All Chapters of He Sent Me Away for Three Years. Now My Divorce Has Him Panicking.: Chapter 411 - Chapter 420

“Really?”Leo clearly hadn’t expected her to invite him in.“Of course.”Nina looked at him as if the question itself was strange.“It’s just fruit salad. As long as you don’t mind.”“I don’t.”His answer came immediately.“I definitely don’t mind.”Once they were inside, Nina set the dinner he had brought on the table, then went to get the fruit salad she had made.She wasn’t much of a cook, so she usually stuck to simple things like this.Fortunately, fruit salad was hard to mess up.She had cut up several kinds of fresh fruit and mixed them with yogurt. It was simple, colorful, and refreshing.Nina scooped some into a bowl for him.“If you don’t like it, you don’t have to finish it. Seriously.”Leo had no intention of leaving any behind.If anything, he was worried she might only give him one serving.The two of them sat across from each other in silence.Nina ate the dinner he had made.Leo ate the fruit salad she had made.Neither of them said much.They both k

When Professor Smith first walked into the restaurant, he didn’t see anything unusual about it.The decor was simple and understated, with clean walls, muted colors, and very little decoration.Compared with the extravagant welcome Yvonne had arranged at the airport, this place seemed almost modest.So Professor Smith had no immediate objection.Anyone who knew what to look for, however, would have seen that the simplicity was deceptive.The tables and chairs were handcrafted from rare hardwood. The floors were made from expensive natural wood, finished in a soft matte sheen. Even the plain-looking light fixtures had been custom made from premium materials.There was no gold trim, crystal chandelier, or flashy decor announcing how much everything cost.The luxury was deliberately subtle.Professor Smith and most of his team had no reason to pay attention to details like that, so as far as they were concerned, it was simply a quiet, comfortable restaurant.The dinner itself wen

“You came back just to see me?”Yvonne repeated the words, studying him with interest.She still didn’t know what Jack wanted, but one thing was obvious.Whatever had brought him back, he wasn’t here on Professor Smith’s behalf.Otherwise, there would have been no reason for him to return alone.Jack didn’t explain.He simply smiled, closed the door behind him, and nodded toward the chair across from her.“Mind if I sit?”“Go ahead.”Yvonne smiled and reached for the teapot.“They have a really good loose-leaf blend here.”She poured him a cup and slid it across the table.“Try it.”“Thanks.”Jack took a sip.“Not bad.”They raised their cups almost casually.To anyone watching, it might have looked like nothing more than two people making polite conversation over tea.But neither of them was interested in small talk.They were feeling each other out, waiting to see who would show their hand first.Jack did.“For what it’s worth, I actually liked the place you pick

The moment Yvonne got home, she kicked off her heels, set down the food she had brought back, and immediately turned to the housekeeper.“Where’s James?”The housekeeper had worked for Yvonne long enough to know her temper and was more than a little afraid of her.Seeing how agitated she looked now only made her more nervous.She quickly took the bags from Yvonne’s hands.“Mr. Gibson is upstairs. He’s been in his study since he got home.”Yvonne’s expression darkened.Without another word, she headed for the stairs.Unfortunately, Liam chose that moment to run over to her.Yvonne had been treating him relatively well over the past few days, enough that the little boy had begun to forget how frightening she could be.The moment he saw her, he eagerly asked her to play with him.But Liam was still too young to understand the complicated interests tying the adults around him together.Yvonne hadn’t suddenly become kinder because she cared about him.She was only trying to sta

With every step James took away from her, Yvonne’s heart sank a little further.She could feel it clearly now.The special treatment he had once reserved for her, the patience and indulgence he used to show her, had been fading for a long time.The realization hurt.But beneath the disappointment was something stronger.She refused to accept it.She couldn’t let things keep going this way.James had to be hers.That obsessive thought followed her into the next morning.Yvonne arrived at the office unusually early and threw herself into the project with an intensity no one had seen from her before.Fortunately for her, Professor Smith’s involvement had already made a major difference.With his guidance, the gene-editing project that had been falling apart was finally getting back on track.Corrupted data had been corrected. Misidentified gene targets had been rechecked. Gaps in the experimental workflow had been filled in.Research that had nearly stalled was moving forward