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.

holding up her hand. She said to Wesley, "He's serious. He really did come back from

to look

standing, so Emelie pointed to the sofa

remained standing, while Lyle promptly took the single seat

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

for Rubik's Cubes. Back when she

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

found out that he helped

Lyle from Capebatt

servants the first time he went to her

what Lyle said was too flirtatious. Since

"I asked him to investigate

asked, "Investigate what? Who were you looking

me from leaving Capebatt City. There are things I can't do because of my

case is linked to a human trafficking case from four years ago. I asked Lyle to investigate those traffickers. A total of five people

to serve his sentence. He was released not too long

with you when you

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

due to his long-standing friendship 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.

she turned to Lyle. "You texted me the other day, saying that you found that person.

finally looked up after Emelie addressed him. "The driver might know something. When I was looking for

guessed immediately,

me on a train, but that old scoundrel was very sly. He managed to escape when I wasn't paying attention." Lyle put