The sales assistant served them two cups of coffee, but Zoe didn’t drink a drop of it. Instead, she trained her gaze at Gabriela.

Gabriela collected her thoughts and spoke, her eyes staring off into the distant past, “Back then, it was Ava who got in touch with me at the beginning. She said that Mason wanted to make a deal with me.”

She raised her cup of coffee and took a sip, her lean fingers were shaking slightly.

By the time she spoke again, she was smiling bitterly. “I hated him very muc