Chapter 18 Hesitation-1

    Vincent had no idea why he did that.

  It was the first day he came back to work. He didn’t want anyone to know, so he took a taxi and showed up at noon.

  Meeting Lena was purely accidental. He had never expected to see this mysterious green-eyed woman again. During the past few days, he didn’t even allow himself to think about her.

  He was now this crappy sl/ash crazy man who had just scared his own “wife” away from home and had just insanely “adopted” an illegal daughter. Lucky for him, Charlie started to communicate with him recently under Angela’s influence. It just felt wrong to think about another woman at such a moment.

  What sort of man does that anyway? Not only wolves, even humans aren’t allowed to chase their partners away by threatening to kill them, and then start being happy with another woman.

  No matter what, Talia was still his mate. It made Vincent feel guilty even thinking of the fountain he saw Lena for the first time. Not to mention the insane pleasure and joyfulness he tasted whenever he thought about her. It just felt like a sin.

  That was why he panicked when he saw Lena again at the fountain. At first, he thought he had made a mistake. It was just some similar woman. But his body had already given reactions. His **** enlarged in his pants instantly like it was inflated by an air pump. And then, before he could come out anything, literally anything, to save himself from embarrassment. The woman turned around and he saw the tears on her face.

  It was the worst thing he had ever experienced. She looked so sad and broken. It put down the fire inside Vincent’s heart right away. At that moment, he felt the sky was about to fall. All he wanted to do was to hold her in his arms and tell her everything would be okay. But he couldn’t. Because it was a strange woman and he still had a mate.

  Thus, he smiled at her, stupidly, and arrogantly, to chase her away. It was either that, or him chasing her around like a puppy, begging her to love him back even for one percent. As the Alpha of a pack, as the mate of another woman, and as the father of a son, he could never do that. He should never ever make any mistakes. Then why after he successfully kept the principle, he suddenly felt so sad and heartbroken? It almost felt like a truck had just run across his heart and the raging regrets almost burned out his brain.

  He almost ran back to the building to escape from his cowardice. The sullen look on his face frightened every one of his employees who saw him. He knew he had important work to do today, but he couldn’t concentrate. The entire afternoon, all he did was stay in his office, pacing around, cursing himself for the stupid decision he made.

  By the end of the day, Sophia knocked on the door and handed him the agenda for the following week. Vincent skimmed over the paper but could read nothing. He then threw the clipboard on the desk with rage and ordered Sophia, “Get out.”

  Sophia couldn’t help but shiver at that intimidating, even inhuman order. Ever since she got this job, she had never seen Vincent this cranky before. She had no idea what happened to Vincent, but she had no intent to sacrifice herself to take the bullet.

  She quickly turned and walked towards the door. Unfortunately for her, right before her hand reached the doorknob, she heard Vincent order again, “Wait. Come back.”

  Sophia almost twisted her nose and eyebrows together in misery. She reluctantly turned and walked back to Vincent’s office desk with her head lowered.

  Vincent sat there behind the desk without saying anything. He wanted to ask if Sophia knew that green-eyed woman. He saw them talking in the hospital that day. But it felt so wrong to ask about another woman while he still had a mate. And there was Charlie. The kid had just started to walk out of the house. He couldn’t suddenly drop him a new mom. Not to mention that…what if that woman had already married? What if she didn’t like a boring businessman like him?

  He kept the same posture behind the desk, and struggled for about half an hour.

  When Sophia was about to fall asleep in front of his desk. He finally asked, and it scared the young secretary.

  “That woman you bumped into in the hospital, with green eyes. Do you know her?” He said, keeping his eyes on the desk while he asked that question.

  Sophia instantly went sober. She thought Vincent had found what she gossiped with Lena at noon in the diner.

  She almost jumped and quickly explained, “I didn’t mean to! I just! I don’t know! I swear! I am sorry! Please don’t fire me! I promise! I will never do it again!”

  Vincent couldn’t help but knit his brows. He had no idea what the secretary was talking about. And he wasn’t interested in finding out.

  “Just give me her name,” he ordered again.

  Sophia instantly answered, “Her name is Lena Evans. She is a child therapist working in a clinic around here. We’ve just met for a week. But she is a nice person, very, very nice person.” She had no idea why she added the last sentence.

  Vincent stayed in silence. He liked what he had just heard.

  Lena, the pronunciation of her name was so beautiful. It sounded like a spring breeze gently running through the shining wind chime in a green valley. It was so melodious and heart-soothing. He couldn’t help but smile, repeating that beautiful name in his heart over and over again.

  He had the urge to ask Sophia to introduce him to this woman. He even wanted to buy a diamond and propose to her right away. But he had a son who had special needs and himself was known as a married man. He really shouldn’t ask his employee more about a strange woman.

  He sighed, after painful struggles, and then waved his hand, asking Sophia to go away.

  Sophia heaved a sigh of relief. She knew it meant Vincent wasn’t going to punish her for what she did at noon and quickly turned to leave.

  Right when her hand reached the doorknob, she unexpectedly heard the man's voice again.

  “Wait,” he said. There was obvious hesitation in his voice. Still, he asked after a few moments,

  “What’s her clinic’s name?”