Reclaiming Her Heart

Chapter 1319 Feeling a Bit More Relaxed?

The office remained silent. No one answered.

Half the curtain was obscured by a cabinet, hiding the window seat.

Victor pulled out his phone and dialed Alex. No ringtone sounded in the quiet office.

He hung up and closed the door again.

After the door shut a second time, Alex lifted the edge of the curtain. The heavy drapes were designed to keep Victor's rest area pitch black regardless of how bright it was outside.

As he peered out, his eyes met those of the man still standing in the office. Victor hadn't left after closing the door-he'd remained inside.

Alex, who had assumed Victor had departed when he heard the door close, managed a smile and rubbed his eyes.

"When did you come back?" he asked with a fake yawn, climbing down from the window seat, pretending he'd just woken up.

Victor studied him for several seconds. "You slept here all night?"

"Yeah. Paul's death hit me hard. Accidentally fell asleep on the window seat-my back's killing me now." He forced another yawn, squeezing out tears at the corners of his eyes.

are you heading out now?" He checked his phone screen and raised his eyebrows. "You

have

"Twenty-some years."

as Victor leaned against the

still fidget with

The silence became deafening.

twenty years, he'd put his phone in his pocket-his hands were empty! Cold sweat broke out

out a soft laugh. "Just

grew even more bizarre, as if all the oxygen had been sucked

room.

your head? I was calling my family to investigate whether someone from the Adams clan might be involved. Remember how Paul's cousin Kai nearly got into a fight with him at that family dinner? Threatened to make him pay? I'm wondering if someone in the Adams family might be stirring up trouble, trying to

up hearing you arrange surveillance on the Adams family, and my brain filled in the rest-a longtime friend turns out

into a smile. "Feeling better

Victor had done-concerned he was too tense over Paul's death,

Kai. The Adams family has always been chaotic, and others

the Adams family was already complicated, and Paul's friendship with Raymond was no secret. Someone striking now could easily connect Paul's death with Raymond's departure, allowing

you can't sleep, take some

every twist and turn. The next chapter awaits,

found several bottles labeled "melatonin" where Victor