Chapter 145

Chase rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, keep pretending you don't care." Allen snorted. "Please. Autumn was the one who called to invite me to dinner, not the other way around. Since I happened to have a business engagement, it makes perfect sense to bring her along." Chase couldn't even be bothered to argue with him. In the past, whenever the company ran into trouble, Allen would never discuss it with Autumn, let alone invite her to join a business meeting. Clearly, he was making an effort to get closer to her now. Besides, that day he went to pick a fight with Elliot, Autumn had tried to stop him, and Allen had barked about knocking her out of the way. Yet in the end, he hadn't even touched her. In other words, he was all bark and no bite. Chase still remembered how, when Elliot had swung a wine bottle at Autumn's head, Allen had pulled her back without a second thought and taken the blow on his arm instead. These past few days, whenever Chase accidentally brushed against Allen's