Breaking Free, Loving Again -The Flash Marriage with Mr. CEO novel Chapter 814

Chapter 814: If it’s with you.

When Ryan came out, only Michael was sitting at the table. His brows furrowed, and he approached the table. "Let’s go," he said.

Michael glanced up at him with confusion. "We are leaving?" he asked.

"Do you want to stay here forever?" Ryan snapped.

Michael stood up at once, shaking his head. "No, sir. I didn’t mean that. I was just asking."

"There is no need for you to ask. We are leaving now, and that’s it." Saying that, Ryan already tucked his hands in his dress pants’ pockets, ready to walk away. However, Michael stopped him again.

"Sir, aren’t we waiting for Secretary Zenith?"

Ryan paused at that and turned to look back at him. "Zenith?" he asked, and Michael nodded.

"She said she would be back soon." He then gestured towards the transparent glass wall on the side, outside which they could see Zenith standing with David. "She said she had something to talk to him and then left. If we aren’t waiting for her, shall I go and inform her about it?"

Ryan’s gaze was glued to her before he shook his head. "No need to make haste," he said, adding, "Let her talk. We will wait for her."

Michael leaned a little and asked, "But aren’t we rushing somewhere?"

Ryan turned and looked at him coldly. And Michael at once understood the cue. Straightening his posture, he said, "We aren’t rushing anywhere. I just misunderstood. Haha ... sorry sir."

Outside the restaurant, Zenith fidgeted with her fingers. "I am truly sorry, David. I really didn’t expect the evening to turn out like this."

"How can you not?" David asked, raising his brows at her as though he didn’t trust her. "You can’t be that blind, can you?"

"Huh?" she asked with a frown of confusion.

And he laughed. His gaze darted to look back in the restaurant. Jutting his chin towards Ryan, he said, "Only a blind can’t read his intention towards you. He wears it so clearly on his face. Just a look at him, and anyone could tell he doesn’t just see you as his employee. You mean more to him than he could actually express."

Zenith heard him and turned to stare the same way. Her gaze paused at Ryan. She still couldn’t tell. Not because she doesn’t trust what Ryan confessed to her, but because she could bring herself to trust herself. Does she really have something that could romantically attract him?

"He loves you," David answered her, even though he didn’t hear her inner doubts. "And that’s visible in his every little reaction. He wouldn’t have let you come to this date even if he wasn’t sure of how he feels for you. But given how he took you away with him, it’s clear that he had realized his feelings."

Zenith turned to him, and her gaze softened. "David, I am sorry."

"You don’t have to be," he shook his head, smiling. "This was not a date, and you mentioned it the moment you asked me out for dinner. Tonight was more like a compensation for what happened yesterday."

She pursed her lips because what he said was entirely true.

"You are a good man, David," she said, her voice soft. "And trust me, you —"

"Don’t make me trust anything, ma’am," he interrupted her. "If you do, my feelings might deepen for you. And I can’t fight a man as capable and powerful as him. So..." His words trailed off as he raised his hand already in surrender.

Zenith looked at him and smiled. She offered him her hand. "It was nice meeting you. No doubt my aunt praised you so much."

"Oh, please, don’t mention it." He took her hand and gave it a firm yet friendly shake. "I have always been pleasing among the ladies. If your heart weren’t with someone else, I am sure you must have also liked me."

She nodded. "Maybe."

"See, I knew it," he snapped his finger and pointed out. "But it’s fine. We can be friends."

"Sure, we will be." Zenith accepted before finally bidding him goodbye.

When he was gone, she turned to look back. Ryan was still looking her way, and there was something in his gaze that made her heart flutter. Maybe not his gaze, but his words. The words with which he confessed his feelings. She couldn’t just forget them.

Since the moment he said it, it had been ringing in her ears.

Michael showed him a thumb-up, and she nodded to him before walking back inside the restaurant. As she stepped inside, he asked, "Secretary Zenith, we have been waiting for you. Are you done?"

Zenith nodded. "Yes, it’s done. We can leave now." Her eyes briefly paused at Ryan, only to find him staring at her as though waiting for her to say something.

And she knew what he was waiting to hear, but she wasn’t sure how she should tell him.

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