<b>Chapter </b>182


    “No, I am not,” Alexander said calmly.


    Ava gave him a skeptical look, but she seemed willing to hear him out. Alexander quickly exined how Olivia had heard from the grapevine that he wasing to Ld to meet a woman when that was simply not true.


    Ava nodded her head as she listened and seemed to understand. Her cool demeanor immediately thawed, and she leaned in to whisper in Alexander’s ear.


    <i>“</i><i>So</i>, you’re messing with Olivia tonight for her believing that you would go on a date with another girl?” Ava asked.


    Alexander smirked and winked.


    Over at the next table, Naomi’s despair was growing like a well watered flower. Her eyes filled with tears once again as she watched Alexander and this neer whisper andugh with each other. She wished that they would just get a room and put her out of her misery.


    The final straw was Alexander winking at the woman. Naomi burst into tears and ran out of the restaurant as sadness and hot shame made her heart ache. Her friend, Tanya, immediately stood up and went after her.


    Tanya caught up with Naomi, who had made it outside and was crying on a bench in the hotel’s small garden. One streetlight illuminated Naomi’s beautiful face.


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    Tanya put her arm around Naomi, whose shoulders were shaking as she cried. She rubbed her armfortingly, and <b>for </b>a while, the only sounds were Naomi’s sniffles and Tanya muttering soothing words. Then, Tanya took out her phone.


    “I think I might know something that will cheer you up,” Tanya said with a mysterious smile.


    She showed her friend an online gossip blog about Alexander Green sleeping with his secretary, Olivia.


    Naomi’s eyes widened. She had juste back from living in Ennd for a year and didn’t know much about all the drama surrounding Alexander and Olivia that this blog wrote about.


    As she dried her tears using a tissue that Tanya had given her, she handed the phone back to her friend. Tanya had been wrong. That blog hadn’t cheered her up at all.


    “Olivia and Alexander really seemed to have a connection,” Naomi admitted. “It seemed like everything that he had done tonight was just to get Olivia’s attention because it seemed like she had been on a date with that younger guy she was with. Did you see the way Alexander and Olivia looked at each other? They have actual chemistry.<i>” </i>Naomi sighed and wrapped her arms around herself. “I never even had a chance with Alexander Green in the first ce.”


    Tanya snorted as she looked down at the gossip blog that had posted a ttering picture of Olivia. “All this skank is to Alexander is a body to keep his bed warm at night. Olivia is a vixen who uses her looks to con rich men into buying her thing. They don’t have a deep connection. Those two are surface


    level.”


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    Chapter 130: Alexander’s Assumption


    *Author*


    Back inside the restaurant, Ava and Alexander were still in the middle of a conversation.


    Alexander picked up his wine and red at the young man that Olivia was eating dinner with. He couldn’t ignore the way his insides burned with jealousy when he looked at them.


    “What is Olivia’s rtionship to that boy?” he asked Ava, then took a sip of wine.


    Ava’s eyes widened with realization. She looked away from Alexander on the fake pretext that she was thinking his question over. Ava secretly smiled to herself at how hard Alexander was gripping the stem of his winess. She was surprised that it didn’t shatter. Ava immediately understood that Alexander was extremely jealous and was misinterpreting Olivia’s friendly dinner with her brother for a romantic date.


    In only a matter of seconds, Ava decided to y into Alexander‘ s wrong assumption. Maybe then Alexander and Olivia would admit their true feelings for each other. Ava knew that there was nothing like a healthy dose of jealousy to help move a


    rtionship along.


    Ava leaned in like she was telling Alexander a secret. “It’s Olivia‘ s first date with this guy,” she muttered. “I’vee along to supervise and make sure that the college boy is the perfect gentleman to my <i>friend</i>.”


    When Alexander’s face turned the color of a tomato, Ava had to bite her lip to keep fromughing. Thankfully, she managed to


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    <b>keep </b>a serious expression on her <b>face</b>.