Desires Die Hard

Chapter 25

Sydney caught the flicker of interest in Evan’s eyes. She decided to seize the opportunity and do her worst. “I’m terribly sorry, Mr. Welton. Anya’s always shown a great deal of avarice when she was a kid. She knew that the Weltons were a rich and powerful family with a vast business empire and political connections. Even though she was engaged to another man, she couldn’t stop herself from setting you up so that she could try to marry into the Welton family and become the lady of the house. We chased her out of our family after what she had done. It’s been a year. We thought that Anya would change for the better.”

“We didn’t expect her to come back. A few days ago, she turned up at our doorstep, pleading for our help. She told us that she wanted to marry into the Welton family and wanted a life of luxury and wealth. She begged us to help her get into Welton Group Tower somehow. We didn’t want to help her but she threatened to kill herself if we didn’t. We were left with no choice but to give her what she wanted.”

“For that, I owe you an apology, Mr. Welton.” Sydney bowed her head.

A dark expression rippled across Evan’s face when he heard what Sydney had said. Then, he remembered what Anya had told him. She had insisted that she was no longer interested in him.

Evan wasn’t sure if he could trust the woman before him. “I heard you,” he replied coolly.

“I won’t take up any more of your time then, Mr. Welton,” Sydney said. She decided not to push her luck. Anyway, she had gotten herself a job in Welton Group.

She would have plenty of chances to run into Evan again. This won’t be the last time she was seeing him. The young woman left without a fuss.

Dan’s curiosity was piqued. He couldn’t stop himself from asking as soon as Sydney was gone. “What was she talking about?”

A setup? What setup? Had Sydney’s sister somehow managed to lure his good friend, the almighty Mr. Evan Welton, into some kind of trap? Dan couldn’t help the curiosity and fascination bubbling inside him.

on the other hand, wasn’t interested in talking about how he

nothing,” he said casually. “Let’s have another

However, it appeared that Evan wasn’t going to tell him anything. Well,

MacMillan family.

warm spill of sunlight through the clouds. Dawn broke and cast its

She struggled to open her heavy eyelids and found herself staring drowsily at

her. They realized that she

hands reached out for Anya and patted her cheeks. They were followed by two voices. and the

eyes at her precious angels, then reached out and wrapped her arms around them.

Eudora were still learning how to talk. But somehow, they understood what their

started talking immediately, blabbering in an almost unintelligible manner. “Mama…Elle…

himself. How he wished

Mom, give me a hug!” Yet all

Eudora joined him the next moment too.

of bed, lifted her two angels into her arms and carried them out of

hurried towards Anya when she saw the latter with both kids in her arms. “Anya,