Chapter 405: The Misunderstanding
Evana anxiously paced her hotel room as she waited for the visitor records from the airport back home, her stomach in knots. However, even without the plans, she had a sinking feeling that Lucien had definitely been there. After all, the timeline matched.
Before that fateful day, despite how busy they had been, Lucien had never missed her call, day or night. And he’d never ignored her messages. No, what had he said when she’d asked him why he did not reply... He’d said, ’I did reply, Evana... with silence."
Her gut had warned her that something was wrong, but she’d attributed it to her own guilty conscience, ignoring the warning signs. The pit in her stomach deepened as she wondered how she was going to explain things to him.
Why couldn’t he have stayed and confronted her? Why leave? It would have been so much better if he’d stayed there and accused her of cheating on him rather than doing this. She’d have felt much better if he’d accused her instead of breaking things off like that.
Finally, her secretary emailed her a video and the records. her hands trembled as she checked the email and closed her eyes. Her nightmare had come true. Steeling herself to look at the video, she pressed play.
The video unfolded before her eyes, capturing Lucien’s arrival at her outer office with a bouquet of flowers in hand. The familiarity of the scene intensified the ache in her chest. He walked in with purpose, slowing down only to place the flowers on her secretary’s desk. The tenderness in his gesture echoed the Lucien she once knew and the smile on his face shattered her.
And she zoomed in on the video when she noticed him pausing at the door. The transformation as he stepped back a few moments later and walked away. Throwing the phone aside, Evana crumpled to the floor, now aware of what he had witnessed. her weakest moment.
She already knew what the video would be showing next. Her walking out of the office with Henrik Pold. But that wasn’t what was important. It was her slightly mussed up make up that would have given away what had happened inside.
Desperately she wiped her tears. She needed to explain things to Lucien. He must believe that she’d cheated on him. No wonder he’d offered to take for them to take a break.
She thought back to the discussion they’d had last night. Taking a break meant that manybe they wanted to explore other options. So, Lucien probably thought that she wanted to be with Henrik...
In a desperate attempt to salvage what remained of their unraveling connection, Evana dialed Lucien’s number. She couldn’t let this mistake continue.Each unanswered ring heightened the desperation within her, as the realization of his unreachable phone sank in.
She looked at the time. Lucien and the others must be on the way back by now and would probably reach by evening. Would he call her back then? Or would he ignore the calls like he’d been doing since announcing the break. Shaking her head, she stood up. She won’t give him a chance to ignore her now. She was not going to lose him because of her own foolishness.