Passion
Passion 89

Chapter 89

In the end, Yvette had no choice but to give up. Perhaps the tussle had tired her out. She was exhausted, and she fell asleep too.

The next day, sunlight shone on their faces. Xavier had never slept better.

He opened his eyes and glanced at Yvette, who was nestled in his arms. The cold look in his eyes softened and became unusually gentle.

The air–conditioning was on, and seeing her huddled into a ball, Xavier raised a hand to get his coat and cover her with it.

At that moment, Yvette opened her eyes. When she saw Xavier’s gentle eyes, his name slipped out of her mouth. “Xav.”

Xavier was startled. Yvette came back to her senses and rolled out of his arms at once. She fell heavily onto the floor and took a sharp intake of breath in pain.

Xavier saw how flustered she was, and he pulled her up. “What did you call me just now?”

“What?” Yvette decided to play dumb.

Xavier decided not to press any further. He got up and said sarcastically, “You really do forget things easily, Ms. Snyder.”

The look in his eyes was now’icy and impassive. It was very different from how gentle he had looked that morning.

Yvette realized that she had been mistaken, and there was a flash of disappointment in her eyes.

Ever since she had gone to college and Xavier went to work at Lane Group, he had become a completely changed person. He had become extremely ruthless.

The gentleness in his personality was gone, and he was like a giant block of ice. He was no longer the man who had gone to see her in the middle of the night just because someone had bullied her…

At first, Yvette thought that it was just because work was too difficult and he was under too much pressure, which was why his temper was getting worse and worse.

Later, she realized that he had always been like that. It was just that she had never really known him as a child.

“Mr. Lane, I’ve already treated you to dinner, so I won’t send you off,” she said. She was hinting for him to leave.

Xavier wasn’t a mild character, either. “Are you sure you want me to leave?”

She said nothing.

“I’m asking you a question!” Xavier’s expression was cold. He did not know why, but he hated it when Yvette ignored him.

Seeing that he was angry, she said again, “That’s not what I meant. I just think that you should

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probably be at work at this hour, I won’t be going to the office today.”

It was a weak explanation, and it made Xavier angrier. After he left, he sat in the car for a long time, unable to come to terms with it.

Yvette was like a completely different person. She was no longer the woman who walked on eggshells around him and couldn’t bear to make him angry.

Xavier pulled open the car’s glove compartment to get a cigarette. He reached in, only to replace that it was empty. The cigarettes that he had instructed his staff to prepare were all gone.

Ever since Yvette disappeared, he had developed this bad habit. The other issue facing him was

insomnia.

For the past five years, he could only fall asleep at three or four in the morning, and sometimes he even had to take pills.

However, he had developed a resistance to them after taking so many, and the higher the dosage, the worse his sleep quality was. That was why it had taken so long for the pills to take effect last night.

The doctor had told him that his condition might be due to too much pressure and that he needed to relax and rest.

However, he could not rest at all. The moment he rested, he would think about the ridiculous things that Yvette had said. After sitting alone in the car for a very long time, he finally drove off.

Kiki had asked Yvette to meet her that day. She had arranged the information for suing Daphne, and she wanted to show Yvette.

Yvette looked through it page by

Every piece of evidence was very extensive.

There was even content about how Carnival Central Media had helped Daphne rig the media, as well as chat records and recordings about how she had bought or plagiarized other people’s work.

“Who gave you these?”

“Zac did. He said that Mr. Lander was the one who asked him to give them to me,” Kiki replied,

Yvette felt rather guilty. Claude had been the one helping her for all these years. She already owed him

too much.

“Daphne is too influential right now, and it won’t be easy to defeat her. However, you can definitely get your work back,” Kiki said.

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