Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean) novel Chapter 514

A wonderful fragrance came from the cooking in the kitchen, and Leon sniffed the air curiously. All of a sudden, he lost all of his motivation for work and his stomach rumbled in protest. However, he pulled a face as he stared at his computer screen filled with words and codes; his work was unfinished so for now, he couldn’t enjoy the fragrant meal.

And so, he continued to tap away furiously on his keyboard. He felt like he was a machine doing everything mechanically. In fact, the job of a hacker was glorified by everyone but in all honesty, the work required a huge amount of patience.

Meanwhile, Heather prepared a whole meal in just a short time and she eyed her accomplishments with a pleased look. All in all, she had finished preparing everything earlier than expected. However, Leon hadn’t completed his work yet. As such, she quietly made her way to stand behind him.

She saw herself tip-toeing over to him and found her antics quite comical. As for Leon, his focused look during work was exceptionally attractive to her. Currently, his brows were knitted together and his eyes were dark and brooding, which looked quite captivating. His chiseled nose bridge resembled the groves of a valley and she was quite tempted to reach out and touch it.

All this while, Leon was engrossed in his work so he didn’t realize that Heather was standing behind him. It was only when he stopped what he was doing that he finally noticed her presence.

“Heather, don’t stand behind me without saying a word! It’s rather frightening, alright?” Leon was quite perplexed by her strange behavior of entering the room without even greeting him.

“I didn’t want to interrupt your work.” She came up with an excuse almost instantaneously. In order to shut him up, she immediately continued by saying, “Are you done with work? Dinner’s ready so let’s have the meal.”

Soon after that, Leon gulped his saliva and revealed a hungry expression. He was quite used to behaving without any regard for his image in front of her, and she couldn’t help but smile at his antics.

“I’m not quite done yet. Please don’t forget to keep the dishes warm because it won’t taste as good when it’s cold,” Leo said with a look of concern. This is her first time cooking for me so I want to taste piping hot dishes!

“Sure; I’ll wait for you,” she murmured and revealed a mysterious smile. Meanwhile, Leon faced his computer screen with a miserable look on his face.

The time passed by and Heather didn’t realize how long she had been standing there for, but she started to feel bored. Suddenly, Leon lazily stretched his back while yawning and said, “Everything is finally done!” Truth be told, he felt quite tired just then. My stamina has dropped so much after being away from the gym for quite some time.

As soon as Heather heard that, she immediately rushed forward; right in front of her on the computer screen, she saw a simple Word file. Come to think of it, Leon seems to be a big fan of the Word application. That’s quite rare in the hacker world.

She looked at the information and frowned—it was as if she had gone back to the past. There was indeed a close link between the Langstons and the Moriartys back then. It also looked like the severance of ties between them, and the Harts back then were not so simple after all. It was quite likely related to the Moriartys.

Leon had a worried expression on his face upon seeing Heather frowning so hard. It looked like they had uncovered a dark past and the information on Caleb was actually quite alarming. Just then, he stood up from his chair, feeling quite tired from being in a sitting-down position the whole afternoon.

“Relax, Heather. You should relax and breathe a little.” Leon showed concern as he looked at her somewhat serious expression.

“I can’t believe I knew nothing of this!” Heather said this with a resentful expression. Robert had never revealed all this to her and she really couldn’t comprehend his reason for hiding this.

Just then, Leon patted her on the shoulder. To him, this wasn’t a big deal so he didn’t understand why she was so upset. The older generation usually had their own secrets and he already had first-hand experience of that. Moreover, this was much more evident in large families like the Langstons so surely, she must be quite open to all this.

“Claris Langston—that’s my grand-aunt who passed away. Her name is quite similar…” Heather rubbed her tired eyes. She was quite perceptive to this and Claris’ name was something that irked her.

“It’s purely coincidental,” Leo hurriedly replied. He had noticed this too and it seemed quite odd to him.

“No; I don’t think it is a coincidence,” Heather mentioned quite insistently. Right now, she wanted to rush back home to talk things through with Robert. However, she suddenly recalled his face, pale and lacking pallor, and she immediately changed her mind.

“I want to know more about her.” Heather was determined to work out the whole situation, and something in her mind nagged at her to keep probing.

This time, she had a strong hunch that she was supposed to figure out everything that happened in the past. However, Leon’s expression turned immediately as soon as he heard her words. He was quite fearful of her now as he no longer had the energy to run another investigation on a different person in detail.

It suddenly dawned upon Heather and she awkwardly mentioned, “Let’s have dinner first. This isn’t urgent.” She realized that she was jumping ahead of herself without paying regard to Leon’s feelings.

“Heather, I think we should obtain information about the past from the actual party involved,” Leon suggested. “You won’t be able to gain the truth you’re after from a lifeless computer,” He said it while staring at his beloved computer.

She merely flicked a look at him without responding. He’s quite right about this. A computer isn’t going to be able to restore the truth of the past. I need to ask Grandpa about it. Grandaunt died in such suspicious circumstances after all, so it’s quite likely that the Moriartys had something to do with it. Everything seems connected to the Moriartys, so it is very likely that they hold crucial information about the past. Caleb must be quite a dangerous guy.

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During dinner, Leon suddenly brought up an important point and it caused Heather’s heart to skip a beat.

“Heather, what if Caleb insists on entering into an arranged marriage with your family? How do you plan on handling this?” An arranged marriage with the Langstons means he’s after her hand in marriage! I’d rather she marry Matthias than Caleb. I can’t imagine someone as headstrong as her to submit to a vicious politician.

“No way!” Heather rejected this notion insistently. I would never agree to this arranged marriage! Sometimes, there were just some people which you knew things could never work out with.