Chapter 210 - I Heard You Went Back To Him

"What's going on with you?" Ximena asked. Zaria looked worried after getting the call from Desmond.

"He is acting strange." She sighed and threw her phone onto her bed. "Whatever. I'll talk to him about it tomorrow. He won't say a word even if I beg him right now."

"Do I need ammunition?" Ximena asked threateningly and Zaria laughed.

"Of course not."

Three tequila shots later, Ximena's phone vibrated with a text message. Her nose scrunched up when she realized that it was Liam's. "What does he want?"

"Take a look." Zaria urged.

She unlocked her phone and read his text message then she burst into laughter. "He wants to meet for a talk tomorrow."

Zaria frowned and rubbed her eyes as if that would clear out the drunkenness. She was starting to slur. "Do you want to talk to him?"

"Do I have a choice?" Ximena slurred.

"To make him shove his want up his ass, yeah." Zaria drunkenly suggested.

"Don't be snarky." Ximena laughed. "You know what I want to do to his ass? Come here, I'll tell you the secret."

Zaria shuffled over and presented her ear for Ximena to whisper into it.

Ximena put down her phone and lowered her voice to whisper. "I want to…" She lowered her voice much more, not certain that it was quiet enough. One couldn't risk getting eavesdropped on.

Zaria looked at her with a frown after she finished speaking. "You really want to do that?"

"Totally!" Ximena cheered.

Zaria thought about it with a frown. "I didn't hear what you said you wanted to do."

Ximena slapped her forehead and whispered loudly. "I said the only thing I want to do to his ass is grab it!"

….

The next morning.

"Ow!" Zaria groaned when she exited the elevator.

"What is it?" Asked Desmond, who had coincidentally ridden the same elevator as her.

"My head hurts." She complained. It didn't just hurt. She felt like the insides of her head had been passed through a mincer. It was probably payback for what she had threatened to do to Liam.

Desmond held both sides of her head. "Hangover?"

"I think so?" She looked at him through her hazy eyes. She shouldn't have drunk so much with Ximena last night.

He looked at her and pulled her out of the elevator, towards his office. "Let's get you some coffee."

He made her a cup of coffee on the coffee machine she had slotted in his office.

After a few sips, she felt much better and could finally tell what was going on around her. She shuddered at the realization that she had driven to work. That was dangerous! Thanking the heavens that nothing went wrong, she nursed her cup as she watched him sip his coffee. "Are you going to tell me what's going on any time this year? I'm talking about the reason for your call last night."

"Can't I hide anything from you?" He joked.

"Not a chance." She finished her coffee and he knew that if he didn't say it, it might morph into a misunderstanding.

He leaned his backside against his desk so he was facing her. "Nathaniel is after one of us. My guess is that his aim is you and he probably wants to use me or my mother to get to you."

"That's complex." She gritted her teeth.

"And worrisome. That's why I didn't want to tell you." He confessed.

She let out a breath and placed the empty cup on his desk. "And I don't appreciate you keeping secrets. Does my mother know?"

He shook his head and thought about it for a while, which resulted in him shaking his head. "She doesn't need to know."

She nodded and focused her gaze on him for a while. She didn't know what he was thinking but whatever it was, this matter was unwelcome.

"I have a bad feeling about this. Again. I thought he had given up."

"So did I." He finished his coffee and held up his cup. "Refill?" She shook her head, so he placed the empty cups aside. "Apparently, he has not given up."

She rubbed her temples even though they were no longer throbbing. Couldn't Nathaniel let them have some peaceful time before striking again?

She chewed the inside of her cheek. "Let's not tell my mother about it yet. At least not until we really have to tell her."

"What are you two planning to hide?" Lucy's voice resounded from behind her and she turned in shock. She almost dropped out of her seat.

"Mom?" She looked at Desmond questioningly.

"It was too late to warn you." He shrugged. "And besides, she would still find out one way or another."

She looked back at Lucy.

"I knocked." Lucy looked at them pointedly. "Are you going to tell me?"

"Do we have a choice?" Zaria groaned.

"No, but you have a lesson. Don't leave your door open while discussing secrets." She reprimanded them.

"Touché." Zaria smiled bitterly.

"It's Nathaniel Su." She explained what Desmond had just told her.

Lucy slapped her forehead, muttering under her breath. "Just what I need."

"You two calm down and go on with your lives like nothing is wrong. I'll handle him." She ordered.

"But…"

"No buts." She cut Zaria off and turned to leave.

As soon as she was back in her office, she sent Desmond an email with everything she had wanted to discuss with him before she walked in on their discussion, then she had Elena schedule a meeting with Nathaniel.

The latter got back to her within an hour.

"Ma'am, your meeting with Mr. Su has been set for this evening." Elena reported.

The old geezer was eager to meet. She scoffed. What a coincidence, she was eager to meet him too. It was about time they discussed the matters that had been put off for years.

So, as soon as she finished her work for the day, she went to the restaurant where she was meeting Nathaniel. He was already there, as eager as she expected and when she sat down, he flashed a brilliant smile that she found pretentious.

"My dear Luci. I heard you have gone back to him.." The first words that came out of his mouth were infuriating.