Kim reserved the top two floors of the Hilton Hotel in Hucksburgh. About a hundred security guards protected Gwynn and watched over the exits at all times.

She had just finished her work in the presidential suite and reported to Gwynn, “I’ve made all the necessary arrangements, Ms. Gwynn. You’ll be perfectly safe. I’ll go over to Charles’s villa and give him your business card. I think he’ll pay respect to Mr. Noah and agree to meet you.”

Underneath the crystal chandelier, Gwynn rubbed her eyebrows.

She said softly, “You must’ve thought that I was afraid of putting myself in danger because of all the security guards I brought with me. That’s not the case, though.”

Kim hadn’t the foggiest clue what she was talking about.

She smiled faintly. “Now that Noah is imprisoned, Charles isn’t going to entertain me. For that matter, even Archibald wouldn’t do anything to me now. He thinks I’d run out of options and go back and grovel to him.

“That’s why I brought these security guards w