Chapter 97


    Chapter 97 Bad Luck


    Duncan was feeling a touch of annoyance. What did this mean? Was Sylvia still taking Cyril’s side?


    Hadn’t go of Cyril crossed the line? Of course. Duncan knew it–even though they were divorced,


    Sylvia hadn’t let Cyril, and she wasn’t ready to admit it.


    As for Cyril, he was nearly at his limit for keeping aposed face. Although he was well aware


    that they were divorced and there was no rtionship left, he couldn’t help feeling ufortable


    seeing Sylvia defend Duncan. Why was she protecting him?


    “There are so many eyes on us, let’s just finish our meal and leave. I’ve got work this afternoon,”


    Sylvia said, her patience diminishing. She only had the lunch slot to spare and refused to waste it


    on Cyril.


    After hearing this, Duncan huffed and nodded, following Sylvia back to their table. The brief


    confrontation had made it all too clear that it was a deliberate dig at Cyril, an unnecessary unting


    of their closeness in the face of Sylvia’s ex–husband.


    Back at their table, Duncan casually draped his arm over Sylvia’s shoulder. She felt like saying


    something about it, but seeing his smug look, she held back. After all, today was about finding Cyril


    and unsettling him; if she made Duncan drop his arm now, he might just kick up a fuss.


    Though Cyril didn’t speak up, his darkened expression and the chill in the air around him were clear


    indicators of his foul mood to those at the table.


    “I don’t quite get it. Sylvia is attractive and has done some impressive worktely. For someone who


    parachuted into a VP role and secured so many partnerships, she must be quite capable. Why did


    you think of divorcing her?” Louis turned the conversation to Cyril.


    “And why didn’t you partner up with her then?” Cyril lobbed the question back at Louis, who now felt


    quite ufortable. He had initially thought Sylvia was just a pretty face and wasn’t pleased with


    the idea of working with someone he perceived as a vase.


    If he had known her true capabilities back then, he would have definitely acted differently. After all,


    in business, if partnering up could earn a profit, who you work with doesn’t particrly matter, and


    working with Sylvia might even mean a bigger slice of the profit pie.


    “It’s not like that; I just mean, Sylvia seems like a decent person. Don’t you regret divorcing her? If


    you two could get back together, it’d be good, right? A merger of two powerfulpanies would put


    you both at the top,” Louis suggested, not fully aware of the dynamics within their previous


    marriage. In his mind, a reunion between two powerhouses was a winning scenario.


    “I’ll never marry her again, not in this lifetime. If you think she’s a decent person, then consider


    partnering with her. Don’t worry about my stance. When I talked to you about her, it was with the


    hope that you’d consider a partnership. As for why I’m doing this, it’s simply to make reparations.


    When we divorced, she walked away with nothing,” Cyril said, not denying his reasons for helping


    Sylvia.


    Louis and Jonathan fell silent after Cyril’s admission.


    Everyone had assumed Cyril only wanted to help Sylvia because there was profit to be made. They


    didn’t expect he harbored any desire to make amends. If he felt this way now, what had he been


    doing all along?


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    “To put it bluntly, running into us here probably made them feel unlucky, but trying to make


    amends with her now, isn’t that a bitte? If you wanted to make amends, you could’ve done so


    earlier, yet you didn’t. It’s really toote now. And she’s the VP of the Ivan family’s business, which


    pays generously. Her sry is hardly modest,” Louismented, not really wanting to undermine


    Cyril but feelingpelled to point out the folly of his friend’s ways.


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    When they had worked together all these years, Louis really felt like asking Cyril what had been


    running through his mind. Why did he want to make amends with Sylvia? Looking at her today, did


    she seem like someone needingpensation? She seemed quite carefree post–divorce.


    Cyril was well aware of how freely Sylvia had been living since their divorce. Every time he saw her,


    he witnessed a different side of her–a side not seen in their years of marriage, as if she had been


    hiding her true self. Only after the divorce did Cyril realize Sylvia was quite a different person.


    But those realizations came toote and were utterly useless now. They were


    divorced, and up to this point, Cyril felt guilty but not regretful about the marriage. He had a hunch


    that if they’d stayed married, his entire life would have continued much like those monotonous three


    years.


    He preferred divorce over a lifetime of the same dreariness.


    “I didn’t consider partnering with her initially mainly because the Ivan family had an edge in Al


    development and were ahead of us. They didn’t seem to focus on it over the years, so I wasn’t too


    informed about their department’s sry details. Now that I’ve returned, they might shift their focus


    to internal development. Partnering with them might lead to being swallowed up,” Cyril exined.


    Despite the technicalities being on par with hispany, when it came to connections and financial


    resources, even with Cyril’s help and years of umtion, it would still fall short against the


    entirety of the Ivan family. It would be too disgraceful to cash in on the help from his family’s Walker


    empire for the venture he started independently.


    After a moment of realization, Jonathan eximed, “Got it, so you deliberately stirred things with


    Sylvia, huh? But aren’t you afraid of Sylvia striking first if you’ve riled her up?”