No longer a pushover (Noelle and Cedric) novel Chapter 133

Lucas responded without hesitation. After all, everyone in the Liddell family listened to Donovan; no one dared to go against him—not even Noelle.

He remembered how terrified Noelle was of Donovan. She would never have the nerve to defy him.

Frank was furious. "Do you even hear yourself? At this rate, you're just going to push Noelle further away!"

Lucas didn't seem to understand—Noelle wasn't being difficult just because she was upset.

"But what else can I do? We still don't have a proper gunner. If she doesn't show up tomorrow, we're definitely going to lose!"

Lucas couldn't stand the idea of losing the game. It only hit him now: he had already lost Noelle's support.

"Even so, you can't force Noelle to join the match! Is the match more important than your sister? What you're doing will only make you lose her. Think about it, will you?"

Reluctantly, Lucas lowered his head and muttered, "Can't Noelle just cut me some slack for once? She knows how much this match means to me, yet she keeps using it against me."

"It doesn't matter if you lose the match, Lucas. But if you pressure her by dragging Donovan into this, you'll lose her for good. Is the match really more important than your sister?"

With that, Frank closed his eyes, refusing to say more. Every time he talked to Lucas, it just made him angrier. Now, he finally understood what Noelle had been dealing with all this time.

Lucas froze, and his thoughts were in chaos. After a moment, he left the ward and found James waiting outside.

"Frank knows where Noelle is staying, doesn't he?" he asked.

"Why do you want to know, Mr. Liddell?" James replied cautiously.

"To make things right." Lucas finally admitted to himself that Noelle was no longer the sister he used to know. That was the truth he had been avoiding.

Her thoughts drifted to the woman Cedric had been in contact with. Was he talking to her now?

The idea made her mood sink. She took a sip of her lemonade to steady herself when another notification lit up her phone.

Opening the app, she saw Lucas's follow-up message: "I'll wait here until you come down. If the paparazzi spot me, your address won't stay private."

Noelle felt annoyed. She knew Lucas frequently appeared in entertainment headlines and was often followed by paparazzi.

However, she didn't want her peaceful life disrupted. After thinking it over, she decided to go downstairs.

"Where are you going?"

As Noelle was changing her shoes at the entrance, Cedric's voice came from behind her. She looked up to see him stepping back from the balcony, his tall figure filling the space.