She's Too Busy Winning to Watch Him Cry novel Chapter 443

Seeing Lyra flip the script and refuse to take responsibility yet again, Rowan dialed Caleb's number directly.

"Did Lyra hit her head when she was a kid?"

Caleb hadn't expected Rowan to declare he was courting his sister only to turn around and insult her.

"Lyra was brutally rejected by someone in the past," Caleb explained defensively. "And that man ended up falling for her best friend. She probably has deep-seated trauma from it."

Rowan's brow furrowed.

Caleb was right. All of this chaos was ultimately a mess of his own making.

"My mistake," Rowan replied curtly.

He hung up the phone.

Perhaps Lyra had shed tears of genuine distress while they were intimate, because that night, Rowan had a nightmare about a yacht exploding.

Waylon Grayson was on the yacht with him.

In the dream, Rowan had dragged Waylon down to hell with him when he died.

As for why his subconscious had decided a murder-suicide involving Waylon was the way to go, Rowan spent part of the next day analyzing it. In the dream, it seemed Waylon had fallen for someone he shouldn't have, which earned him a death sentence.

But Rowan didn't think he was the type to care who Waylon Grayson dated, unless, of course, it had something to do with Lyra...

Rowan treated the dream like an absurd movie.

He refused to believe any of it had actually happened.

Just then, his secretary, Zara Somerset, pushed the door open, carrying a cup of coffee.

Ever since she agreed to act as the CEO's fake girlfriend, she had meticulously brewed his coffee and brought it to his desk right on schedule every single day.

Recently, her grandmother had been hospitalized with a sudden, severe illness. Her family couldn't scrape together the medical fees, and when she had hit rock bottom, Rowan stepped in. He didn't offer a patronizing handout or a suffocating loan. Instead, under the guise of paying her to play his temporary girlfriend, he simply handed her a million dollars, quietly solving her crisis and saving her grandmother's life.

He could have easily just lent her the money, but he chose a method that subtly protected what little pride she had left.

Zara carved that kindness deep into her heart.

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