<b>Chapter 1182 </b>Memories Unfaded


    The driver found it quite unbelievable when Lucius suggested having a meal with Marie earlier. It defied everything he hade to know about Lucius over the


    years.


    Even more astonishing was that there was a woman in Hawford who would reject him. It was simply beyond the driver’s imagination.


    Marie responded to Lucius‘ earlier words once the car came <i>to </i>a stop. “I don’t understand why you would bring Shane into this. You and I both know why you’re


    approaching me.


    “I know the Darnell family’s power is immense, enough to influence many things. The Hawford capital market is only so big, and many people don’t want the Quinnells to


    have a share of the pie.


    “But I am not the weak link you’re looking for. You’ve got the wrong person.”


    With that, Marie decisively opened the door and walked away.


    Marie’s firmness and decisiveness took the driver by surprise. She appeared delicate,


    but her actions were surprisingly strong and upromising.


    The car remained in ce, unmoving. Although there was no visible emotion on Lucius‘ face, the driver could tell that he wasn’t pleased. It was as if his meticulously


    nned meeting had been disrupted.


    “Boss?” The driver was unsure of what to do next.


    Lucius let out a derisiveugh and tightened his grip on the water bottle. “She’s really


    fixated on the Quinnell family. Fine, let her be.”Têxt ? N?velDrama.Org.


    Despite his words, he didn’t avert his gaze nor instruct the driver to start the car.


    “Have the car that’s following us take her wherever she wants to go.” Lucius


    continued.


    The driver froze for a moment. Lucius was behaving very unusually today.


    Members of the Darnell family always did things meticulously. For many years, Lucius had deliberately avoided any news regarding Marie. As long as he neither saw


    nor heard anything, he could control a certain impulse within himself.


    Otherwise, he might actually end up doing something as outrageous as taking another man’s wife. If that happened, Adrian Darnell, his father, would probably


    explode with anger.


    After all, the Whitmans and Quinnells were far from ordinary. If Lucius truly disrupted such an alliance, it would mean making powerful enemies in Cascadia.


    Lucius wasn’t exactly known for his strong sense of morality. He had lived rather


    recklessly in his youth.


    The concept of maintaining one’s purity was something he didn’t quite grasp. His approach to rtionships was consistently one of neither initiation nor rejection.


    It all changed during Lucius‘ high school years when he came to Cascadia and met


    Marie. That was when he understood what it meant to develop feelings within


    boundaries.


    Marie wasn’t conservative, yet she had her own set of principles when it came to


    rtionships.


    If there was one thing that remained constant, it was that Marie never saw Lucius in


    that light. She believed in a lifelongmitment to one person.


    Lucius couldn’t understand how Marie could be so certain that Shane was the one


    she could entrust her life to. Was it just because of Shane’s seemingly upright


    demeanor?


    But Lucius was no longer his younger self. Even if he saw Marie again, he could


    control himself. She was just another woman after all.


    Lucius told himself that, yet his grip on the water bottle never rxed. His piercing blue eyes held an unprecedented depth, revealing the turmoil within. Marie’s rejection had stirred emotions in him.


    Even the bait of reconciling with the Whitman family wasn’t enough to lure her in.


    What was it about Shane that made him so worthy in her eyes?


    Sometimes, people shouldn’t set limits for themselves. If Lucius hadn’t avoided news about Marie, he would have known that she had already divorced Shane.