan Yuan emerge, he immediately stepped forward, grasped her shoulders, and peered into the washroom.
"It’s nothing, I just felt a bit unwell." Gan Yuan reached out to hug his arm, "Can we go back now?"
His sharp blue eyes swept past the slightly ajar door of the woman’s washroom behind her, lingering for a moment on the reflection of the stall in the mirror.
From his angle, he could just see the stall Moses was in, the door closed but the clear shadow of a foot showing overhead—the kind of shoes that could not possibly belong to a woman.
Huangfu Jue withdrew his gaze and raised his hand to caress her face.
Turning around, Huangfu Jue walked her into the corridor, with Abel following and starting-to talk cheerfully.
"Gan, you definitely wouldn’t guess, but I almost beat Elroy just now, it was only that I messed up the last shot."
"That’s too bad." Gan Yuan smiled.
"I wouldn’t tell you that I did it on purpose," Abel winked at her, "that is out of consideration for you; otherwise, I would have beat him until he was down to his last penny."
"So..." Gan Yuan glanced at his body, only dressed in a shirt, and teased with a smile, "did your suit and tie run away on their own?"
"Actually..." Abel spread his hands, "thanks to your luck, if we hadn’t come looking for you after hearing you were in trouble, I would have even lost my pants."
He chuckled, but Gan Yuan felt a slight sinking in her heart.
From Abel’s words, it was clear that someone had informed Huangfu Jue, and that’s how he found her here.
Just now, the only ones who knew she was here were Annie and Moses. Annie wouldn’t have deliberately sought out Huangfu Jue to clash with; could it be... was it Moses?!
Huangfu Jue stopped before the stairs, "Abel, tell Duke Mark that we’ll discuss the partnership another day."
"Alright." Abel responded with a smile, one hand in his pocket, while the other waved to Gan Yuan, "Gan, see you another day."