How to Destroy a Cheater Without Saying Goodbye novel Chapter 211

Caleb muttered to the young male assistant as they walked ahead, “Professor Reese’s guest is seriously weird. A bit scary, too. They’re still upstairs talking.”

The assistant smirked. “Come on, Professor Reese only mingles with the top names in academia. It’s no wonder you can’t follow their technical lingo.”

“True enough. They looked so capable, but also sort of eccentric—just what you’d expect from a research hotshot.”

Ablett walked beside Blanche, the crisp sleeve of his white shirt brushing gently against her dress. He leaned in and whispered, “Would you like to take my arm?”

She nodded. Blanche noticed Ablett’s gaze flick toward the entrance, his Adam’s apple shifting as he spoke. Realizing Gaylord and Wilhelmina were waiting outside, she slipped her hand into the crook of his arm.

Their skin touched through the soft fabric, a barely-there friction.

Side by side, they left the villa, greeting Gaylord and Wilhelmina waiting in the car before sliding into the sleek black sedan.

A procession of dark cars pulled away from the gated neighborhood, several of them carrying armed, highly trained security officers.

Inside the villa, the assembled bodyguards could only watch, not daring to make a move.

On the second-floor balcony, Eddy’s dark eyes were fathomless.

“Sir, it’s the McCarthy family,” the head of security reported. “They’ve got one of the biggest reputations in Capitol City.”

“Isn’t Madam supposed to be with Professor Reese?”

“How could this be…”

Eddy recalled the black car flying a national flag, the faint chime of a phone from inside, Laney sitting just beyond his reach.

He remembered crossing paths with Ablett in the government building, searching desperately as flames raged—and Ablett, a senior government official, would never have risked his career in such chaos unless…

Back then, Laney was still inside the building.

Then came the cell signal traced to the military airfield: at that moment, Laney was on Ablett’s jet!

It was him.

That sanctimonious hypocrite!

While Eddy was at his lowest, Ablett had whisked away his wife.

He thought of all the narrow misses, the times he passed so close to Laney but lost her again.

Fury and humiliation surged through him, his mind replaying Ablett’s cold, impassive face.

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