Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean) novel Chapter 616

After patting Everly on the shoulder, Heather said impassively, “Just be rest assured. I believe that you’re totally capable of dealing with it using your capabilities.” She had stressed this many times; what Everly lacked the most at present was self-confidence, so Heather had to find a way to build it up.

However, Heather’s lips curled into a sneer when she walked out of the woman’s room. She spotted something she shouldn’t have seen inside, and it truly surprised her because she hadn’t expected Everly to be involved with that man. This gave her quite a headache, but she had to let Everly join the Langston Group smoothly for now. Right now, Heather had to take three aspects into consideration; she had never expected Everly to become a key figure, but she didn’t think this was a bad thing. Now that things had come to such an extent, she could only take one step at a time and act according to the circumstances.

It was never by chance that Everly had caught Heather’s attention, for the latter had learned some information about Everly while she was at Leon’s villa. There was a trace of worry in Heather’s eyes as she recalled how Leon talked about this in vivid detail; she wasn’t sure whether what Leon said was entirely true, but she was indeed shocked by what Leon had told her. The Everly he described was so different from the Everly in the Langston Family that she even doubted the veracity of his words.

Things were getting increasingly out of control, but Heather liked such a feeling. The loss of control made everything more interesting, and this completely aroused her innermost courage and uprightness.

The Langstons were the least united. On the outside, they seemed to be keeping on good terms with each other. With all members of the family living under the same roof, the Langston Family was unmatched by other families in Bradfort City. Unfortunately, the Langstons secretly acted of their own free will, disappointing Heather and leaving Robert heartbroken. If the Langstons continued to rest on their laurels, they would definitely fall apart.

Heather used to be eager for such a day to arrive, but she changed her mind now that she truly saw herself as a member of the Langston Family. The Langston Family mustn’t perish, so she had to find a way to help the family pull through this crisis. However, she could only take one step at a time for now. Furthermore, she didn’t know how she should deal with this, and she often found herself at a loss for what to do with the Langston Family’s current situation.

She returned to her room while wondering if Robert had grown suspicious today. For now, she was only suspicious of Everly, so she didn’t want to let Robert know this. Robert’s perspicacity was well beyond an ordinary person’s imagination, and Heather feared that he would sense her suspicions as she didn’t want him and Everly to become estranged from each other.

Speaking of it, Heather hadn’t figured out what was the matter with Everly, nor did she know what was the latter’s objectives. As such, she couldn’t let anyone else grow suspicious of Everly as well since that would be unfair to the woman. After all, wouldn’t she be blaming the woman unjustly if Everly had really done nothing to be ashamed of? Still, Heather learned some information via her interactions with the woman. As expected, Everly wasn’t who she appeared to be, and it seemed that the entire Langston Family had overlooked her capabilities.

That afternoon, Heather made arrangements to meet Matthias at a cafe since she hadn’t enjoyed a good cup of coffee outside for a long time. Heather liked to drink coffee, and she would brew herself some of it at home since it was a rather interesting pastime.

The weather was nice today, but the wind blew so harshly that it made one feel somewhat chilly. Wind and rain were most feared during the winter, but it was pretty fortunate and nice since it wasn’t raining that day.

Heather’s arrival drew many gazes when she pushed the door open, and Matthias looked at her with a faint smile. The instant their eyes met, everything else seemed to pale into insignificance, for they only had eyes for each other. Heather walked step by step toward Matthias, but he didn’t walk up to her. Instead, he waited for her to walk toward him. His heart was filled with surging emotions when he saw her, but the surging emotions within him were concealed beneath his imperturbable exterior.

Heather had come ahead of time, but she didn’t expect Matthias to arrive earlier than she did. “Have you been here for a long time?”

“Nope. I’ve only been here since lunch,” Matthias replied nonchalantly as if several hours of waiting wasn’t something worth mentioning.

“Why did you come so early?” Heather looked at him with a helpless expression. Matthias was the Locke Group’s chief executive officer. Yet, not only did he skip work in secret to go on a date, he even came so much ahead of time. This made Heather feel rather embarrassed.

“I couldn’t stay in my office when the thought of being able to see you soon came into my mind.” Matthias was still impulsive whenever Heather was concerned—he was like a reckless young boy blinded by love.

“In that case, you could’ve just told me that you arrived ahead of time so that you wouldn’t have to wait for so long.” Heather looked at it from Matthias’ perspective. In her opinion, waiting here alone wasn’t probably the best experience.

“The process of waiting was also wonderful because I was waiting for you.” Matthias kept showering Heather with sweet talk as if his lips were coated with honey.

Upon hearing Matthias’ words, Heather felt rather embarrassed. “Let’s order some coffee, shall we?” She picked up the menu. This cafe had neither booths nor private rooms, though its lobby was unusually spacious. Despite the lack of private rooms, Heather liked the taste of the coffee here. Since the coffee here tasted good, she could forgive the other lacking aspects of this cafe.

She ordered her usual drink; since Matthias already had a cup of coffee earlier, he didn’t want to order another one right now. He merely looked at Heather without doing anything else since he was pleased to see her.

“Has anything been going on in Bradfort City lately?” Heather was habituated to talking about work, so she naturally blurted out the question as if by instinct.

However, Matthias evaded her question and took the opportunity to bring the conversation around to himself instead. “Why don’t you ask me if there’s been anything going on in my mind lately?”

“This question is too personal,” replied Heather in a formal tone. Indeed, she never asked such personal questions.

“Don’t you want to know something personal about me?” Matthias asked with feigned disappointment. There were still misunderstandings between him and Heather, so he wanted to eliminate the estrangement between them as soon as possible.

“I do. Well, kind of,” Heather replied reluctantly.

Matthias looked at Heather and stopped talking about this subject as he roughly understood what her reply meant. Heather took a sip of coffee, and it felt warm in her stomach; the wind outside had made her feel somewhat chilly just now.