Rejected No More: I Am Way Out Of Your League, Darling!

Chapter 161

Chapter 161:

“Daniela?” she whispered.

“How long has this been happening?” Daniela asked, without looking away from Cedric.

Lillian hesitated, aware there was no way to hide it anymore.

Before Lillian could speak, Daniela stated, “So Cedric is the one backing Tyler’s company.”

It wasn’t a question, but a statement.

Lillian shifted uneasily and rubbed her hands together.

“Yeah,” she confessed.

her side, clenched

could turn and see her, she turned and slid back

told me earlier,” she said, gripping

us to tell you. He didn’t

wrong,” Daniela replied

burden.” She really hated being in a position where she owed someone a favor—especially when she wasn’t sure if

unsettled her. Daniela had been burned before, her heart broken by

disappointment could wound a person, how it could tear them apart. She didn’t want Cedric to go through that same kind of

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at the office, Daniela asked Ryan for the

didn’t take her long—just over an hour—and she had gone through the numbers,

was still in the same dirt-streaked clothes from earlier, panting as

to find Cedric standing in the doorway, his shadow stretching long across the

down the sleeves he’d pushed up earlier, clearly trying to gather

“I can explain.”

the scattered papers on her desk,