The Billionaire’s Unexpected Proposal (Evelyn and Derek)

A confused frown creased Derek's brows as he watched Evelyn leave, Wasn't she supposed to be feeling guilty both for exposing his secret and for concealing her and Michael's relationship from him?

Why was she making it seem as though he was the one at fault? And why was she still insisting she didn't discuss his personal matter with anyone! Was she really not the one!

Hemused and then narrowed his eyes. Thinking about what she had said about him getting his lawyer involved, he admitted to himself that unlike him. Evelyn had treated their arrangement with utmost professionalism, and judging from how professional she had been, it didn't make sense that she would have made public something he told her in confidence no matter how juicy the news seemed. Certainly not when she had signed an NDA with him.

Now that he thought about it, he remembered how empathetic she had been when he told her about it and how she had treated him better after that day.

Even if everything pointed at her, he just couldn't believe that she was behind it. Perhaps she was really innocent and he had accused her wrongly.

if Evelyn was innocent, who then could have revealed the news about him? And how did the person find out about it! Derek mused.

Was he missing something? What was it? He mused and then turned when he noticed he was no longer alone.

An involuntary scowl appeared on his face when he turned and saw that it was Michael who had joined him.

"You lied to me," he growled, feeling annoyed that Michael had deliberately kept the truth from him.

"I didn't lie," Michael said defensively, "I told you I knew her. I just didn't tell you the whole truth-

"What difference does it make? How could you hide something as important as this? Can you give me any good reason why you hid the truth this whole time?" Derek snapped at him, cutting him off. "That was my personal relationship with her and you both were only working professionally. I didn't think I should get in the way-

"Get in the way? If you had told me, I wouldn't have-

"You wouldn't have what? Agreed to the interview? Michael asked, cutting him off "Didn't I try to stop you?" What did you tell me then? Michael asked, equally infuriated,

Derek combed his hand through his hair in annoyance, "Couldn't you have just explained and told me she is your ext" Derek asked and Michael snorted

difference would it have made? She didn't tell you about me either, did she? Even now after Ending out what a spiteful bitch she is

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"See? You are still taking her side even now. Why, Derek! Why are you taking her side? Shouldn't you hate her as much as I do after finding out how she exposed your secret and how she hurt me? Why are you still taking her side even after your parents asked you to stay away from her?" Michael asked wondering what was wrong with Derek and why he was being defensive of Evelyn when he was supposed to be mad at her.

"What I do or who I associate with is none of your business, at least not anymore. Not after you kept your relationship with her from me." Derek Paid coldly

"I didn't know how to

"Save it. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear whatever excuses you have to make," Derek said and without another word, he walked away to his car, leaving Michael to scowl at his back. Why was Derek making things difficult by being stupid? This wasn't the plan. Derek was supposed to direct all his anger at Evelyn, not him. Michael mused angrily as he watched Derek's car leave.

Inside the car, Derek sighed uredly as his driver drove him back to the Hotel. He never would have imagined that after a passionate night with her which he had always dreamt of in the past six years, he would wake to having a misunderstanding with her and then end up finding out that she was the same lady who had dumped his cousin on the morning of their wedding six years ago.

What sort of coincidence was this? Or perhaps it was not a coincidence and it was all planned by her? He mused and then shook his head

They had never met before that day six years ago, so there was no way she could have approached him because she knew who he was,

She couldn't even remember his face when they met again in his office. And judging by the way she had resisted his advances this whole time, he

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- doubted that any of this was schemed by her.

So, if she hadn't deliberately approached him six years ago, what were the chances that of all the people she could have run into on that day, it was he. Michael's cousin, who had just returned to the country?

Perhaps it was fate!

He paused when he remembered how she had been crying that day and all she had said about making a mistake.

What mistake had she been talking about? Did it have anything to do with Michael? Was it the reason she left Michael! He mused with a frown.

His frown deepened when he remembered Michael saying Evelyn had spent the night to their wedding with her lover only to return the next morning reeking of a man's cologne.

When she packed up and left the house after she argued with her family, everyone had assumed she left to go be with her lover, but he knew that wasn't true since he was the lover she had spent the night with,

What exactly happened? Why had Evelyn been crying that day? Why did she act so recklessly that day? Why did she call off her wedding? Why didn't she tell him about her relationship with Michael? What exactly was going on! He mused and then sighed again.

He would find out about what really happened that day but first, he needed to sort out the misunderstanding between them and find out who had dared to release something of that sort about him. After finding out who had released the news about him, he would find out how they got to know about it in the first place.

Taking out his phone, he dialed Susan's line. Since she was Evelyn's boss, he expected her to look into the issue and find out which of her staff had released the news and on whose order.

Derek hoped desperately that Evelyn's name wouldn't be associated in any way with the release of the news. He wanted her to be innocent and to show him that he wasn't making a mistake by giving her the benefit of the doubt.