The Billionaire's Unexpected Proposal by Samantha

Chapter 42

Derek rubbed the bridge of his nose unable to believe all that was happening. What bothered him most was his parents and how they must be feeling. He couldn't imagine how he was going to face them.

All his adult life he had done his best to not give them any reason to be disappointed in him, and now just because of one lapse in judgment he had hurt them so much. He couldn't begin to imagine how they were feeling.

"That's not important right now," Evelyn said with a frown as she tried to think.

There were three main questions begging to be answered and they were the Who, how, and why,

Who could have released the news? How did the person get to know about those details? And most importantly why was it released!

She could still remember that they had talked about it in his office. Could that mean that someone had overheard them! She mused. That had to be

"You don't get to tell me what's important..."

"I think someone might have overheard us while we were talking about it." Evelyn voiced out before Derek could finish

Derek scoffed "That's not possible. It doesn't even make sense, so I suggest you save your excuses. If you were going to reveal such private details in the first place. you shouldn't have claimed you were asking for yourself. I trusted you, and you made me regret it. Derek said in a resigned tone

Evelyn felt her heartbreak. She wanted to explain, to make him understand that she would never betray him like that but she could see that no matter what she said, he wasn't going to listen.

As much as she could understand that his feeling was hurt by the article posted about him and his family, she couldn't excuse his reaction

He was behaving the same way her father had behaved six years ago. Like her father, he was not giving her the benefit of the doubt. She needed to get away from here.

What was the point of studying him and working so closely with him if he didn't trust her: She knew he was likely going to call off the interview after something like this happened anyway.

word I say. I really didn't release that news or tell anyone to do it. I never would. And maybe if you trusted me as much as you made me believe you did, you would know that," she said,

remained silent, she nodded. "I think we should leave

Pack your things. We're leaving." he said and

seemed to have, but now, it was obvious

they left the Resort and all through their flight back home, the only thing that was on Evelyn's mind was how Derek's adoption news got

she thought about it, she just couldn't figure out how the news could have gotten out or how it happened to be released by Empowered,

be behind it?

he had pretended to be friendly with her? But even if it

and after Derek told her about it but there was nothing

Sandra had visited before she had the

the flight and when they arrived Derek offered to drop her off but she politely turned down has offer and took a cab instead since she couldn't stand being in his presence any

when she remembered how quiet and uhdrawn Derek had been. She rested her head on the headrest and

2:52 PM d

Chapter 42

had begun to think of him as a friend, and as a

her about his secret if his trust in her was so

needed to prove to him that he had misjudged her. Not because she wanted anything to do with him, but because she really hated the injustice

later, her lips curved in an involuntary smile when Samantha ran to her for

as she threw herself at

her. Even though they had only been

tightly as she pushed every other thought

Evelyn said as she buried her

bring me something, Mommy?" she asked and Evelyn chuckled, the tension easing a bit from her shoulders. Her daughter indeed was

"Do