When Love Finds Its Way Back (Cassienne and Dreston) novel Chapter 334

Chapter Three Hundred And Thirty-Four: A Room Full Of People

For one sharp second, everything else disappeared. Ray looked at her from across the ballroom, calm and unreadable. Daisy wished she could read him the way she used to. Once, she had known his moods from the smallest changes in his expression. Now he looked distant. Controlled. Like the man who had sat across from her and told her she had left him no choice.

Her smile weakened.

Ray looked away first. The small action hurt more than it should have.

Kael followed her gaze briefly and frowned. “Ray Simpson?”

Daisy immediately looked at him. “What?”

“You were staring at Ray Simpson.”

“I was not.”

“You were.”

“I was looking at the chandelier behind him.”

Kael glanced upward. “There is no chandelier behind him.”

Daisy narrowed her eyes. “You are not supposed to fact-check me.”

Kael studied her for a moment, then his expression softened slightly. “Is this about him?”

Daisy looked away. That was answer enough.

Kael did not push. He simply offered his arm again. “Come on. If you stay here staring, people will notice.” Daisy accepted his arm quietly, grateful that he understood without demanding a confession.

Meanwhile, Jessica Tremont was in her element.

She moved through the ballroom with several members of her E-sports team, laughing, greeting other players, waving at sponsors, and making exaggerated faces whenever someone tried to talk business too seriously. Unlike most people there, Jessica genuinely enjoyed herself. She loved the noise. The lights. The attention. The thrill of being surrounded by people who understood her world.

One of her teammates leaned toward her. “You know you’re smiling too much, right?”

Jessica grinned. “I look charming.”

“You look dangerous.”

“Same thing.”

The teammate laughed, but Jessica was already waving at another familiar face across the room.

That was when she saw someone.

Kael Noah.

At first, Jessica only noticed him because he was walking beside Daisy. Then her eyes settled fully on his face, and something inside her shifted.

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The smile on her lips slowly faded. For a moment, the ballroom noise seemed to dull around her.

She knew him. Of course not from business.

Not from business or social media, or the usual elite circles.

But from somewhere older. A memory moved through her mind before she could stop it.

Rain was falling on a narrow road close to her college. She remembered seeing a man almost unconscious on the. road side with too much blood on his shirt.

She remembered her own hands trembled as she pressed hard against a wound and shouted for help.

She remembered his face half-conscious beneath the streetlights.

She had never forgotten that night. She had only pushed it aside because life moved on.

But now, looking across the ballroom, Jessica suddenly felt her heartbeat change.

It was him.

Maybe older now. Stronger. Sharper. Dressed like a man who belonged in rooms full of power.

But it was him.

Kael, on the other hand, did not recognize her. At least not fully.

He had been listening to Daisy complain under her breath about Ray when his gaze suddenly drifted across the room and landed on Jessica.

He stopped walking. In fact Daisy nearly bumped into him.

“What now?”

Kael did not answer.

His attention remained fixed on the woman laughing with the E-sports team near the side of the ballroom. She was beautiful, yes, but that was not what held him still. Something about her face unsettled him. Not recognition exactly. More like a memory trying to open a locked door inside his mind.

Daisy followed his gaze.

Then her brows rose. “Jessica?”

Kael finally looked at her. “You know her?”

Daisy gave him a strange look. “Of course I know her. That’s Jessica Tremont. Dreston’s cousin. She’s a pro player and one of Cassienne’s closest people.”

Jessica Tremont. The name meant nothing to his memory, yet his chest tightened strangely.

Across the room, Jessica was still staring at him, and Daisy noticed that too.

Slowly, her expression changed. “Oh.”

Kael looked at her. “What does that mean?”

“It means…” Daisy smiled faintly. “Nothing.”

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“I know that face.”

“What face?”

“The face you make when you’re about to become annoying.”

Daisy’s smile widened. “I’m always annoying.”

“That is true.”

Before Kael could say anything else, someone approached Daisy from the side, pulling her attention briefly into another greeting. Kael used that moment to look back toward Jessica.

She was no longer laughing. She was watching him. Not boldly, not flirtatiously, but quietly. Like she was trying to decide whether what she remembered was real.

Jessica’s teammate nudged her gently. “Jess?”

Jessica blinked. “What?”

“You disappeared.”

Jessica forced a quick smile. “No, I didn’t.”

“You absolutely did.”

Jessica looked away from Kael, but her mind refused to leave him.

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