Chapter 2093


    -“Yeah, he also called to chat with me for a bit.” Lawrence looked at Nicole with eyes beaming with


    hope as Nn had given him some pep talk to work harder during the night prior.


    Otherwise, someone else might just whisk her away.


    Lawrence came to approach Nicole for that exact reason, as his masculine senses had informed him


    that it was a crisis. Before this, Nn had contacted Lawrence to help him find asions and


    circumstances in which he could set them both up. Nn had been urging Lawrence to work hard to


    woo his mother, adding that he would not stand a chance if he did not.


    Though Lawrence had attempted to gather some information from Nn regarding his desperate


    desire to get him to pursue his mother, there was no sess, as he could not discover anything. All he


    could tell was that something must have happened.


    Nicole’s pupils shrank slightly; she understood that Nn must have said something to Lawrence,


    prompting him toe over for a visit today.


    “Leo, the kids have a thing with yful banters. There are certain things we don’t have to take


    seriously,” she exined.


    Nicole had made that clear to Lawrence once before and ever since returning to San Joto. It was


    evident that something within Lawrence had changed a little.


    “Pretty sure I can tell a truth and a lie apart,” he said.


    ‘Regardless of whether it was Nn’s childish words or my own, my objective and goal is clear,


    especially what my heart wants. For five years, I have been silently giving her everything she wanted


    and how she wanted them. I gave her space, and I did not push into doing things she did not want to


    do. Never have I imagined that I would be on the verge of losing her because of an ident, and now,


    we’re drifting further and further away from one another,’ he thought as he became uneasy with the


    knowledge that things were not heading the way he wanted them to be.


    “Leo, I think you have to understand that, between the two of us, we’re just friends.” Nicole frowned,


    reminding him of their previous conversation.


    Lawrence proceeded to interrupt her. “You also said that you weren’t going toe back here.”


    “The world is evolving each day, and there are things that are beyond our control. Now that I’ve


    returned, I have to do what I should be doing,” she replied.


    Initially, Nicole did not want to return to San Joto at all because she wanted to elude her enemies and


    keep her children safe.


    Perhaps it was fate that brought me back here. It’s not something I can run from forever.’


    “Yeah, there are things we can’t control but there are things we definitely can control,’ he helplessly


    argued.


    It was uncertain as to whether it was Lawrence’s love for Nicole that had prompted him to work so hard


    to prevent her from returning to San Joto or it was because she had no recollection of San Joto. But to


    his dismay, their rtionship had changed as they got more and more distant with one another, a


    situation which Lawrence was dying to fix.


    “Leo.” A tinge of embarrassment shed in her eyes at once.


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    She knew what Lawrence meant but she had not expected such determination from him, making her


    feel powerless.


    Nicole knew that she had stated very clearly that the two of them could only be friends, a proposition to


    which Lawrence had respected. However, his perception on this had changed.


    “Let’s eat,” Lawrence said as he stifled the mental breakdown within, not wanting to press on further as


    he was worried that Nicole would sever allmunication with him.


    Nicole paused for a moment before hesitating. Meanwhile, Lawrence had already dug in while helping


    her with her food.


    “I can do it myself,” she said.


    Lawrence quickly changed the subject of conversation. He avoided all mentions of the issue earlier and


    about Nn entirely. From then on, he stuck to discussions about work matters. Nicole on the other


    hand was amenable to having discussions about the partnership fortheir business together.


    ‘I guess we can discuss this further in detail next time,’ Nicole thought.


    After lunch was over, the awkwardness and friction between the two of them hadpletely


    disappeared, with both of them looking much more rxed.


    “I’ll send you back.” Lawrence got up and left the restaurant with Nicole.


    Soon, the two of them arrived at the entrance of the Riddle Corporation. They went their separate ways


    as Nicole walked into the office and Lawrence got into his car.


    “Mr. Royce,” Ian greeted, noting that Lawrence was looking a little pale.


    “You don’t look too good. Did something happen?” Ian asked.