He had come to persuade her to break off the agreement with Nathaniel, but he couldn’t say that in front of Nathaniel.
So, he used work as an excuse.
“It’s about the construction of the film and television base. I went to Angle Intl to find you, but you were not there. I learned that you were in the Roberts Group, so here I am.”
He was here to discuss business.
Lucinda turned to Nathaniel.
“You haven’t visited your mother and sister since you returned, have you? I’ll ask the bodyguards to take you to there. You can comfort them. You don’t want them to worry, do you?”
Was she trying to send him away?
Was she choosing Brinleigh over him?
“I’m not going anywhere!” Nathaniel was enraged.
Regardless, Lucinda called the bodyguards, and they took him away.
When the men passed each other, Brinleigh stared at Nathaniel’s bruised cheek. It was very swollen. Brinleigh smiled provocatively, as if he had won this round.
Nathaniel left the office reluctantly. They took the elevator to the parking lot, and then the bodyguards shoved him into the car.
By this time, Nathaniel’s jealousy had subsided, but he kept thinking about what Brinleigh had said about knowing Lucinda for years.
Cyrus had said something similar. He had assumed it was simply to irritate him, and he didn’t think too deeply about it.
Now, Nathaniel wondered whether he had missed on something about Lucinda’s past.
In Lucinda’s file, it said that she was raised in a welfare house.
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But now, two men from the most powerful families in Stastle claimed to have known her since childhood.
Could she also be a member of one of Stastle’s big families?
Then why did she live in that little welfare house in Forden where she chanced upon Logan?
Later, she married Nathaniel, and then suddenly divorced him. When he went off the grid, she snatched the Roberts Group and the Roberts family’s mansion, even asking Graham to have Nathaniel killed…
Was everything premeditated from the very beginning?
But if that was the case, then was she just pretending when she asked him to compensate her?
Asking him to compensate her for her three-year suffering was just a ruse to prevent his suspicion from being aroused, was that it?