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Chapter 52 Wasn’t it too Early?
When Marion returned to the Cartier residence, she decided to send Lucas a WhatsApp message to let
him know that she had arrived home safely. It did not matter to her that they were not truly a married
couple in the conservative sense.
Marion opened WhatsApp, glanced at her contacts, and fell into silence. She had forgotten that she did
not have Lucas’s contact!
They truly were not a real couple!
Wait, no, she did have Lucas’s contact! Remembering that, Marion was thankful that she had been
slow to react. If she had immediately called Lucas at the office to inform him of her safe return and then
casually asked for his WhatsApp contact, their ‘marriage‘ may have come to an end.
Lucas’s WhatsApp was easy to find. His display picture had a black background against the infinity
symbol. His WhatsApp name was ‘L‘. They had exchanged messages before, but that was a few days
ago, and the conversation had long sunk to the bottom of the messages window.
Marion brought Lucas back into focus. [Mr. Craig, I’ve safely arrived at home.]
Meanwhile, at the office, the speaker giving a presentation in the meeting room noticed that Lucas
suddenly took out his phone. His chest tightened, and he stumbled in his presentation.
Lucas glanced at the phone, his thick, black eyelashes obscured his emotions. Lucas disliked people
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtchecking their phones during meetings yet every time he did, it signaled his impatience to others and
was often seen as a precursor to his anger. The atmosphere in the entire meeting room instantly
became stifling.
His long fingers tapped on the phone screen in an intricate pattern. Five seconds later, Lucas lifted his
head again.
Suddenly Lucas realized that the presentation had come to a halt. He furrowed his brow but was calm
as he asked “Are you waiting for me to say something?”
As he spoke, the speaker hurriedly resumed the presentation.
Upon reaching the piano room, Marion received Lucas’s message: [Staying for a few days?]
[It seems like the media has been paying quite a bit of attention to us lately] he added, perhaps in an
attempt to sugarcoat his question.
Marion breathed a small sigh of relief. Upon seeing his reply, she had a fleeting sense of a wife
returning to her parent’s home with her husband’s disapproval.
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Chapter 52 Wasn’t it too Early?
Fortunately, it was just an illusion.
After playing a few notes on the piano and contemplating her exchange with Lucas, Marion picked up
her phone and replied: [Is Saturday okay?]
[In the morning or afternoon?]
[Afternoon?]
There was a long pause on the other end of the chat. Marion thought for a moment and changed her
mind. [Let’s make it morning.]
[I’ll come to pick you up at nine!] Wait, was that not too early in the morning?
[Alright.]
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Afraid of disrupting his work, Marion did not dare to continue the conversation. [ You go on with work. If
you need anything, feel free to call me.]
However, Lucas seemed to be in no hurry to end their conversation. [How’s your leg recovering?]
[It’s going well. The cast is off, and the doctor says I can walk with crutches now.]
As Marion thought about what she must look like with crutches, her ears turned red.
Before Lucas could reply, Marion quickly ended the conversation. [I’m going to practice the piano now.]
[Goodbye.]
Marion breathed a sigh of relief. Was Lucas that free?
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmCertainly not. Throughout the second half of the meeting, Lucas’s attention was almost entirely on his
phone. Initially, the people in the meeting room looked surprised, but after watching him repeatedly pick
up his phone, everyone got used to it. The speaker even felt relieved. He thought that with Mr. Craig
glued to his phone, he might not be criticized too harshly that day. Of course, he had underestimated
Lucas.
As soon as the presentation ended, Lucas immediately dismissed the proposal. “I brought you back to
tell me how to generate profits, not for you to paint me rosy pictures! Can you guess what I want to do
now?”
Upon hearing this, the person in charge turned pale and stammered, “Mr. Craig, please give us another
chance, one week-”
Lucas looked at him coldly, and the speaker quickly amended his timeline. “Three days. We will
Come up with a satisfactory solution in three days!”
Chapter 52 Wasn’t it too Early?
“Three days it is.”
Then Lucas concluded the meeting.
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