Chapter 42

Seeing that Gabrielle was being given a hard time, I stepped forward and held out the gift I had prepared. "I'm here to apologize to your boss. This box contains his favorite wine. Are you sure you don't want to let us in?" The woman let out a cold snort. A waiter leaned in and whispered to her, "Velvet, maybe you should tell Mr. Guzman? He loves collecting these kinds of things, and it looks like the wine she brought might be something special..." The woman called Velvet scoffed and looked down at me. "If this were someone else's gift, I might consider it. But coming from her? We don't want anything from this woman." Gabrielle and I exchanged a look. As expected, our gut feeling was right. Velvet clearly knew me, and she definitely didn't like me. "You're not Mr. Guzman here, which means you don't make the decisions," I said coolly. "Whether I'm allowed in or not is up to him, not you." Velvet clearly wasn't expecting me to talk back. Her face turned sour just as the door to t