Chapter 60

Eva

My blood turned to ice instantly. Now I completely understood her reaction and the reason for her hesitation. There was no way she would react that way, was it the other drunken waste of his father. Especially when she alongside everyone else was aware of our past.

‘Viktor came. He came here to see me.’ The sentence alone left me reeling.

Lucy's voice brought me out if my reverie but I couldn't identify what she'd said,

“What?” I asked,

“I couldn't dismiss him. Not directly at least, because of...” she bit her lip, cutting herself off but I already knew. She didn't need to complete her sentence. The answer was simple.

Whether or not they were at their downfall, he was still a Reynolds and the name still held weight, at least for now.

“I thought telling him you were away was enough but he kept on coming. I told him the truth that you left on a vacation and weren't going to be in the office in the near future. After that he stopped coming. He hasn't been here for the past four days