Once a Doormat Now Untouchable (Caleb and Sydney) novel Chapter 685

Chapter 685

A man who should not have been in Jouleston stood in her office.

Leon wore a dark blue striped shirt tucked into matching trousers, with a wool coat draped over the crook of his arm. He looked polished and professional, as he always did.

“I came to Jouleston for an Al forum,” he said. “It just ended. I was passing by and thought I’d try my luck. See if I could catch you.”

Diana was always busy with official work and often out of the office. If he had arrived 20 minutes later, she would already have left for a district government meeting.

Theodore’s voice over the phone had been loud enough. Leon must have overheard at least part of it. That was likely why he looked at her the way he did now, uneasy and concerned.

Before she could answer, he asked, “Are you alright? Is there anything I can help with?”

Theodore’s tone had been harsh. Leon feared she might not take it well. If it had been someone like Helen being scolded by family, her eyes would already be red.

Diana looked calm, but he worried she was only holding herself together.

They had not finalized the divorce. On paper, he was still her husband, still someone she could lean on in

a vulnerable moment.

“I’m fine,” Diana said. She did not ask how much he had heard, and she showed no embarrassment. Just a family matter. I can handle it.”

With a few simple words, she pushed him to a great distance. Clearly, he was no longer part of what she

called home.

When they first married, Diana had wanted to trust him. She had thought Leon might be the person she could rely on when she needed to breathe.

Later, she learned where he stood, behind another woman. And when she turned around, no one stood

behind her at all.

Leon fell silent for a moment. “That’s true. You’ve always been the strongest one.”

Diana probably never noticed.

They had attended the same high school and the same university. Her grades had always ranked at the very top. Every exam, every list, she held first place.

She was brilliant and independent. She reached heights with ease that others exhausted themselves trying to touch. People like him, for example. He had always been second, just beneath her name.

Diana had no interest in deciding whether he meant that as praise or sarcasm. She glanced at her watch. “I have somewhere to be. I need to go. Make yourself comfortable.”

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Family matters and official duties left her no time to stop. She did not even have space to deal with the

divorce.

Even if Leon had time, she could not spare a trip back to Brimcrest at a moment like this.

She picked up her coat in one hand and her bag in the other. Her posture remained composed and efficient, as if the sky could collapse and she still would not bend.

Leon had not moved past Theodore’s accusations. She, the one they targeted, had already put them behind her.

At the office door, she paused to give her assistant a brief instruction, then hurried away.

Leon caught his name in what she said. He sighed, stepped out, and closed the office door behind him. Then he asked casually, “What did Diana just say?”

The assistant had been assigned to Diana by the office and handled routine work. She was not Nina, Diana’s private assistant.

She had met Leon a few times and knew he was Diana’s husband. She had been the one to let him in.

“Ms. Hutton told me that from now on, I’m not allowed to let you into her office on my own,” the assistant said plainly. “Otherwise, I won’t need to keep this job.”

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