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That was really excellent for both of them.
In the meantime, Lena had signed up to adopt Dave, and Gwen had promised that she would personally see to it that the process was done as soon as possible. If it were up to Mother Gwen alone, Lena was sure that she would have gotten Dave in a week’s time, but unfortunately, that was not the case. There were rules and laws and many legal steps to undergo, especially for a young single woman like her who had just recently built up some sort of career. Moreover, it was totally unfair that couples were preferred more in these cases.
Damien left Lena off in front of her apartment after dropping Lola off later that night.
Lena got out of the car and was going to go.
“Hey, Lena,” Damien called her back.
Lena glanced around and looked confused.
He said, “We’re going to get your test results tomorrow night,” and lines of stress appeared on his forehead.
Lena remembered the date. Yes, she had an appointment with the doctor the next day.
“You forgot, didn’t you?” “Damien smirked and squinted his eyes playfully.”
“What else do you do besides remember everything for me?” Lena said with disdain.
“Of course, babe,” Damien said as he started the car. He moved forward and playfully kissed her cheek. Lena pushed him back, laughing, and slammed the door shut.
She saw him drive away and sighed. She turned to go inside her apartment building, but she stopped on the steps to the front gates. She saw a shadowy figure in the corner of her eyes around the corner of the building. She turned her head quickly, but the man was already walking away, his back to her.
Kellen didn’t know why he was standing there in the shadows where he could see Lena’s house.
Kellen convinced himself that he had found out where she was in Velden because she was still his wife and could plan ways to get money from him. He held onto that idea tightly, even though it sounded stupid to him because she hadn’t shown any signs of wanting to take money from him yet.
When he saw Lena last that day in the store, her eyes were completely lifeless. The image scared him and has been troubling him ever since. It made him wonder whether he had been wrong to judge her.
But then he got angry when he saw Damien drop her off. They looked so close and free with one other. His jaw clenched. Of course, she had found a new boyfriend. And here he was, looking like a fool, thinking he could have done something wrong.
First Ryan, and now Damien! She was really happy to play with rich guys.
What else could he want from her?
He couldn’t stop thinking about those horrible pictures that showed her actual self. They made his head throb, which was an indication that a headache was approaching.
Kellen turned around and ran out into the night, his thoughts full of pictures of his wife—he growled—of Lena in the most personal manner with Ryan and Damien.
He really needed a drum full of brandy tonight!
Lena took a moment to calm down and put on a blank face while she took a long, shaky breath. Then she got out of the car and looked up at the Hart’s Velden branch office on level eight. It was a place to work and make money, but for her, at the moment, it was an inferno she was going to walk into willingly.
“I still have that pocket knife in my bra, Lena,” Lola replied with a smug look. “Don’t worry, girl.”
Lena looked at her from the side. “You should take it off now and leave it in the car. The security is very tight at the front gates, and you’ll be seen as a terrorist or a murderer.” She pointed to the security officers who were using metal detectors to inspect individuals.
“Wow, potato! Lola screamed, “But I don’t look like a terrorist or a murderer, do I?” Hey
Lena shrugged. “I don’t think they’ll care how good you look if they catch you with knives and blades.”
“I’d better leave my lifeline in the car,” Lola mumbled as she pulled the knife out of her bra and tossed it back in the car when a man walked by and gave her a leering look.
The girls then headed to Kellen’s office. Lena’s worries were calmed now, and she had to appreciate the minor problem with Lola’s knife for that.
Lola looked very uncomfortable now that she didn’t have a weapon to protect herself and Lena from the crazy suspect, Kellen Hart. At one point, when they finally got off the elevator and reached level eight, Lola started cursing Damien for sending them to check out the sample of their next order.
Lena replied, “Damien just trusts us so much, Lola. If he didn’t have that cranky Mr. Harry with him, he would have come himself.”
Lola complained, “It would have been better to deal with Mr. Harry knowing I had my knife to poke his eyes out than to deal with the crazy Mr. Hart.” She whispered the last part softly, worriedly, and looked at Lena’s face.
As they got to the waiting room outside Kellen’s office, Lena kept her eyes on the woman at the counter.
So even Lola can see it.
It seems that Lena didn’t really know how to wear a mask with no expression after all.
Or maybe it was because Lola was worried. Some individuals, no matter how insane they are, have this strange ability to read waves of emotions. It’s creepy and interesting at the same time.
After the secretary told them that Kellen was caught in an important meeting in the office at the last minute, they sat across the room and waited.
Minutes went into seconds. The secretary, a thin brunette, appeared like a pleasant lady who would be gracious enough to have staff bring them drinks. Lola was a happy camper, eating the cream cookies without a care in the world while reading through her phone.
But Lena was the exact opposite. Sitting still made her nerves a mess again.
We only know how hard it is to wait when we are waiting.
“I’m happy that my only daughter and you are dating, but only if you don’t do anything stupid, Hart.”
Kellen sat stiffly in his soft leather chair, which had a harsh surface with sharp needles sticking out of it. He stared at the elderly business mogul Isaac Arthur’s sneering visage across the desk.
How was he going to tell Isaac that he and Selene were not really together?
Who would have thought that his old college girlfriend would show up as a drunken one-night stand soon after his wife shattered his heart? Then she would send her father after him to make him marry her!
He had the worst luck ever!