After the CEO Divorced Me, He Wants Me Back by Riverflow

They both lived in the same building, so it was inevitable they would run into each other.

Inside the elevator, Aveline pressed the floor button and moved to stand in the corner. Lucas, tall and imposing, filled the space with a sense of pressure. His striking, sharp features showed little emotion as he watched her through the mirrored walls. "Want to come over to my place for dinner?" he asked.

"No," Aveline replied.

She wasn't particularly hungry and hadn't planned on having dinner.

"Are you sure?" Lucas persisted. "Why not try my cooking and give me some pointers? That way, if we part ways in the future, I won't starve myself."

Aveline was speechless for a moment. She glanced up at him and said, "Even if you can't cook, you wouldn't starve."

With his skyrocketing net worth and status as the youngest Chairman in Cloudflare City, there was hardly anything he couldn't get. If he wanted something to eat, all he'd need to do was put out the word, and people would likely line up to bring it to him. Lucas turned to face her fully, his eyes fixed on her. "But I wouldn't eat well, stay warm, or feel at ease."

Aveline's breath caught in her throat for a moment, and she looked away. Just then, the elevator doors opened. She glanced at the floor indicator and said, "This is your stop."

His apartment was on the floor below hers.

Lucas stepped closer, narrowing the distance between them. "Aveline, are you sure you won't reconsider?"

"No," she replied, her tone as cold as ice.

conceded with a sigh

closed slowly, shutting off their

her gaze, feeling the walls around her heart begin to waver, sparking a faint sense of crisis within her. She didn't want to go through the same

planned to

her fingerprint against the scanner, and the door opened, but there was no

at the screen-it

"Hello?"

out," Selena announced cheerfully. Aveline frowned,

I can't just keep freeloading,

you didn't have to move

I started dating someone. Living with you would make you a third wheel, wouldn't

already found a job. Come out and have dinner with me; it's

against the

come on, let's

moment, Aveline asked,

a restaurant etty

with

out