Without thinking much about it, I drove out and received a message from Theo while I was on the way there. He asked me to wait for him in the Greek restaurant near the office.
It was a private restaurant. From the alley, it looked just like an ordinary courtyard. If Theo had not sent the address, I would not have been able to find it.
Soon after I arrived, a young man came out and asked me if I was Miss Lane. I told him yes and he proceeded to lead me into a very sophisticated-looking private room. He told me that Mr. Grant had ordered our meal and I just had to wait for a moment.
Right after I sat down, my phone rang. When I looked a t the caller ID, my heart jolted and I almost dropped m y phone to the floor.
I knew what was to come could not be avoided.
Tyler finally appeared.
My entire body trembled as my hands squeezed the phone. I stared at his number, and an image of Tyler’s face popped up in my head.
For a moment, I almost wanted to reject the call.
However, I knew very well that if he was looking for m e, he was not going to stop. I knew that hanging up the
phone would not solve the problem.
I suppressed my fear, and after I calmed myself down, I answered the phone. I asked in a shaky voice," Where are you? What do you want?"
"You don't have to be so nervous, Wandy. I was just thinking about you." At the other end of the line came Tyler's playful laugh.
I had always been afraid of his laugh. It made him seem like he was plotting something. I said in a deep voice, "Tyler, it's been so many years. We're not kids anymore. We have our own lives, so can’t we just live our own lives and mind our own businesses?"
It was hell when I was with him and I had to work really hard to escape that prison. I had no intentions o f going back to how I lived before this.
"Wandy, we’ll always be family and we’re destined to cross paths. Do you know how much pain I’ve been in all these years without you? I... can't stay away from you. I need you," Tyler said those words that were heavy with emotions and tinged with affection.
However, they meant something else in my ears.
The helplessness and fear I was feeling almost broke me. I asked in a trembling voice, "What do you want?"
Tyler was like a ghost as his presence only made others afraid and suffocated.
"You should know very well what I want!" He finally got angry. After he said that in a cold voice, he hung u
p the phone.
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