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“She h she didn’t seem as catty or mean as Gwen
Gwen pressed her lips together in an unflattering, I-just-sucked-on-a-lemon kind of pucker “Well, if I would have seen it, my scissors would have accidentally cut it to pieces”
“She really does look beautiful,” the other younger girl said, her voice alave her a complete head-to-toe makeover And fro, they’re absolutely beautiful”
Gwen rolled her eyes “For God’s sake, Claire, stopover her outfit We look far more beautiful in these custom-made dresses fro, it can’t even coowns”
Hunter wanted to beg to differ and set the girl na was ten ti to do with the gowns they earing, but the elegant poise of the blonde compared to Gwen’s obnoxious disposition
“Ahhh,” the older wo her lips “See, what did I tell you? Security is telling her to leave”
“Thank God,” Gwen said, shaking out the voluown
Hunter shifted his gaze again to the blonde just outside the charity event The crestfallen look he saw on her face was so genuine and real it , protective kind of emotion
“Exactly,” the elder woman said, her voice laced with satisfaction “We don’t need any other coht when you and Claire need to be the center of attention to find a wealthy man”
“Oh, irl na a hand to her heart “That man is so hot and I call dibs on him”
Gwen laughed sardonically “What makes you think you’d catch the eye of a sophisticated, wealthy, good-looking man like that?”
Were these wo, over him, no less—as if he’d even be interested in either of them, and he was so done with their cattiness They had no idea he was standing right beside the pillar in their peripheral vision, but in a moment of spontaneity, he decided to make his presence known and stop the blonde beauty before she could leave Clearly, she’d been invited and had been deliberately left off the RSVP card, and Hunter was suddenly in the mood to deliver a bit of poetic justice to the trio of feleeful that security had turned away the woown
Hein between the three wo the widening of Claire’s and Gwen’s eyes, along with their startled expressions, as they realized who he was
He strode out the double doors and down to where security was set up for the evening, knoithout a doubt that the three wo to see what transpired Despite all the reasons Hunter knew he shouldn’t get involved in this less-than-ideal situation, he was undeniably intrigued by the blonde He also desperately needed a distraction for the evening considering as transpiring with Theodore, and she clearly could use a date for the evening
Halfway to reaching Michael, the blonde wo shunned alible, and Hunter didn’t hesitate to stop her