Husband With Benefits
Chapter 245: That Bast...

Chapter 245: That Bast...

Evangeline came to the conference room, early in the morning, anxious to get the meeting over with. After an entire night of tossing and turning, she had finally woken up and decided that she was going to go to Lucifer and find out what it was that he wanted to confess.

Whatever ulterior motives he’d had for coming onto her had been overshadowed by his feelings for her. Even if a minute percentage of those feelings that she had felt from him during their time together were real, then they would have something to build on. And if his reasons were something like money or fame or even her title, she somehow felt that she would try to overlook them.

She would have dashed away from Estania early in the morning if not for this meeting. Truth be told, she was also curious about this husband of Eleanora’s. She’d been tempted to look him up on the search engine but then let it go. If, like her father wanted, and they came to be sisters in the future, then this man would be her brother-in-law.

All she knew was that Eleanora had been in love with her husband and the man loved her back crazily. It had been difficult for her father to hold off that man for so many months. She just hoped that he would not create more trouble for her father in the future.

Soon, Eleanora walked in with her father and Evangeline smiled at the two of them. Since this was a secret meeting, there was no need to pretend to be enemies.

With a smile, she stood up and greeted her father first and then Eleanora. She felt a strange stiffness from Eleanora but then chalked it to wariness. After all, she too was wary of Eleanora’s motives, now or in the future.

Alexander smiled at the girls, before nodding," For all the world, today’s meeting is going to be an attempt by me to reconcile the differences between the two of you. We will be touring the labyrinth of mazes for this. And the person in our meeting is also going to be joining us there."

Both Eleanora and Evangeline nodded as they started to head out for the maze. Nora curbed her excitement wanting to reveal the truth only after she had seen Lucien. It would be a surprise for him as well as these two people beside her.

As they circled the maze, passing through the different hedges, both the girls were lost in their thoughts while Alexander tried to keep a steady stream of conversation.

As they reached the middle, both the girls paused. One in anticipation and the other in shock.

Evangeline was sure that she was hallucinating. Why else would Lucien be here talking to the gardener so animatedly? And he looked different. Gone were the jackets and tight jeans. Instead, the man was dressed in an impeccable shirt and pants.

Just then, the two men turned towards them and her eyes met Lucifer’s. It was not a hallucination. Evangeline felt her heart beating fast, ready to jump out of her throat. It was her Lucifer!

She wanted to run to him and hug him. Did he come here for her her?

She was about to run to him happily, when his eyes turned away and a smile unlike she had ever seen before lit his face and he raised his arms...

Evangeline watched as Nora raced towards her Lucifer and jumped into the man’s arms," Lucy!" The man laughed, picked her up in his arms and twirled her around while calling out, "Nora."

Everything after that was broken for Evangeline as she watched the two people. Lucifer was Nora’s husband. The man she wanted to be with, she yearned for was her brother-in-law.

Evangeline felt as if she had swallowed shards of glass. This was the reason he had approached her. She thought back to their first meeting. She’d been meeting Eleanora’s ex at the time. Lucifer... no Mr Frost must have been keeping an eye on the man and followed him there to her.

So, his reason for coming onto her had been... Nora... She wanted to run away from there. She needed to be alone. But her feet felt frozen, as if they were nailed to the ground.

Taking shallow breaths, she tried to think of a way to slip away from there before this lover’s reunion could come to an end and she had to witness anything more hurtful. But instead her father had already started to walk forward, and with her hand in his, he was making her walk with him.

She tried to pull her hand away from her father’s grasp, when he questioned," Eleanora? You recognize Lucien? I thought you’d lost your memory."

Lucien? That was his real name? Evangeline wanted to smack herself. Of course, that man had not even bothered to give her his real name. She’d been the only one living in that dreamland.

Eleanora turned her shining eyes to them and answered," Yes, uncle. That is what I came to tell you in the morning but you did not listen. I remember everything..."

And then Nora hugged Lucien again and said," I think I missed you Lucy!!!"

"I missed you more, since you had no idea who I was."

As she heard the honeyed words from his mouth, the same shameless mouth that he had kissed her with, Evangeline felt red hot fury course through her! That dam*ed bast***! How dare he! So what if his motive had been to get close to his wife. How dare he lead her on!

Even if whatever she had felt from him had been her delusion, his kisses and the way he had wanted her was not her imagination! The man may have not gone all the way but he had cheated on her sister and used her! She was going to expose him...

"You missed her?" Her sarcastic comment had everyone turn to look at her and she walked towards him with narrowed eyes...

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