The Billionaire's Ex-Wife Returns (Lucy and Landon) novel Chapter 9

Chapter 9: Coming Closer...

"Oh, god..." Lucy stared at her best friend with wide eyes. "Tell me he’s not here. Tell me it’s not him who’s outside the door."

As much as Vanessa wanted to say those words, the devil stood outside the door, looking like he brought hell with him.

"Ignore him. He’ll leave when he thinks no one’s inside the door," Vanessa reassured her, but it did little to Lucy, who was visibly trembling from panic.

Why was Landon outside Vanessa’s apartment? How did he even know where her best friend lived? As far as Lucy knew, Landon had never met Vanessa. The only information he should have had about her best friend was what Lucy had told him.

Had he come here for her?

The thought filled Lucy with fear.

After seeing her name in the headlines, Lucy couldn’t trust Landon anymore. She was convinced he was only here to pressure her into going to court for his beloved Yvonne. He would do anything for his first love, after all. Didn’t he also leave her alone to accompany Yvonne to the hospital?

"Vanessa, I don’t want to see him." Lucy softly said, stepping away from the door.

What she feared most was herself. She couldn’t trust her heart not to behave sensibly with him being so close.

Vanessa cupped her cheeks and nodded reassuringly. "You won’t. I promise you."

’Thud!’

The doorbell rang again, followed by heavy knocking.

Lucy and Vanessa jumped, startled, and turned toward the door.

The small screen on the wall displayed not just Landon, but also his secretary, Alaric, and a stout middle-aged man beside him.

"Damn it!" Vanessa cursed under her breath, not believing what she was seeing right now.

Lucy shot her a questioning look.

"That’s the building owner." Vanessa hissed, glaring at the door, more precisely at the middle-aged man behind it.

Lucy flinched, recalling the incident Vanessa had faced just four months ago. A stalker—a perverse creep who had stolen her clothes multiple times and belongings from the locker—tormented Vanessa. Although she reported the situation to the authorities, the police merely filed a report and did nothing to stop the stalker.

But then, Vanessa found out who the stalker was.

It turned out to be the apartment building owner.

Vanessa went back to the police to report him. But the law didn’t side with her. They even dared to hint that she had wagged her tail at him.

In the end, she could only quietly settle things with him.

"Are you sure this is the right apartment?" Landon asked, locking his icy gaze onto the middle-aged man. "If you led me to the wrong place, you better pray you’ll get out of my sight faster than I can catch you."

The middle-aged man involuntarily stepped back, a chill running down his spine after just a single word from Landon.

He didn’t know why, but he felt as if his neck was now on the line.

Sobering up, he readjusted his thick glasses on his nose. "You don’t need to worry. I’ve been here before, and I’ve known Vanessa for a long time."

Landon scrutinized him carefully.

After leaving the mansion, he had tasked Alaric with finding a woman named Vanessa in the city.

It wasn’t an easy feat. There were likely over a hundred women with that name. But Landon was lucky that he remembered the details Lucy had shared about her friend.

In just half an hour, he narrowed down his list and brought him to this apartment.

"But sir, are you sure she’s here?" Alaric questioned.

Landon’s gaze fell to his secretary, who quickly screwed his mouth shut.

"We’ll find out soon."

The truth was, Landon was growing restless. Anxiety clawed at him as he realized everything he knew about Lucy came from things she told him.

Since their marriage, he had never bothered to look into her past or her background. All that mattered to him was how she could fulfill her role as his wife.

But now, that oversight was coming back to haunt him.

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