Winning Her Heart back (Emelie and William)

Chapter 714 Be a Little Less Heartless Towards Him

William went into a daze. He glanced down at his hand, which was still holding onto her wrist, and hesitated before pulling back. Then, he picked up the bottle and poured himself half a glass.

He held the glass in his hand and warned Emelie again. "I'm not joking with you."

Emelie replied, "Oh, Mr. Middleton, are you worried about me or Beathan?"

William's expression remained unchanged. "What do you think?"

He had the nerves to ask her that kind of question. Despite them being separated by just a small table, his dark eyes seemed veiled and shrouded in shadows.

It was tough for Emelie to discern whether William was merely asking casually or genuinely expecting her to give a specific answer.

"Isn't it obvious?" Emelie smiled. "Losing Charles was already a blow. If Beathan also falls, it must be quite uncomfortable for you, Mr. Middleton. Didn't you have a two-hour video call with Mr. Swanson just the other day?"

William paused. "How do you know that?"

Emelie shrugged. "I have a friend who's quite good with computers. He was bored and decided to challenge your defense system. It's top-secret level, no doubt. It took him over an hour to crack the system, but by the time he got in, your conversation was already over, so I didn't hear much."

William and Bryan immediately contacted each other to discuss a remedy. Emelie had intended to eavesdrop, but with the encrypted

trying with that and instead directly told William about it. Saying it so bluntly was a form of

ask, I would tell you anything. You don't need to go to such lengths.

Middleton. You don't need to go through

do you know that I'm making

this circular conversation and coldly replied, "We're getting

topic. "Then promise me that you

are you saying it as though I'm about to declare war on

to his actions, but I'm unharmed. For the sake of the

sip of her drink, she put down her glass and stood up. "I'm quite tired today. Let's stop here. I'm heading back now. Mr. Middleton, you should go

and William didn't try to keep her. "I'll have Ashton take you

out of the van, William followed her down and watched as she got into

car crept along the road back

hand while scrolling through her phone with the other. She opened her calendar app and looked

New Year approaching next week, she wouldn't be able to return to Mercianna to celebrate

ask why. She wasn't good at lying, so she would have to tell him the