Page 66 of Billionaire’s Heartbreak

I lowered my gaze before he caught me staring. “Do you want another one?” I asked Kai.

He looked at the box. “I’m already on my third.”

“That’s why I bought twelve.” I smiled. “Eat.”

He shook his head but reached for another.

I glanced toward the window again. The man was still there, and now someone was standing beside him.

My stomach tightened.

“How did you find this place?” Kai asked. “Is it on some kind of list?”

I couldn’t look at him as I noticed more people appearing. Not together. That was what made it frightening. One stood near the corner. Another leaned against a building. Two more were farther down the pavement, positioned at different angles, all watching us.

“You and your list.” I forced a smile. “Wendy and I stumbled across it the last time we were here.”

I drew in a slow breath. My heartbeat wasn’t getting faster; it was slowing, each beat heavier and clearer. I’d felt this before. Back when I was with Dannie, there had been moments when a room suddenly went quiet or someone looked at me a second too long. I hadn’t understood it then, but now I did.

My body understood danger before my brain could name it. We were being watched. Deliberately.

I took another bite, keeping my expression calm. Kai and Dave were still eating. Would Kai be furious if he knew this had been my plan? I’d deliberately brought us back here, into a part of the city where Dannie’s people might still have influence. Had I exposed myself just to force someone to come looking for me?

He had to know something. He wouldn’t have followed me here otherwise.

Would he?

Then the people outside began to move—not hurriedly, but casually toward us.

All of them.

My stomach dropped as one man crossed the street, another followed, and then another. The old couple behind the counter had disappeared. I looked toward the narrow passage leading to the back, but there was nothing.

My hand tightened around the pastry until the fragile crust crumbled between my fingers.

Then someone appeared from the side. He crossed the pavement and walked straight toward the shop, without hesitation or any attempt to hide. He pushed open the door, and the little bell above it gave a soft chime.

I froze.

Because I recognized him.

And suddenly, the strange feeling I’d been carrying since we arrived made perfect sense.

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Kai

I had thought it would be nothing more than a simple meal. June wanted something real—something she could choose for herself instead of packaged food from the penthouse or another order from a delivery app.

Something familiar. Something that belonged to her world, not mine.

After what I had done—drugging her without warning—it made sense that she no longer trusted anything I placed in front of her.

So I followed.

Not because I agreed with her decision, but because every instinct in me refused to let her out of my sight again.

The shop sat in a part of the city that didn’t feel like mine.