Tessa and Marissa were happily chatting when Lester knocked on the door and walked into the office.
"Tessa, are you available tonight?"
Lester looked at Tessa, who returned his gaze and asked, "Why? Do you need help with something?"
Lester chuckled and replied, "Cassie hasn't seen you in a while and has been asking for you. She wants to know whether you'd like to join her for dinner."
Tessa stopped short. She could tell that Lester had feelings for her.
Back then, Lester had brought Cassandra over to help Seline with her illness.
Now that Seline was all better, Tessa had returned their kindness with meals and gifts. She had done more than enough to repay them.
Still, she couldn't help but feel that Lester was using Cassandra as an excuse to ask her out.
Although she might be a little narcissistic to arrive at that conclusion, she had also begun to notice that Lester had been using Cassandra as a means to meet her outside of work.
Sometimes they would meet at her place, and sometimes they would choose to meet up elsewhere.
If this continued, they would eventually cross the line of being just friends.
Suddenly, a memory flashed in her mind's eye. She couldn't help but recall that aloof silhouette standing under the eaves that one morning—and his warm embrace.
Tessa lowered her gaze. "I have plans tonight. Please tell Cassie I'm sorry as I won't be able to make it."
Lester stiffened slightly. It seemed that he didn't expect her to refuse his invitation.
He looked at Tessa quietly before murmuring, "Alright."
After Lester left, Marissa scrutinized Tessa with a knowing smirk on her face. "You rejected him because of Stevie, didn't you?"
Tessa busied herself with work, but she didn't deny Marissa's speculation.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: His Unveiled Passion
Why make an uninteresting, irrelevant twist when readers are waiting for Tess and Stephen to be together?...
Gosh just let Tessa and Stephen get back together already! Ugh...
Oh my god, when is this book finishing... they're not even back together yet and more nonsense side plots.....
Whoa! Hahahahahaha! Go, Sophia! Burn, stupid Rowena! Lol...
Sooo~ Chapters 310-318 were just a repeat of Jacqueline’s punishment, official expulsion from the Jacobson family, and arrest. With few changes since Tessa and Stephen are not together this time. So Tessa didn’t witness how Jacqueline was tortured at Stephen’s base, though at least Tessa was still called over and witnessed how Stephen officially expelled Jacqueline from the Jacobson family and how Stephen’s subordinate made Jacqueline grovel in front of Tessa. Lol. I hope Jacqueline’s really out of the story now....
Also a lot of chapters were missing here. I went back to the application where it was originally published that’s why i know that this site is not reliable...
Fucked up book! Seems like the authors were not talking to each other. LOL. Yes authors, because of the inconsistencies....
The story went downhill after pg200 1. Why is Jacqueline back… she was expelled from the family already 2. There was no reason for Rowena to be mad at Tessa 3. The Jacobson already knows that Stephen wants to get back witb Tessa after they deal with James, so why is Rowena pushing hard? LOL 4. The family also knows that Stephen and Nancy have some sort of deal. The story was okay from page 1-199, but clearly it’s a thumbs down. I can deal with grammatical errors, but story errors is just different now....
This is funny! Jacqueline was also the culprit why James knew that nancy was Stephen's cousin. So, really, what happened when steohen tortured jacqueline hahah...
I wonder how many authors does this book have? Suddenly jacqueline was back and continue to bad mouth tessa. And was stunned that tessa knows her feelings about stephen. And then rowena was freaking mad at tessa too; because there werw multiple instances that tessa sharp-tongued her. 🤣...