Winning Her Heart back (Emelie and William)

Chapter 731 Key People

Lyle used the sofa as a support to climb to his feet. To move undetected at night, he was dressed in black from head to toe. Without light, he blended seamlessly into the darkness.

He drawled, "As expected of high society. Even the spaghetti served is in dainty portions. Even after eating two plates, I'm still starving."

Wesley had knocked him down, causing the remaining spaghetti to splash onto Lyle's parka in the process.

Lyle wasn't bothered though. He casually tossed the parka aside and grinned at Emelie. "So, is there more?"

Emelie, initially believing him to be an assassin, was relieved to find that it was just a false alarm. "If you're going to come over, don't pull something like this next time. Why did you scare us like that? Thankfully, Jodie and Marcel weren't here, or else..."

Lyle arrogantly replied, "Even if they were here, they couldn't take me down."

"You'll win if you fight one-on-one," Emelie countered. "But they wouldn't fight you one- on-one. They'd team up. Can you handle two people?"

Lyle pondered for a moment before shaking his head. "You're right."

Wesley interrupted their banter, asking, "Where did you come from?"

Lyle hummed a tune, "From the grasslands."

Then, he added a line from a song, "I come from the grasslands, to warm your heart."

Wesley thought that Lyle was joking and was slightly annoyed. Meanwhile, Lyle smiled at him provocatively.

to Wesley, "He's serious.

to look

so Emelie pointed to the sofa

while Lyle promptly took the single

and picked it up. It was a simple 3x3 cube. With one hand, Lyle swiftly shuffled

fondness for Rubik's Cubes. Back

by William, whenever Lyle came to the Eastbay to deliver messages, he would play with the

William found out that he helped her escape.

from Capebatt

went to her house, accusing her of tricking him into sleeping with her. Wesley had been present, and the encounter had

said was too flirtatious. Since then,

on the sofa with her. "I asked

"Investigate what? Who were

leaving Capebatt City. There are things I can't do

four years ago.

back there to serve his sentence. He

you when you returned to Capebatt City,

and even went to Henry's ward with Emelie to say his goodbyes

with William and the fact that William had helped him before, he was reluctant to confront William directly. So, he handled other tasks for Emelie when she didn't have immediate needs. If she

me the other day,

finally looked up after Emelie addressed him. "The driver might know something. When I was looking for him, another group took him away before

immediately, "Was

train, but that old scoundrel was very sly. He managed to escape when I wasn't paying attention." Lyle put down the Rubik's