“I didn’t know that at first.” Jared put a meal on her te and moved on, “Hayden Cohen came to me once to talk to me about a government investment, and when he was talking, Hayden Cohen received a gift from Maka Gardner, and it happened to be White Day. Hayden Cohen didn’t look well and told me that this was not the first time Maka Gardner had given him gifts. She also gave him presents on weekdays. Not only that, but she often ran into Hayden Cohen, so it’s not hard to know what Maka Gardner was thinking.”


    Amber took a breath and said, “Wow, I can’t believe it.”


    “Well,” Jared continued, “We weren’t back together at the time, and it was none of our business, so I didn’t tell you.”


    Amber fell silent for a moment, not sure what to say or whether she should feel sorry for Hayden Cohen, who was being targeted by Maka Gardner.


    Besides, she was amused.


    “ording to what you just said, Maka Gardner has been in love with Hayden Cohen for a long time.” Amber ate the dish the man had just handed her.


    Jared took a sip of wine, “Maybe. On White Day, it was two weeks after Maka Gardner took a paternity test with Mrs. Gardner in front of us. Before that, Maka Gardner had intermittently run into Hayden Cohen. So, by analogy, Maka Gardner would have liked Hayden Cohen shortly after she met him.”


    “Was it during their time together?” Amber opened her eyes wide.


    Jared paused and looked at her, “You know that?”


    Amber nodded, “As you know, the reason we found Maka Gardner in the first ce was to get Maka Gardner to go undercover with the Gardner family, but we couldn’t just let her do it as soon as we found her, there had to be a period of training, to get Maka Gardner to know the Gardner family. And the person in charge of the training was not me, it was Hayden Cohen. During the training period, Hayden Cohen met with Maka Gardner almost every day, so it is possible that Maka Gardner would fall for Hayden Cohen after a long time together. To put it crudely, Maka Gardner never had the chance to meet a man as wonderful as Hayden Cohen. And when she did, she naturally would fall for him.”


    “I think so.” Jared lifted his chin.


    Amber touched her forehead, “I had no idea what Hayden Cohen and I had nned would go so wrong. Not only did we help the Gardner family get their daughter back, we also got Hayden Cohen tangled up with Maka Gardner. I guess Hayden Cohen regrets it now.”


    Even she regretted it, not to mention Hayden Cohen.


    She was clearly trying to nt an undercover man in the Gardner family, so she could bring them down.


    What she didn’t realize was that she was actually helping the Gardner family.


    Now she was very vexed when she thought about it.


    Jared’s eyes twinkled and he didn’t say a word. He quietly filled her te with more food.


    Amber sighed, “Hayden Cohen and I are partners, and he didn’t even tell me about it.”


    “He didn’t tell you because he didn’t want you to feel guilty, because the two of you nned this whole Maka Gardner thing together.” Jared said.


    Amber smiled, “Yeah, which is why I’m kicking myself now.”


    “You don’t have to. After all, you never think about the future, do you?” Jared stroked her hair reassuringly.


    Amber squeezed the corners of her mouth and didn’t say anything.


    Jared put folks down, leaned on his head and smiled at her, “Now you believe Maka Gardner isn’t into me?”


    Amber gave him a sulky look, “At first, when I saw what Maka Gardner was doing, I did wonder if Maka Gardner was into you, and that’s why she was jealous of me. As for her nervousness, I wondered if she was thinking about making a move on you, which was why she was so nervous when she saw me. I was going toe back and argue with you for that.”


    Jared was stunned and then chuckled, “Then I would have been wronged.”


    Amber blushed with embarrassment, “Yeah, I did think Maka Gardner had a crush on you at first. But after I left the bathroom, Maka Gardner followed me, watching me from behind, looking very nervous the whole time. It wasn’t until I was in this room that she was relieved, and so I knew right then that Maka Gardner wasn’t nervous because she liked you, it was because there was something in the restaurant that she didn’t want me to know, that she was following me, watching me. Jared, what do you think made Maka Gardner so nervous in that restaurant, so nervous that she wanted to kick me out of here, and then she just kept staring at me when I didn’t leave?”


    “She kicked you out here?” Jared was a little angry.


    Amber nodded, “Yeah, in the bathroom, she just told me to leave the restaurant. How ridiculous it is! She doesn’t own this restaurant. How dare she tell me to leave?”


    Jared looked angrier, “If anyone’s gonna leave, it’s gonna be her. How did she get to kick others out?”


    And the one she was kicking out was his girlfriend.


    How dare Judy Lashley!


    Amber, unaware that the man had a grudge against Maka Gardner, nodded, “Yeah, I told her exactly that, and she looked so funny.”


    “And then?” Looking at the smile on the woman’s face, Jared’s furrowed brow was slightly better. He asked, taking a tissue, and gently wiping the corners of her mouth.


    Amber took a sip of the soup, “Then I left the bathroom and came back here. She was right behind me, and I knew it wasn’t because she liked you that she was nervous about me, but what was there in the restaurant that she didn’t want me to see. Reassured that I had seen nothing, she went into her ownpartment. And she had a veryplicated look at her room before she entered it. I can’t tell you what kind ofplexity it is. Anyway, my guess is that whatever Maka Gardner didn’t want me to see, it was in her room. What do you think was in her room?”


    Jared dropped his eyes and didn’t say anything.


    What was in Maka Gardner’s room that made her so scared?


    All over Olkmore, there was only one thing, and that was Trenton Gardner and his wife.


    What a coincidence. Amber suddenly wanted to eat Southern Cuisine and Trenton Gardner and his wife were here.


    Maybe it was the idea of Mrs. Gardner. She was from South Riverside and she must like Southern Cuisine.


    So, it was not surprising that they were here.Material ? of N?velDrama.Org.


    Amber, an Olkmore native, liked Southern Cuisine, which was a bit strange, although it could be interpreted as a personal preference.


    There was no rule, after all, that people from Olkmore couldn’t like to eat food from other ces.


    But with so many Maka Gardner-like features, Amber now had a taste for Southern Cuisine. If Trenton Gardner and his wife saw this, they would begin to suspect Amber again.


    Maka Gardner might have asked Amber to leave the restaurant in order to prevent this from happening, because she was afraid Amber would meet Trenton Gardner and his wife.


    Amber did not leave as Maka Gardner asked, and Maka Gardner did not dare to force Amber out. In that case, Maka Gardner would have to follow Amber to see if Amber would run into Trenton Gardner and his wife.


    Maka Gardner was certainly relieved that Amber did not meet them until she returned to her room.


    “What’s on your mind?” Amber nudged the man when she saw that he looked confused.


    The man’s eyes flickered, and then he subdued himself with a faint smile, “Nothing. I was just thinking that the people in Maka Gardner’s room were probably Trenton Gardner and his wife.”


    “Trenton Gardner and his wife?” Amber eximed.