After she finished speaking, she lifted her gaze to mine. Her eyes were glistening, full of something mischievous, and when our eyes met, she blushed and giggled.
There was no mistaking it—Eden was flirting with me.
Strange, considering we were never close.
In the past, we were nothing more than classmates who barely exchanged a greeting.
No friendship. No shared memories.
Just two people who existed in the same room.
So her sudden warmth… wasn’t from nostalgia.
No—this was about one thing: money.
I had seen the way her eyes changed earlier in the hallway when Gideon knelt. That moment told her everything she needed to know—who had the real power. And Eden, a girl who drifted from one rich boyfriend to the next, dreaming of marrying into luxury, had instantly recalibrated her targe
