“I don’t know. The door was closed when I arrived. I don’t see Liberty or Sonny around. Her workers aren’t here either.
“Why are you standing here if Liberty is not open for business?”
Jessica immediately answered, “I–I’ll leave right now.”
Holding onto her bag, Jessica quickly slipped past Duncan.
The man was a horrifying sight.
She would probably get nightmares if she stared at him.
After Duncan scared Jessica away, he looked at the closed door and pulled out his phone to call Liberty.
It did not take long for Liberty to accept the call.
“Why aren’t you open today, Liberty?”
Duncan came off a bit harsh.
“Seren and I are off to take care of some stuff in our hometown. I’m closed for the day to resolve the ownership issue with our parents‘ home today. What’s the matter?”
Duncan asked, “Oh. Is it going to be resolved today? Do you need to go to court?”
He could give a hand if Liberty wanted to take the Hunt family to court.
“We’re settling it out of court. I got to go, Mr. Lewis. Talk soon.”
“Sure.”
Duncan hung up the call.
Why did he not receive any news about Liberty’s home issue being resolved? She did not tell him anything.
Come to think of it, why would she tell him?
He was not anybody to her. She had no obligation to talk to him about her personal matters.
With that in mind, Duncan felt a lot better.
Since All You Can Eat was not open for business, Duncan had to rush to the office for a meeting on an empty stomach.
Not too long after he left, Lily appeared at the diner.
Of course, Lily could not see anything since the place was closed. She still had no idea that Liberty owned All You Can Eat.
She came to deliver homemade breakfast to Duncan.
Spotting Duncan’s parked vehicle right in front of the diner from afar, Lily pulled up and watched Duncan.
Lily saw Duncan scaring Jessica away.
She even took a photo of them so Mrs. Lewis could identify who Duncan was talking to.
Jessica left in a fluster, but she had a quick exchange with Duncan, so it meant that they knew each other. Lily was confident at first that she would bag Duncan in no time.
Despite Mrs. Lewis‘ heads–up, she remained optimistic while being on the lookout for other women around Duncan.
Lily would study and eliminate any potential rivals. By potential rivals, it was any woman who knew Duncan and had an interaction with him.
She would never go for anything that did not guarantee results.
After Duncan drove off, Lily started the engine and followed him.
No sooner had Duncan stepped into his office than his secretary knocked on the door.
“Mr. Lewis, Ms. Harmon is here.”
Duncan took a seat and said, “Tell her I don’t have time today. I’m going to a meeting. She can look for my mom for anything.”
The secretary was without a word.
It was too late.
Ms. Harmon was here and right behind him.
“I want to talk about a partnership with you. I don’t think Mrs. Lewis can help me with that,” Lily said while carrying two food containers into the CEO’s office.
The secretary tactfully retreated out of the office.
With Lily entering the office, Duncan cussed his secretary in his mind for informing him too late.
It was his mother’s fault too. Since his mother brought Lily to stroll around the company, it was basically giving Lily the green light to roam as she pleased.
Alas, Mrs. Harmon was a good friend of his mom for decades, so Duncan was not in a position to kick Lily out. Besides, Lily had not done anything to cross the line. She was merely visiting his company and proposing a collaboration.
For personal and professional reasons, Duncan could not tell Lily to get out.
“I guess you must not have breakfast yet, Duncan.”
Lily drew close with a smile and put the food containers on Duncan’s desk. “Mrs. Lewis told me to bring them to you. She said you often sleep late and wake up late, so you don’t have time to eat. Mrs. Lewis told me to bring you breakfast when she found out that I was going to meet you.
“I was driving behind you just now. I saw you going to a diner called All You Can Eat. Do you usually have breakfast there?”
She should try the food there sometime. Was the food that good?
Lily wondered whether Duncan was at the diner for the food or the operator.
“Ms. Harmon, my schedule is full for the day, so I don’t have time to discuss a partnership today. I need to get to a meeting in a minute.”
“I’ll book a time with the secretary later. We can talk business when you have time. What time is your meeting?”
“Nine o’clock.”
Lily looked at the time. Ten more minutes to go.
Curling her lips, she opened the lids of the food containers and put the food right in front of Duncan one by one.
“Ten minutes should be enough for you to finish the food. Better eat up. This is Mrs. Lewis’s love for you. Don’t turn down her loving gesture.”
Lily made the food herself.
Nevertheless, she did not mention she was the chef. Instead, she put it vaguely that Mrs. Lewis had the breakfast delivered to him.
Since she talked about a mother’s love, and Duncan was hungry, he gladly accepted the food and ravished the meal in mere minutes.
“Do we have a new chef at home?”
Putting down the cutleries, Duncan pulled out a napkin and wiped his mouth.
Lily poured him a glass of water.
Duncan thanked her and took the glass for a few sips.
“Could you tell?”
Lily asked with a grin, “How do you think the new chef did?”
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