Chapter 23

Lucas was heading somewhere, and Chloe knew exactly where. Without making a fuss, she opened the car door. Chloe then took a taxi back to Moncada Estate.

When Tara saw Chloe return alone, she had a pretty good idea of what had happened and was about to go fetch Lucas herself. But Chloe stopped her.

"Let it go. His heart's not here. Even if he came back, he'd just be hopeless. Let him be," Chloe said before heading upstairs.

Tara rarely saw Chloe look so defeated. She had no clue what had happened that evening.

Lucas didn't come back for a whole week. During that time, Chloe's routine remained unchanged, except she never once visited Greenpeace Estate. She used to go there two or three times a week.

After Marian's big birthday bash, Chloe hadn't seen Connor either. Had he finally let her be?

but Chloe couldn't shake a nagging

blew up at the dinner table. "Do you even care about this family anymore? From now on, if you spend another night out, you won’t be my son

and am still getting used to the business. I've been working round the clock and sleeping at the office. I

"That's right, I checked with Tyler. Lucas

expression softened, and she changed the subject, "Is work

locking onto Chloe.

Joshua frowned. "What happened?"

Corporation opened bids, inviting hundreds of construction companies to CNR Tower, including several that are a notch below Lucas Construction. Leading Heights was the only company left out. We didn't even receive the tender

once joking with "Trophy Boy" when she saw him leaving the building, asking if he had switched jobs. He had

"Chloe doesn't work at

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