I Chose Me Over My Marriage novel Chapter 37

Lyra smiled softly. "I actually anticipated that answer before I even got here."

Silas looked momentarily stunned. "Then why did you come?"

"Why did I come?"

Lyra offered a helpless shrug.

"Because I didn't have a choice."

She wasn't standing here as Maxwell's wife today.

She was just a regular corporate employee.

And regular employees eventually hit a wall.

"Don't worry. I never had any intention of begging you to take the project back."

Now Silas was thoroughly confused.

"Then what are you doing here?"

Noting his bewilderment, Lyra casually scanned the room. Seeing that the crew was preoccupied and no one was paying them any mind, she turned her attention back to him.

"Silas, can we speak privately?"

Under her steady gaze, Silas gave a curt nod.

It was over an hour later when Lyra finally left the set.

The timing was impeccable.

The moment she walked out, her phone started ringing.

It was Maxwell.

A cold smirk touched her lips before she smoothly answered the call.

"How did it go?"

Lyra let out a long, heavy sigh.

"I did everything I could."

Giving up Aria was an easy compromise.

Maxwell had already predicted that outcome the second he sent Lyra to do his dirty work.

"Fine. Did you ask him what specific clauses need to be revised?"

As a cutthroat businessman, he never walked away empty-handed.

But sacrificing a sliver of profit to secure long-term gains was a trade he was perfectly willing to make.

"I'm not sure of the details. I'm just a regular employee, and one who's about to quit at that. I have no authority to negotiate the specifics with him. Why don't you handle the rest yourself?"

Maxwell instinctively barked back, "Since the task was assigned to you, see it through to the end. Do whatever it takes, but make sure that contract is signed."

He foolishly believed he was taking control of the situation, completely blind to the fact that he was walking straight into the trap Lyra had flawlessly laid out for him.

Hearing his desperate mandate, Lyra finally let her guard down.

"Maxwell, give me my grandmother's necklace back, and I promise I'll finalize this deal for you. Refuse, and I will burn it all down. We can both lose."