Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband? novel Chapter 262

“I’ve got something to take care of. Excuse me for a moment.”

With that, Nathaniel hurried after someone and disappeared from the room.

……

Giselle looked after him, puzzled. She followed Nathaniel’s departure with her eyes but saw nothing unusual, so she didn’t dwell on it. Instead, her attention drifted to Leonard, who had stuck by her side all evening. Worry crept onto her face.

“That deal with the Forest Team fell through before we even had a chance to discuss it. I thought maybe Lysander and Mr. Whitmore had some kind of misunderstanding. I was hoping to help smooth things over at tonight’s party, but I didn’t expect Mr. Whitmore to be so… difficult.”

Her voice was tinged with concern.

“Falcon Technologies and The FM Group are in the same industry. The two companies are bound to cross paths again and again, so if there’s any bad blood, it’s best to clear the air sooner rather than later.”

She glanced sideways at Leonard, still silent as ever, and gently probed, “You’ve been with Lysander for years. You must know what happened between them, right…?”

She didn’t get to finish before Leonard cut in coldly, “You’ll have to ask Mr. Montgomery, Ms. Harvey.”

He shut her down with a single sentence.

Lysander never spoke about what happened seven years ago, and asking him always put him in a foul mood. Giselle had no choice but to investigate on her own.

She’d figured Leonard, loyal to Lysander since high school, would know something. She’d made several attempts to sound him out during hospital visits, but he was a vault—impossible to pry open.

She’d have to think of another way.

As she was lost in thought, a crowd gathered around her. Some were trying to cozy up, others were fishing for details about her relationship with Chairman Montgomery, and a few were bluntly asking why he hadn’t shown up tonight.

Lysander’s hospitalization had been kept tightly under wraps, so no one was aware. With his recent absence from public events and Leonard—famously tight-lipped—handling all business matters, everyone now turned to Giselle, Lysander’s girlfriend, for answers.

With Lysander’s personal assistant at her side and her shareholding in the company, no one doubted their relationship.