Love After a Steamy Affair

Chapter 259: She Doesn’t Want to Be Coupled With Him

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Gabriel stood in front of the window with a cigarette between his fingers. Through the gap in the curtains, he looked at the secretary’s office outside. His deep and dark gaze was fixed on Serenity.

In the morning, Caleb reported his schedule for the day and the results of the investigation. He also personally called the director of the hospital to confirm that Serenity was indeed pregnant. According to the timeline, the child was undoubtedly his.

The first thought in his mind was that she had asked him to meet her at Chorley Park two days ago to tell him the news and then use the child to threaten him.

However, the director told him that she had made an appointment for an abortion next Wednesday, so she did not intend to keep the child.

If other women were pregnant with his child, they would definitely ask him to take responsibility or for a large sum of money. As for her, not only did she not tell him, she even wanted to get rid of it secretly.

Even if she had a child, she did not want to be involved with him. This knowledge made him very frustrated and even a little unhappy.

The way he looked at Serenity became more complicated. In less than two hours, he had finished a pack of cigarettes. The entire office was filled with the smell of tobacco, so strong that it seemed impossible to dissolve it.

Caleb knocked on the office door and entered. He smelled a strong tobacco smell and could not help but frown. “President Jones, there’s a video conference with the Americans at 10:30 a.m..”

Gabriel retracted his gaze and walked towards his desk. He pressed the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray. “Cancel it.”

“Johnson is ready,” said Caleb hesitantly. “It’s not good to cancel it rashly.”

Gabriel returned to his office chair behind his desk. After a few seconds of silence, he said calmly, “Let her take the minutes.”

Caleb knew who this ‘her’ was referring to. He responded and left the office before informing Serenity.

At 10:25 a.m., Serenity entered the president’s office with a notebook. The moment she entered the office, she frowned slightly. How many cigarettes did he smoke to have such a strong smell?

There were still five minutes before the video conference. At Gabriel’s request, she went to the pantry to make him a cup of tea. When she returned to the office, the meeting had already begun.

She moved a chair over and sat down beside Gabriel. On the other end of the computer was the conference room. Johnson and the higher-ups were sitting at an oval conference table. Johnson was reporting the seasonal situation in the United States.

Johnson spoke in English. Although Serenity had lived in California for three years, she did not quite understand the meaning of some unfamiliar technical terms and did not dare to translate them casually. Therefore, she recorded the parts she did not understand in English.

Gabriel was not in the mood to have a video conference. When Serenity sat beside him, he recalled the photos sent by the unknown number and Caleb’s investigation. Hence, he had been in a daze since the meeting.

However, he was leaning against the back of his office chair with his hands crossed over his chest. His slightly lowered gaze made him look like he was thinking, so everyone thought that he was listening and thinking about the problem.

Serenity’s pen ran out of ink as she was writing. She leaned forward to take a pen from Gabriel’s pen holder and accidentally touched Gabriel’s arm that was resting on the armrest of the office chair.

Gabriel turned to look at her. As they were in a video conference, she could not speak, so she pointed at the pen holder.

Gabriel retracted his gaze with an indifferent expression. He frowned slightly when he saw what she was recording from the corner of his eye.

When Serenity saw his gaze fall on the meeting records, her face was flushed with embarrassment. She quickly wrote a few words in the blank space beside her: 1 don’t know what that means.

Gabriel took the meeting records from her hands and circled the English words on it to translate them. Then, he returned the notebook to her..