Dumping My Ex to Flash Marry the Untouchable CEO novel Chapter 469

Chapter 469

To his surprise, Aurora was actually kind of adorable in private.

“Alright, my bad,” Jan said with a tactful smile.

Then, with deliberate phrasing, he asked, “So… has a friend of yours been going through something lately?”

That instantly soothed Aurora’s earlier tension. She suddenly gave off the air of a proud Persian cat–poised, elegant, and just a little aloof.

“Let me think…”

The truth was, Aurora didn’t quite know how to bring it up.

She kept telling herself it was something between the two of their

Involving too many outsiders might just make things messier.

But at the same time, if she kept fighting this battle alone without ever confronting it, what good would that do?

So, she framed the situation as if it had happened to a “friend” and explained it to Ian from that angle.

“So, your… I mean, your friend suspects that her husband and his so–called childhood friend having lunch together is actually. just a cover for something else–and the whole thing might be deceiving you… I mean, your friend?”

Ian tried to summarize the tangled story, but under Aurora’s

sharp gaze, quickly corrected himself from “you” to “your friend.”

If not for that glare, he would’ve gone all in and just talked about solutions directly.

But since Aurora was technically his boss, and his direct superior, he had to keep walking that tightrope.

“Honestly, I think with something like this, you–uh, your friend should just talk it out. If they’ve decided to stay committed, they can’t keep tiptoeing around like

this.”

His firm tone caught Aurora off guard for a second.

“You’re saying I–my friend–is the one being difficult?”

She almost started questioning herself. Was she the

one making this more complicated than it needed to be?

Did that mean she should be the one to start the on,

to ask directly?

But wasn’t it Lucas who had once promised there

“Alright, I hear you. You can get back to work.”

With a cheeky wink, he slipped out and gently closed the door behind him.

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