Chapter 2 Collision Of worlds

Lucas

The conference room at Bernard Law 1st viscount Montgomery of Alamein Industries have become clean and powerful due to the empire I had built. The heady perfume of polished timber and leather- primarily based totally fills the air as my prison team gives data approximately the acquisition . Their voices mixed proper right into a silly hum, my cognizance elsewhere.

"Elena Carter has been notified of the provider," without a doubt certainly considered one in every of them said , drawing my hobby once more to the conversation.

"And her response?" I asked, despite the fact that I already knew what it'd be.

"She rejected it outright."

Of direction she did.

I leaned once more in my chair, tapping my fingers in competition to the armrest. Elena had constantly been headstrong, and I demanded her for it- even supposing it worked in competition to me.

"What's the following move, sir?"

"We don't take no for an answer," I said calmly, a plan already forming in my mind. "Schedule a meeting with her. I need to provide for myself."

My team exchanged careful glances, but they nodded. They knew better than to question me.

As they filed out of the room, I got here to the floor-to-ceiling domestic home windows overlooking the city. It wasn't quite an awful lot the acquisition anymore. It has become about seeing Elena, being close to her once more .

I didn't care how much resistance she raised. I changed into going to reveal to her that I'd changed.

Elena

The knock on my administrative center door has become sharp and deliberate.

"Come in," I called, now no longer bothering to seem up from the stack of memories on my desk.

When the door opened, I anticipated Mia or without a doubt taken into consideration certainly considered one among my team members. Instead, the air began to shift, a familiar strength filling the room.

"Hello, Elena."

I froze, my pen slipping from my fingers . Slowly, I looked up.

Lucas Bernard Law 1st viscount Montgomery of Alamein stood in the doorway, his presence as commanding as ever. He has become sporting a tailored navy in form that accentuated his extensive shoulders, his piercing blue eyes locked on me.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, my voice much less heated than I intended.

"Business," he replied smoothly, stepping internally and beyond the door within him.

My coronary heart raced as he approached, the memories of our past crashing over me like a tidal wave. I clenched my fists beneath the desk, determined now no longer to permit him see how heaps his presence affected me.

"I already rejected your offer," I said firmly.

"I desired to speak about it in person," he countered, his tone measured.

I stood, assembling his gaze head-on. "There's now no longer something to speak about . Carter Luxe isn't for sale."

His lips curved proper right into a faint smile, one that didn't achieve his eyes. "Stubborn as ever."

"And you're as conceited as ever," I shot once more .

For a moment, we genuinely stared at every difference , the tension amongst us crackling like a live wire.

"Why are you sincerely here, Lucas?" I demanded. "This isn't quite a ton of business, is it?"

He hesitated, a flicker of vulnerability crossing his face earlier then he masked it. "Maybe I wanted to see you."

I laughed, despite the fact that there has been no humor in it. "After 3 years of silence? You don't get to waltz into my life once more and fail to care."

His jaw tightened, but he didn't seem away. "I made mistakes, Elena. I let you down, and I regret it every day. I'm genuinely soliciting for a risk to make matters proper ."

His terms hit a nerve, stirring feelings I thought I'd buried. But I wouldn't permit him to win so easily.

"You took your risk," I said quietly. "And you blew it."

I walked to the door and opened it, signaling the give up of our conversation. "If you no longer have something else to say, you may leave."

Lucas didn't move, his gaze burning into me. "This isn't over, Elena."

His terms dispatched a shiver down my spine, but I refused to permit him to look at it.

"Goodbye, Lucas."

With one very last appearance, he has come and walked out, leaving me by myself with the hurricane of emotions he'd unleashed.

Lucas refuses to head down once more , vowing to discover each different way to win Elena over. Meanwhile, Elena is compelled to confront the unresolved feelings his go-to has stirred. As their paths maintain to cross, every is drawn properly right into a conflict of wills that neither is prepared to lose.

What will Lucas do after interrupt via Elena

one's defenses? And how lengthy can Elena resist the pull of their past ?