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136. Rivals

作者: Cord3lia
last update 最終更新日: 2026-01-06 15:45:10

Serena Vale

~•~

“So are we ever going to talk about Marcus Grant?”

I didn’t turn immediately. I focused on transferring the egg from the pan to the plate before I spoke. “What do you want to talk about?”

Nikolai had never been the jealous type. Well, at least, not that I knew of. Even when Grayson Wolfe was obviously pursuing me, they didn’t question me every two seconds and weren’t bothered when I went for one-on-one meetings with him.

But he had been hung up on Marcus Grant since Lila mentioned him in the car last night. The only reason we lasted this long without talking about him was because of sex.

“Did he approach you? Or did you go to him?”

I turned around to see that he was leaning against the kitchen island with his arms crossed. “He came to me. We talked. We exchanged cards and that was it.”

“He went to you?”

“Mmhmm.” I nodded. “He heard about my campaigns while I was working with Rafael.”

Nikolai didn’t respond for a while. He just stared at me, his lip caught between his t
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