Since She Met Lucian novel Chapter 136

"Nicholas, did you hear that? He's your son!" Fannie pointed at Lucian, trying to find some comfort from Nicholas.

"I already told you—they're all grown up now. You have to stop interfering with their lives." Instead of siding with Fannie, Nicholas stood up for Lucian.

"Yeah, Fannie. They're not kids anymore. We need to leave them alone and allow them to make their own decisions," Emma echoed. Emma sighed as she tried to comfort Fannie.

However, Fannie didn't seem to be convinced. In her mind, Emma and Nicholas were only siding with each other for Fiona's sake. Otherwise, they wouldn't be indulging Lucian like this.

"What? In the end, your daughter's going to be left alone and abandoned!" Fannie snapped, deliberately provoking Emma.

Fannie regularly had afternoon tea with Shelly in the Zhan mansion. Every now and then, Shelly would mention Emma and the hatefulness in her tone was undeniable. Fannie decided to use this against Emma—weaponizing her weakness in an attempt to drive a wedge between her and her daughter.

"I'll be sending the divorce papers over to you soon. Take care of yourself." Lucian had already learned from the doctor about Shelly's condition. The doctor said that it was nothing serious and she could be discharged after a week of rest.

Shelly's face turned pale. She couldn't believe this was happening and she refused to accept it. She cried, "Lucian, you can't do this to me! I'm never going to divorce you! Never!"

As soon as Lucian stepped out of the ward, he heaved a huge sigh of relief. With that, he called Jonny and rushed to the villa in the south of the city.

He wasn't a heartless person by any means but when it came to love, he had to prioritize himself—he wasn't going to sacrifice his entire life by not being with the woman he loved.

When he learned the truth from Edmund, whatever little guilt he felt immediately vanished. He felt absolutely no remorse for Shelly since this was all her doing anyway.

Meanwhile, Edmund was exerting all his efforts to stop Lucian from returning to the Zhan Group.

The front yard of the villa was filled with flowers. With nothing else to do, Amelia spent her time watering them and showering them with good words.

Since Courtney and Kent were back together, they talked a lot on the phone and they were very intimate. Not wanting to be a bother, Amelia decided to head downstairs.

As soon as she finished watering the flowers, she heard a car whistling at the gate. Out of instinct, she looked towards the gate and her eyes were immediately glued to the handsome person that was just getting out of the fancy car.

Lucian was exceptionally captivating—his shirt was snug at all the right places and even in his slightest movement, he was elegant and noble.

Every time Amelia saw Lucian, her heart would start pounding in her chest and this instance was no exception. Frozen in place, she lowered her head and averted her gaze.

"Are you watering the flowers?" Lucian asked in surprise when he saw Amelia holding a watering pot.

While she was happy to see him at first, this didn't last very long as her mind immediately went to the fact that Lucian was forcing her to stay here. Her face darkening, she snapped, "Well, since I have nothing to do, I have to entertain myself with whatever I can think of. Wouldn't you do the same?"

"Well, that sucks," he commented, frowning.

As Amelia kept her gaze on Lucian, she felt a mixture of both confusion and happiness arising in her heart.

When did the cool and refined Lucian ever pay attention to such things?

However, his obvious nervousness made Amelia feel excited.

"Where's Courtney?" Lucian asked in an attempt to ward off the tension between them.

"She's on the phone," Amelia answered lightly, shrugging.

With a faint smile on his face, Lucian sighed. "Finally, I was able to play matchmaker."

"What makes you say that?" A strange feeling came to Amelia's heart. She thought for a while and asked, "Did you help them get together in the first place?"

"I just nudged them gently towards each other. Since they genuinely love each other, I didn't have to do much work." Lucian smiled back at her.

"Thank you." Amelia expressed her gratitude sincerely.

"Why?" In Lucian's opinion, there was no need for her to be so polite to him.

"Because now that Courtney and Kent are back together, she's much happier now. She doesn't fake her smiles anymore like before." She was happy for Courtney and she thought that Lucian had done a good thing.

For a long while, Lucian just kept his gaze on her, not saying a word.

This sudden silence confused Amelia. She looked up at the handsome chiseled face with admiration.

Lucian's eyes were dazzling. There was a certain tenderness to it that as they gazed at each other in silence, their eyes gleamed of longing.

Suddenly, Amelia averted her gaze. She couldn't look into his eyes anymore as she was afraid that if she continued to do so, she wouldn't be able to control her feelings. If that happened, she would just fall in love with him all over again.

"When we get back together, I hope I'll only ever see nothing but smiles on your face." He closed in the distance between them, a hint of uncertainty in his eyes. He reached out and gently caressed her smooth face, his warm breath hot on her flushed face.

Mouth agape, Amelia didn't know what to respond. She didn't know what to make of this, her brows furrowed together.

Lucian noticed the shift on the look on her face as his eyes reflected a sense of loss and helplessness.

He didn't want to force her to answer his question nor did he want to upset her. So he just smiled and said, "Let's go upstairs to see what Courtney is doing."

Amelia looked at him. She could hardly open her eyes under the sunlight.

"Is Jonny the CEO of the An Group now?" She couldn't shake off the uneasiness she felt when she watched the news as it said that Jonny and Lucian had conspired together in a power struggle to dethrone Edmund.

"Edmund deserved what he got and Jonny isn't to blame," he replied flatly.

As Amelia watched his face, cold and indifferent as usual, she couldn't help but think to herself how much of a mysterious Lucian still was even after all this time.

"So are you saying that... You and Jonny are on good terms now?" It seemed that there was no tension between Jonny and Lucian anymore and it was obvious in how Lucian spoke about him.

"Was there a time when we were not?" Lucian frowned slightly and smiled disapprovingly.

Amelia couldn't help herself as she rolled her eyes and thought inwardly, 'Any time you and Jonny saw each other, you always looked angry. What are you talking about?'

"Hmph!" With that, Amelia headed inside the villa.

Just as Courtney was about to head downstairs to look for Amelia, she caught sight of Lucian. Jumping off the stairs, she said happily, "Looks like all is well! The lovers are back together!"

With a smile on his face, Lucian purposely glanced at Amelia and nodded. "I'm going through the divorce procedure with Shelly now. I can take Amelia back after a week."

Although he was answering Courtney's question, his eyes were fixed on Amelia.

"Divorce?" Amelia suddenly raised her head and looked at Lucian in surprise and disbelief.

"Yes." Keeping his gaze on her, he made sure he sounded as sure as the sun was going to rise in the morning.

Amelia didn't expect that he would be so calm as if all of this was nothing out of the ordinary.

"So does this mean that you and Amelia can start over again?" Courtney looked very excited.

Lucian answered with a light "Mhmm."

"That's just your wishful thinking, isn't it?" Amelia said coldly once she'd figured out what was going on.

She didn't know why but she felt as if her chest was tightening, making it difficult for her to breathe.

"Amelia, don't say that..." Courtney pleaded, pulling at Amelia's sleeve.

"Courtney, do you think I should just go along with this? Like I'm a puppet with no free will?" She knew that Shelly loved Lucian deeply. Even if he didn't love her, she believed that he shouldn't be so heartless as to just abandon his marriage with Shelly like that.

When the Zhan Group was in trouble, she signed the divorce agreement to save the company. Even though she admit that she didn't really think it through, at the very least, the Zhan Group was indeed saved. Still, she should keep her promise which was to not have anything to do with him anymore.

Lucian should be fulfilling his obligation to Shelly as her husband instead of stabbing her in the back after the An Group had helped him out in his time of need.

No wonder Shelly was injured and hospitalized. She didn't want to divorce Lucian!

"It's not like that. You and Lucian love each other. Why shouldn't you be together?" Courtney couldn't understand where Amelia was coming from.

"Do you think I would still love a man who doesn't know how to take his responsibilities seriously?" Amelia smiled coldly.

The indifference in her tone broke Lucian's heart. Still, on the outside, he kept his composure.

"Stop talking nonsense." Courtney pulled Amelia aside and whispered, "Even if you're not thinking about yourself, you have to think about the baby. You want to be a single mom? You sure about that? Isn't that unfair to your baby? You've decided the course of his entire life before he could even choose for himself."

Once Courtney mentioned the baby, Amelia immediately softened. That was her weakness—the baby.

She didn't want her baby to have a broken family. Now that it's come to this point, she was finding it difficult to decide and she didn't want to be selfish.

"I know you still have your doubts and I promise you I'll spend my entire life asking for your forgiveness. Will you consider then getting back together with me?" Lucian offered sincerely.

"All right. It's a deal." Amelia looked up at him coldly.

"I'm a man of my word," Lucian answered confidently.

As Courtney stood beside them, watching them with her furrowed eyebrows, she couldn't help but be frustrated. They were just about to make up and now they weren't again?

After Lucian left, Courtney walked up to Amelia and asked in confusion, "Why are you so stubborn? Lucian's been trying to repair your relationship and I think you're just being cruel to him."