Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean) novel Chapter 497

Matthias waited all night long. Under the influence of alcohol, he pulled through and waited stubbornly in place. Meanwhile, Heather was finding it hard to fall asleep in her room; she didn’t take his words seriously and gradually dozed off as she blamed him for his absurd attitude in the middle of the night.

The next day, Heather departed to work early in the morning with dark circles under her eyes—last night was simply the unluckiest night of her life. When she received some strange photos out of the blue, she contacted Myra immediately; only a fool wouldn’t understand what the photos actually meant.

Because of that, Heather and Myra were on video call for a long time. Myra and Tony kept their guard up at once and decided to take note of the matter. After all, it was terrifying to be followed around by a stalker while they were on a trip overseas.

After worrying about it for some time, Heather finally fell asleep out of drowsiness, only to be woken up by Matthias’ phone call. After that, she spent a long time before dozing off again, but she woke up naturally at the crack of dawn. In the end, she couldn’t get a good night’s sleep at all.

Heather hadn’t slept well ever since she’d returned from overseas. That morning, the Langstons avoided talking to Heather as soon as they noticed that she was in a bad mood.

She left the house without even having breakfast. In the meantime, Matthias was still stubbornly waiting for her in his car. When the front gates opened up, Heather immediately noticed his car outside—how could she forget the very car that she’d crashed into?

Heather fished out her phone. Its screen was horribly cracked, but it was still functional. Then, she tapped into Messenger and saw that Matthias had sent her loads of text messages after his first one. She skimmed through each and every one of them; his unusual behavior made her forget that she was supposed to check up on Myra first thing in the morning.

A round of hesitation later, Heather got down from her car and went up to Matthias’ vehicle before knocking on his window.

Matthias wasn’t sleeping deeply, so he woke up in an instant. Heather was staring at him while she bore a weary and lifeless complexion as soon as he wound down the window—the dark circles under her eyes were distinctly visible.

The woman who was usually elegant with her presentation seemed a little different today. Matthias didn’t know what she had gone through to end up looking like that; in fact, he was oblivious that he was none other than the culprit of her sleepless night.

“What on earth do you want from me? You’re even all the way here in the Langston Residence.” Heather didn’t know what to do to make Matthias leave her alone. She was exhausted and no longer had the strength to keep on competing with him.

“I have something important to tell you.” Matthias remembered the reason he came. Even though it was the next day, at least he was finally able to see her.

At the very least, Heather had taken the initiative to come up to his car and knock on his window—this could be a good sign. However, he was unaware that the reason behind her gesture was only because she didn’t want the Langstons to notice that Matthias’s car was parked outside their home. She only came over to shoo him away.

“I’m busy today.” Heather rejected him instantly. Just then, she thought of Myra—she had set an alarm as a reminder to call her friend. If it weren’t for Matthias’ interruption last night, she wouldn’t have gotten confused over the matter.

“I’ll pick you up at the Langston Group tonight,” Matthias replied nonchalantly and completely disregarded her rejection.

“I’m busy tonight, and I’ll be busy tomorrow. Actually, I’ll be busy for the entire week,” Heather snapped. She didn’t want to argue with Matthias a second longer, for it’d be bad if Blake spotted them together.

“I just need a bit of your time,” Matthias responded to her patiently, and he was trying his best to keep his temper under control.

“Please leave my home; I’m going to work.” Heather didn’t want to continue this conversation. After all, she had more important things to do.

With those words, she left without another look at him. Her brain was currently bombarded with too many things, and she didn’t have the mental capacity to ponder on Matthias’ sudden change in attitude.

Meanwhile, Matthias started driving as he followed behind Heather’s car. Right now, Matthias wasn’t feeling any better himself—he hadn’t slept all night, so he was extremely tired as well.

Heather noticed his car from her rearview mirror, and she knew all too well that he was a stubborn man who wouldn’t give up before reaching his goal.

From the looks of it, the only way to escape was to hide. She stepped on the gas in effort to lose him as she video called Myra with her faulty phone.

It was currently at night where Myra was, and she was in the hotel with Tony. They’d already started taking precautions immediately after hearing about their stalker from Heather earlier in the day.

Fortunately, Tony had always been a careful person; he had hired a bodyguard to protect them from the dark even though they were on a honeymoon trip. It was possible that the stalker was aware of this bodyguard, so he hadn’t made his move just yet. Tony speculated that the observer knew quite a lot about their current situation, but they had no clue as to who he was—they couldn’t even make out his appearance.

Tony had contacted their bodyguard that day; he told him to pay attention to their surroundings and find out if they were actually being followed.

That afternoon, Myra and Tony intentionally took a walk on an open street that was relatively easier to expose the stalker’s identity—it was the bodyguard’s idea, for it would help him in his mission to capture a photo of the stalker’s face.

Tony was still upset at their bodyguard for not being able to spot the stalker beforehand; how could he overlook something so potentially dangerous that was lurking right around the corner? Not only that, he only knew about it after it was pointed out by some stranger back home.

At the thought of that, Tony wanted to fire the expensive bodyguard right away, but considering the fact that they were in dire need of protection, he swallowed his anger. Hence, he could only look forward to how the guy would perform from now on.

Luckily, Tony wasn’t disappointed this time—the bodyguard successfully completed the mission and took a photo of the stalker’s appearance. Later on, Myra and Tony studied the photos sent over by the bodyguard. The two of them racked their brains to identify the mysterious follower, but they didn’t make any breakthroughs.