Winning Her Heart Back

 Keep Your Promise

Lyle replied, "She got drunk."

"Did you all drink a lot of alcohol? Was it at Bryan's home?" Wesley frowned. He refused to believe that Emelie had a great time with them.

"We had some plum wine. That type of wine is quite potent. Even though we didn't drink too much, it's enough to get someone tipsy," Lyle explained.

"So, she's at the old house now?" Wesley asked.

"Yes," Lyle replied.

Wesley heard a woman's voice in the background of Lyle's call. "And you, Lyle?"

Lyle touched his cheek with his tongue. "Cronus, are you checking up on me? I don't see why I should answer these questions.

"You do have an obligation," Wesley said coldly.

"Emelie mentioned that you would be protecting her. That's why I brought Jodie along. Otherwise, I could have just asked Jodie. Since you've taken Jodie's place to be with her, then you have a responsibility to answer me. So where is she right now?" Wesley said.

Lyle remained uncooperative. "If you're so eager to find out, why don't you come back and see for yourself?" Lyle ended the call right after.

Wesley immediately contacted the bodyguards that were protecting Emelie. They mentioned that Emelie and William had gone to Sunnington Hill two hours ago and had not yet returned.

Wesly put down his phone slowly. He suddenly grasped the entire situation. It was all a carefully crafted scheme

Bryan and Natalia had conspired to cause the incident at the theme park. Their objectives were clear. Firstly, they wanted to retaliate against Emelie.

Second, they wanted to lure Wesley away so that William could do whatever he wanted to Emelie with greater

ease

Thirdly, they wanted to amplify the incident's impact to weaken Wesley's position within Filo Group.

Wesley was angered. He glanced at the items on the sink and, in a fit of anger, swept them all onto the floor. His expression turned cold as he remembered that day when he announced in front of William that their wedding was scheduled for April.

On their way back to the old house, Emelie had asked him why he had never mentioned that their wedding date was set for April.

"Don't you want to marry me?' he had asked softly.

Emelie had paused for a moment before responding. "Of course I do. Why else would I have agreed to turn our pretense into something real?"

Initially, they announced Emelie as Wesley's fiancée merely as a strategy to give her a legitimate role within Filo Group and enable her to hold an executive position. The pretense turned genuine six months into their engagement, during an evening when Wesley returned from a banquet feeling tipsy.

Emelie took a hot towel from a maid and knelt on the sofa on one knee. She wiped the sweat off his forehead, asking him why he had drank so much alcohol.

He grasped her hand and asked, "Eme, do you remember when you said you would marry me?'

Taken aback, Emelie replied, "...I remember."

She recalled, during their high school days, after she had fallen during a physical education test, Wesley had

dashed across the field from to carry her to the infirmary. The other students had joked, calling him Emelie's husband

While she rested on his back, she asked, 'Wesley, will you marry me in the future?"

He agreed.

In his half-drunken state, Wesley's gaze shone with the brilliance of a meteor streaking through the galaxy as he stared at Emelie.

"Then will you truly marry me?" he asked.

The towel had grown cold as they continued to gaze at each other.

Emelie, biting her lip, responded as she had shown years ago, "Yes."

Wesley's eyes darkened. 'Last time, when I asked you to marry me, you agreed so firmly. Why were you hesitant just now? Was it because of William?"

"No, it wasn't,' Emelie said.Copyright by Nôv/elDrama.Org.

"Are you sure, Emelie? You didn't have any doubts?" Wesley questioned.

To prove herself, Emelie responded promptly, 'Didn't you say you wanted to have the wedding in April?'

"Yes," Wesley replied.

She said, 'April has the perfect weather. It is either too hot nor too cold, which I prefer. Should we hold the wedding in Coastalburg or return to Mercianna? Given your status, we would likely need to go back to Mercianna, right? I can rearrange my schedule to accompany you."

So, was she going to keep her promises?