Ch. 921..930
Loving You In Secret Chapter 921-However, these things are only the bare minimum for a club to have.
What really set this club apart was its famous auction.
The auction here was far different from the normal auctions outside.
Rumor had it the things bought in the auction here could not be brought out of the club.
However, due to the club being too exclusive Vicky had only heard about the auction; she never saw it personally.
Therefore, she had no way to verify the truth of it all.
Moreover, the club’s membership card was limited to only 1000 pieces.
It was so exclusive that it would take more than being rich to get into the club.
“Tonight, Dark Night Club will be celebrating its anniversary, and they’ve invited a lot of powerful and influential business tycoons to the city.Tyler will be there, too,” said the man.
He looked at her meaningfully before he added, “Lately, Tyler seems to have attended a lot of events, so I’m sure he’s no stranger to the club.”
The gold card was cold to the touch.
Vicky looked at the man’s clear and deep eyes, and her voice suddenly became raspy as she spoke, “Why are you telling me all this?”
“You’re a smart woman.I don’t want you to be kept in the dark forever.” Vicky smiled coldly.
“But you don’t seem like the kind who’d help others without getting some sort of payback.”
“Fine, I admit that I have some ulterior motives of my own.In fact…I hope that your relationship will blow up.”
“What do you want?”
“I want you to help me.” Vicky scoffed.
“You won’t even tell me your name yet want me to help you?”
“It’s not that I don’t want to tell you, it’s just that…If I tell you now, it’ll affect our relationship.Of course, you can choose not to believe and not to help me.I won’t force you or make things difficult for you.”
Vicky looked at him, her eyes suddenly filled with mixed emotions.
Then, she opened her mouth to ask, “Sir, do I know you…in the past?”
The man smiled lightly.
“I know you, but you don’t know me.Didn’t you regain your memory already? If you have, you must know very clearly that we haven’t met before.”
“Then why did you say that I’ll remember who you are once I’ve regained my memory?”
“I didn’t mean to lie to you.To be honest, Tyler and I are rivals,” said the man helplessly.
Then after a pause, he added, “I know the two of you had made up with each other.That was why I was going to refrain from contacting you.novelxo.com Of course, all of this is under the condition that your relationship with him stays that way so that I’ll have no chance to worm my way in.”
The man told Vicky the truth, not even bothering to hide his motives from her.
Then, he continued to say, “However, now that Tyler has given me an opening, I, of course, won’t hesitate to take the chance.”
Vicky’s eyelids twitched.
“Sir, are you the mysterious person who helped me out four years ago?” she asked, finally unable to hold back the question.
The man smiled lightly and asked calmly, “Does it really matter who I am?”
‘Does it? Yes and…no” thought Vicky.
She looked at the membership card in her hand and said softly, “Sir, I understand your reason for coming, but…What I want to say is, it doesn’t matter if you’re the mysterious person, and it doesn’t matter what Tyler has done.I’ll never betray him and help you.”
The man was not disappointed or shocked.
“You’ll want to see me again,” he said confidently.
At that moment, Cece knocked on the door and came in with some coffee.
Not long after that, Jennifer came in and passed a copy of the contract to the man.
The man flipped through the contract casually and said, “I’ll pay the amount in full, so there’s no need for me to sign this contract.What do you say?”
The purpose of having a contract was to bind both parties together, and this was the first time Jennifer came across a client who did not wish to sign one.
‘It should be fine if he doesn’t sign the contract since he’s paying in full, but..” thought Jennifer.
Then, she looked at Vicky with questioning eyes
Loving You In Secret Chapter 922-Vicky nodded lightly, and it was only then Jennifer dared to say, “Yes, that would be fine, sir.”
After the man swiped his card, Jennifer asked, “Sir, can you please leave your contact number?”
The man was silent for a few seconds before he recited a string of numbers.
Vicky’s eyes flashed.She did not recognize the phone number, so the man could not have been the mysterious person who helped her.
However, she did not know which number he used to contact her before since it always came up as ‘Unknown Number’ in the caller ID.
Therefore, even until this moment, she could not be sure whether the man sitting in front was the mysterious person or not.
The man bade them farewell after they closed the deal, and he had drunk some coffee.
Before he left, he said, “My old phone number has been traced, so just call this number if you need to contact me for anything in the future.”
Soon, Vicky got off work.She knew Tyler would not be home on this night since he had not come home for a few nights in a row, so she thought that she might as well treat Jennifer to a welcome-back-to-work dinner.
That was what a good employer would do after all.
However, not long after she stepped into the restaurant, she received a call from Noah.
They had not been in much contact with each other, but on the times they did, Noah’s attitude toward her was a bit evasive, and he rarely contacted her first.
Therefore, Vicky was a bit surprised that he would call her.
“Noah, why the sudden call? Is everything alright?”
Noah cleared his throat lightly and answered hesitantly, “Hey Vicky, umm…So I called you today to ask you something.”
“Yes? Go on.”
“Umm, well…min a bit of a situation.I don’t have a lot of female friends which I’m sure you know about, so I didn’t know who else to call but you.” novelxo.com Vicky became even more curious.
“Noah, what happened?”
“It’s like this…I have a female friend who has a good relationship with her husband and they’ve been living…ahem .-happily with each other.But a few days ago, I saw her husband with…another woman when I was at a party with my friends.”
Vicky immediately understood the dilemma he was in.
“And now you don’t know whether you should tell your friend?”
“Yeah…I mean, if I tell her, it’d seem like I was trying to break them up.On the other hand, I don’t want to keep my friend in the dark.So I wanted to ask you…Do you think I should tell her?”
“I think you should.”
“But what if…they decided to get a divorce because of what I said?”
“Even if they did, it’s not your fault.It just means their marriage was already on the rocks.”
Vicky’s voice softened as she continued, “Besides, this kind of secret will come out eventually.If your friend is the kind that’s willing to lie to herself, it doesn’t matter whether you tell her or not.
“If you think that telling her will affect your friendship with her, then…all I can say is, while it might be true your friendship will stay intact if you don’t tell her this time, there’s no guarantee that it’ll be the same next time something like this happens again.
“A true friendship isn’t something that can easily be destroyed by telling the truth.But if you’re just so-so friends with her and if you’re still feeling hesitant, you can tell her the truth in a roundabout way.”
Even after listening to Vicky’s advice, he struggled to come up with a decision.
“I’m not afraid that by telling the truth, it’ll affect our friendship, it’s just that…I don’t want to cross her husband ‘ cause I’m afraid he’ll take revenge on me.”
“If you don’t tell and your friend doesn’t tell, how in the world would the husband find out you were the one that snitched on him?”
“Her husband has a lot of connections.I won’t be surprised if he found out that I was the one who told my friend about him…” muttered Noah in a small voice.
Vicky did not quite catch what he said so she asked, “Noah, what did you say just now?”
“Nothing.” Noah snapped out of it and tried to cover it up.
“Umm…Like I said, I didn’t know who to ask so I asked you.You can forget all about it, okay?”
“No worries.This is no big deal.Glad to be of help.
Loving You In Secret Chapter 923-“If there’s nothing else, I’m going to hang up now,” said Vicky.
“Alright,” replied Noah.
After the call ended, Noah stared worriedly at his phone.
“Noah, you’ve been looking glum recently. Did something happen?” asked Ava.
Noah stared into the distance, shook his head, and sighed.
“I’m never going to believe in love again.”
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s just as I said.”
“But what you said is very common in today’s society.”
Ava did not know what the fuss was all about.
“I heard so many of the same things happening around me.”
“That’s where you’re wrong.He’s different from the people around you.”
“But if he’s different, why did he do the same thing?” retorted Ava.
Noah became stunned and speechless.
After a while, he finally said, “What you said seems to make sense…”
Ava became a little smug and started to philosophize, “
Some people might look different from the others on the surface, but deep down, they’re all the same.
Some people, like you said, are truly unique, but time can change a person. It’s normal for a truly unique person to become your average, ordinary person.”
“So change is the only constant in life, huh…” Noah muttered to himself.
“Of course.The times are advancing, and people are also changing.People or ideas that don’t change will become rigid, and they’ll become obsolete to society.Take us for example—it won’t do us any good if we follow the thinking of our ancestors from centuries ago, right?”
Noah did not say anything anymore.
Instead, he just stared into the distance, thinking.
After dinner, Jennifer wanted to go home earlier because she was exhausted from flying, so the three of them returned to their homes respectively.
Sitting in a taxi, the bustling city scenery outside the window flew before her eyes, leaving behind a blur of shadow and lights.
“Excuse me, sir. Can you please take me to Dark Night Club instead?” asked Vicky suddenly.
The driver was a little surprised, but he did as he was asked.
It was only when Vicky entered the club with the membership card did she snap out of her trance.
‘Am I really going…to do this? Does this mean I don’t trust my husband and I want to see for myself whether what that man is true? But even if it’s true..What can I do? thought Vicky and at that moment, she wanted nothing more than to back out of her plan.
“Miss?” called the puzzled waiter, who was leading the way and turned around, only to realize Vicky was not following him.
Vicky was pulled back from her thoughts.
‘What was I thinking? If it’s really true, I’ll have to face it sooner or later”
The membership card the man gave her was of the highest tier, which allowed her access to everything in the club.
Vicky was taken by the waiter to a spot that had an excellent view of the auction but gave her some privacy at the same time.
This night was the club’s anniversary celebration, and there would be a grand auction.
Vicky sat in her seat, curious to find out just exactly what kind of auction items the buyer could not take home with them.
Not long after Vicky took her seat, the auction officially started.It was not until then that she finally understood what the man meant
Loving You In Secret Chapter 924-To be precise, it was not that the buyer could not take the items with them but more like the buyer would not be able to own them forever.
After all, the auction was not selling products but services instead.
Vicky’s eyelids twitched when she saw all the handsome men and beautiful women on the stage while the auctioneer excitedly introduced each of them to potential buyers, “This beauty’s name is Seyna, and she’s from Torpis.Her unique massage techniques are one of the best you can find in this club…And now, let’s start the bid with a price of fifteen thousand dollars for a month of massage services!”
“This handsome guy is from Hatchland.He was one part of a well-known boy band, so I can guarantee you that his singing, rapping, and dancing skills are top-notch.Guests who love entertainment music can purchase one month of his time to sing and dance for you!”
“This beauty is from Zendonia.Not only is she beautiful, but she can also drink anyone under the table! Guests who want to have a girlfriend or need to entertain or get drunk easily must not miss bidding for her! The starting price is also fifteen thousand dollars, but you’ll only get twenty days of her time!”
The auction in the club was very special since it was only selling services.
In fact, one would be forgiven if one mistakenly thought it was a housekeeping company.However, one thing was for sure, the people on stage were much better looking than the employees in a housekeeping company.
All of the men and women were young and beautiful.
Some were tutors, those who could teach musical instruments, and those who could provide cooking services.
As long as one had the money, they could hire anyone there to be their servant.
“Here, we only auction legitimate services, and we’ll never do anything beyond the scope of services.novelxo.com We will pursue legal actions if any of the guests request our staff to do anything that goes beyond the scope of services they had purchased,” the auctioneer stated.
It all sounded very proper, but what if it was the staff who willingly offered to do something ‘beyond the scope of services’? How could anyone prevent that from happening? As time passed and toward the end of the auction, the time of service offered became shorter while the price became higher.
Correspondingly, the men and women on the stage became more attractive, and even their talents and education left Vicky awed.
It was only then Vicky realized that the auction was just a front for a game the rich liked to play.
Just when she was mulling over this thought, a melodious voice twinkling like a star rang across the dark room.
“One hundred fifty thousand dollars.”
Vicky did a double take and looked in the direction where the voice came from.However, the light was too dim and the room was designed to give the patrons the utmost privacy, so she could not see who the voice belonged to.
‘That voice sounds so familiar…In fact, I can pick out who the voice belongs to even with my eyes closed” thought Vicky.
Suddenly, she felt a chill up her spine.
“Three hundred thousand dollars,” came another deep voice.
Vicky frowned and looked in the other direction.
‘He’s here too…?’ “Seven hundred fifty thousand dollars,” said the first man— who happened to be Tyler—calmly and authoritatively.
Vicky had zoned out, and it was not until Tyler called out the previous bid did she come back to reality.
Therefore, she did not hear the introduction of the beautiful woman on stage.
Someone chuckled and shouted, “One and a half million dollars!”
The bid caused an uproar among the guests.
“Wow, someone with very deep pockets must be here tonight.I think the service that beauty provides is worth at most a hundred fifty thousand dollars, so I can’t believe that someone would be willing to pay a million five hundred thousand dollars.”
“The auctioneer said that the woman on stage can play cards for twenty-four hours straight and that she can win at any card game.
Even if someone wants to win against the casino or win some popularity, a million five hundred thousand dollars is just too high of a price to pay!”
“You’re crazy if you think that the person who called out the bids is going to use this woman to win against the casino.Don’t you know who those two voices belong to?
Loving You In Secret Chapter 925-"Who do the voices belong to?' "One of the voices belongs to Tyler Hart. Do you truly think he's so poor that he needs to make money off the casino? This auction is nothing but a game of who's the most audacious for the rich."
"Wow, so Tyler Hart is here, too? What about the other person? I wonder where he got the courage to bid against Tyler."
"The other person... Well, I heard that he's been bidding against Tyler for a few nights in a row. However, it's a pity ' cause he can’t win against Tyler; not when he's in Tyler's territory."
The auction lot closed while everyone discussed the sky- high price. Just like that, 'the-woman-who-can-win-in-any- card-game' was sold off at 1.5 million dollars.
A series of awed gasps went around the room; even Vicky thought it was ridiculous that her husband paid so much for a woman who could 'win in any card game'.
'Even if that woman is made out of gold, she still won't be worth a million five hundred thousand dollars,' thought Vicky. However, she did not stop Tyler from doing so. In fact, she found the whole thing so ridiculous that she started to see the funny side of it.
After a while, the waiter walked over to Tyler's seat. In the dim light, the waiter took the bank card from Tyler's hand and walked away with a smile on his face. About ten minutes later, the waiter respectfully returned the card to Tyler, and the latter got up and left the room through a passage specially reserved for the club's VIP members to use.
'Is he going to check out what he bought?' Vicky wondered.
'The-woman-who-can-win-in-any-card-game' was the last of the auction lot, and for the rest of the night, the club put on various performances.
Vicky glanced at the direction of the VIP passage then got up and left quietly. Her membership card was of the highest VIP tier, so she was also allowed to use the passage.
However, after walking through the resplendent corridor and entering the lobby, she realized that there was no one there at all. She looked around, wanting to find Tyler, when she suddenly paused in front of a room.
The door to that room was slightly ajar, and Vicky heard a familiar voice coming from inside.
"Tyler, what on earth do you think you're doing? Does Vicky know that you're messing around outside?"
"Mister Sparks, don't you think you should mind your business instead of mine?" replied Tyler quickly in his deep voice.
"Tyler, if you don't love Vicky, you should stop wasting her time and let her-"
"Let her go?" interjected Tyler. "So that the two of you can rekindle your relationship? Is that what you want?"
Harvey's eyes darkened. "Well, you should treat her better if you're not going to let her go. In fact, you shouldn't do anything that can disappoint her."
"Our marriage has nothing to do with you," said Tyler coldly.
"Tyler, you don't want to let her go nor do you want to treat her better, so what exactly do you want?"
"Harvey." Tyler's tone became colder. "What right do you have to say all this to me? Is it because you used to be her ex-boyfriend or ex-fiance?"
"That's all in the past."
Tyler smiled faintly at him. "Your time is over. You can win against me at all and Gloria has already left Stoneford City, so tell me... What are you still doing here?"
Harvey's eyes darkened, and he remained silent.
"Vicky is my woman. Even if I don't want her anymore, you still have no right to be with her," said Tyler lightly.
"Tyler, you can stop all this bullsh*t with me. Just answer me this: do you still love her?" asked Harvey coldly.
Loving You In Secret Chapter 926-Tyler scoffed and said, "Why should I answer you that?" "Tyler, do you know all the things you've done recently have crossed the line?"
"All the things I've done recently?" Something flashed across Tyler's eyes. "What did I do?"
"Just how many women have you been with during this period?"
"How can I be in the wrong when those women willingly throw themselves at me?" asked Tyler coldly. "Harvey, you must know what that's like since I'm sure many women willingly throw themselves at you, too."
Harvey scoffed and said, "Don't tell me you did nothing more than that with the women who did that to you. From what I've heard, those powerful people who wanted to curry favors from you also sent you some women which you didn't refuse."
Tyler raised an eyebrow. "What? Don't tell me you've never accepted those kinds of women before."
It was a given that turning down a woman from 'friends' in business was as good as giving them a snub. All that mattered in a man's world were money, power, and beautiful women. Therefore, Harvey had been gifted women before but he usually turned them down since he was not interested in this kind of woman.
However, the 'friends' in business who sent him the women did not accept his refusal. They just thought that he did not like the types of women they sent him, so the next time, they would send a new type of woman to him.
This annoyed Harvey to no end, so he would sometimes grudgingly accept a woman just so those 'friends' in business would stop sending the women over. However, he never touched the woman he accepted since he saw them as nothing but a cover for him.
"That's different. You're already married, so you can only turn down the women even if it's going to cause you trouble later," said Harvey coldly.
"Well, I never heard that rule before," said Tyler with a smile.
"Tyler, aren't you afraid that Vicky will be sad if she finds out about this?"
"You not wanting her to be sad is all the more reason you should just keep your mouth shut."
Harvey's eyes darkened when he saw how nonchalant Tyler behaved.
"I won't tell her about what happened recently, but don't blame me for taking her away from you if you do anything to make her sad again."
"Are you going to advise her to get a divorce from me, or are you going to publicly abduct her?" Tyler raised his eyes to look at him. "Harvey Sparks, as long as I don’t agree to the divorce, Vicky will be forever married to me, and she'll never be yours."
Harvey frowned. He was about to say something when the door swung open.
"So when you said you want to start over with me again, I should take it to mean that you'd be drinking in clubs all the time and leaving me all alone in the house?"
Harvey's head snapped as he turned, and the look in his eyes changed when he saw Vicky standing by the door.
"Vicky, what are you doing here?"
"I came here to see for myself what's all the fuss about the legendary auction, of course. I couldn't help but wonder who it was that spent a record-breaking a-million-five-hundred- thousand dollars on one auction."
Her eyes never once left Tyler, even when she answered Harvey's questions.
Tyler's eyes darkened momentarily, and they quickly returned to calm. His eyes were like a cold spring-distant and composed. He stared back at her, unblinkingly and silently.
Harvey walked over to stand beside Vicky, but just when he was about to say something, Vicky stopped him with a raise of her hand.
She looked deeply into Tyler's eyes and asked, "Tyler, don't you have anything you want to say to me?"
Tyler's eyes flashed, but after a few seconds of silence, he finally said, "Harvey, would you mind stepping out for a moment?"
Harvey frowned and was about to say he wanted to stay in the room when Vicky beat him to it. "Harvey, please do as he says since this matter is only between me and him."
Harvey took one look at her before leaving the room and closing the door tightly behind me. After he left, the tension in the room became so thick that one could cut it with a knife.
Loving You In Secret Chapter 927-"Now can we talk?" Vicky asked.
"What do you want to know?"
Vicky found his question so ridiculous that she suddenly burst out laughing. "Do you seriously need to ask me that, Tyler?"
"Well, how will I ever know what answers you're looking for if you don't ask the questions?"
"Don't tell me you think you're the innocent party in this matter."
"If you're referring to all the women in here, well, all I can say is this is just a necessary part of doing business. I haven't done anything with those women."
"Just a necessary part of doing business?" Vicky scoffed, and her gaze turned cold. "Is throwing around a million fifty thousand dollars a necessary part of doing business as well? Don’t you think that's going a little bit overboard?"
Tyler leaned against the sofa and crossed his legs elegantly and casually." Do you know who owns this club?"
Vicky was a little taken aback, but she immediately understood what he meant.
"Tell me... Why are you doing this, then?"
"Well for one, it's because of Harvey... And the other is because..." He looked at Vicky and continued, "I'm getting annoyed at all those people sending me women, so I thought it would save me all the trouble if I just choose a woman in front of them. At least that way I can have some peace. ■
'So what you're saying is...the work you've been busy doing is just you spending time with all these different women every night?"
Tyler did not like Vicky's tone and attitude. "As I've mentioned, all this is just a necessary part of doing business."
Vicky then recalled her previous conversation with Noah. At that time, she did get a certain feeling that something was off about what he said, but she did not give it much thought.
However, it suddenly hit her that it would be normal for Noah to know what Tyler had been doing since they both revolved in the same business circle. The friend he was talking about was her! He was hesitating whether to tell her or not because he was afraid that Tyler would take revenge on him, so he had no choice but to do it in a roundabout way.
'Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that the same thing will be happening in the future as well?"
"Yes."
Vicky did not know what Noah saw nor did she know what Harvey found out. However, Vicky was sure that Tyler had done something he should not have done for both Noah and Harvey to say that he had crossed the line.
It took Vicky a long while to find her voice again.
"I understand that it's part of your job to build relationships with the other business tycoons, but I'll never forgive you if you cheat on me."
Tyler looked at her and said, "I told you, I've never done anything with those women."
Vicky clenched her fists. "It's not enough that you've never done anything with them. Tyler, you're already married, so you should keep your distance from other women. Do you understand?"
Tyler remained indifferent to her.
'I'm going to say this one last time, I've never done anything with those women. The reason I called out such a high price is because Harvey wouldn't stop bidding against me."
"But I remember you were the one who called out the bid first."
"Are you trying to say that I'm interested in the woman I bade for?" Tyler looked at her. "Vicky Shaw, I'm one of the shareholders in this club. I'm just trying to help the business by driving the prices up. You should know how it works since you're in the service industry as well."
'What if I say I don't like you doing this?"
"Vicky, I've been doing this in all the four years we've been married." Then, Tyler suddenly remembered something. He paused and stared at her with his deep, dark eyes. "That's right. I've forgotten you don’t have any memory of what happened in the past."
Loving You In Secret Chapter 928-'The past...' Vicky zoned out for a moment.
Vicky and Tyler had a tumultuous marriage in the past. He rarely came home at night, and this gave rise to the countless scandals he had with other women.
At the beginning of the marriage, he would either come home drunk or smelling of other women's perfume. Vicky even questioned him about the scandals he had with other women, but he shot her down by saying, "You chose this life, so you have no right to question me, Vicky Shaw."
What he said was true. She was the one who broke up with him, and she was also the one who forced him to marry her.
She spent the first year of her marriage being heartbroken and sad everyday. Later, she gradually became numb. She stopped caring about all scandals, and she also stopped looking into whether Tyler cheated on her with the women he was reportedly involved with.
Instead, she turned all of her attention to her job. The best thing for her to do was to treat each other like roommates, she thought. However, after the car accident, she started to have hope things would turn for the better since his attitude toward her gradually changed.
Vicky's eyes became teary, and her voice shook when she asked, "Tyler, didn't you say that you wanted to start over with me and that you want to make the marriage work? Did you change your mind, or did you not mean what you said at all?"
"I didn’t change my mind and I meant every word I said to you, but it doesn't mean that you can restrict what I can and cannot do without any good reason."
"Without any good reason?" repeated Vicky in shock. "Don't tell me...you think I'm being unreasonable right now."
"Well, aren't you?"
"How am I being unreasonable when I'm just asking you to keep your distance from those women?"
Tyler's face darkened, and his voice turned cold. "Vicky, I've told you a thousand times, so don't make me repeat myself."
It never crossed Vicky's mind that the two of them would argue because of some random woman.
"Then tell me: what are you going to do from now on?"
"I should be the one asking you that."
At that moment, Vicky could not help but feel immensely disappointed in Tyler.
"What if I say I want you to give up doing this necessary part of business?"
Tyler looked at her and said, "So you're saying that you don't want me to attend any more business events?"
"No... That's not what I meant..."
"Vicky, you should know very well that this kind of situation is part and parcel of doing business. Besides, my conscience is clear," Tyler said coolly and calmly.
At that moment, Vicky suddenly felt like Tyler was nothing but a stranger to her.
"Tyler, do you still love me?" she blurted out without thinking.
Time seemed to have become frozen as soon as the question came out.
Vicky waited a long while for him to answer but he never did, and this made her heart cold.
"You...don't love me anymore, do you?"
After another few seconds of silence, Tyler finally answered, "Vicky, you shouldn't be so greedy."
Vicky was stunned, and her breathing became erratic.
"Greedy? Are you seriously calling me greedy? How can you call me greedy when I'm just asking my husband for some love?" she asked.
Tyler's eyes became cold and distant.
"I've done everything as a husband should do. I even cut off contact with the woman you didn't like, just as you asked me to do. Why are you still not content?"
Vicky understood him to mean that as a man, he could keep a distance from his so-called 'female bosom friend'.
Loving You In Secret Chapter 929-As Vicky's husband, Tyler could even protect and seek justice from those friends and families who wished to hurt her. He had done enough for Vicky, and she should not ask anything more from him.
Vicky stared unblinkingly at him and asked, "What if I insist on being greedy?"
After a few seconds of silence, he replied, "I think we should have a break to give each other some time to cool off."
"What do you mean by that?"
"You're overly emotional and not thinking straight right now." Tyler stood up, and his large frame suddenly made the room smaller. "Either that, or someone is deliberately trying to drive a wedge between us. That might explain your change in attitude toward me."
Vicky's eyes became watery. "What if I never change my mind about this matter?"
He looked down at her and said, "What if I ask you to give up your job so that you can be with me every hour of the day? Would you be able to do that?"
"What are you trying to say?"
Tyler's handsome face became blurry in Vicky's tear-filled pupils.
"I'm saying there's no point for us to stay married if we have different values."
"What?" Vicky thought she had heard wrong.
She could count on one hand the number of times Tyler was the first to bring up the topic of divorce. She knew that he was determined to stay married to her, just like he was determined to not break up with her in the past.
That was his stance all along to the extent that Vicky absurdly thought that he would never divorce her. In fact, he -just like everyone else-would get upset whenever the word 'divorce' was brought up, so much so that Vicky had come to think that the word 'divorce' was taboo in the household.
However, the Tyler who stood in front of her threw out the word 'divorce' like it was nothing at all. Therefore, it was understandable for her to think she had heard wrong when he said there was no point in them staying married.
Tyler did not repeat what he said but instead said, "I won't be going home for the foreseeable future, so you can take the time to think about what you want to do. I still have some matters to attend to, so I'll leave now. You can call me anytime you run into some trouble you can't solve yourself."
Hethen left the room.
Vicky immediately collapsed to the sofa; she did not even have the energy to cry. After a while, the door swung open and a shadow fell over her.
Vicky thought that Tyler had come back, and she instinctively looked up. However, her face fell and her eyes
teemed with disappointment as soon as she took a good look at the person who came in.
"Vicky, are you okay?" Harve asked softly.
No tears rolled down her cheek, but her face was as pale as snow. She did not answer his question but instead asked," When did you know about all this?"
"Just recently," said Harvey, not giving her a specific answer.
"That could be a week ago or a month ago. So which is it?"
Harvey knew he could not just gloss over his answer so he decided to tell the truth. "Less than a month ago."
"That's long..."
Harvey might not like Tyler, but what he disliked even more was seeing Vicky sad, so he said, "Vicky, the reason Tyler paid such a high price for that woman is that he wanted to put me in my place."
"I know, and I also know he's one of the shareholders of this club," said Vicky as though she anticipated what he wanted to say next.
She looked into Harvey's worried eyes and added, "But you think he went a little overboard too, right?"
Harvey did not say anything. He could not and would not lie just to make her feel better.
Loving You In Secret Chapter 930-"Is he always surrounded by beautiful women? Does he have a different woman in his arms every night?"
"Vicky, it's not as bad as you think."
"No, you don't have to say anything for me to know how it is. " Vicky looked up at Harvey. "Have you forgotten that I've regained my memory? I know better than you what he was like before."
’He never changed. It was me who changed all along,’ thought Vicky.
It was just as Tyler said, compared to when they first got married and all the time they had been married up to now, he had done a lot for her.
She was the one who started to have hope for him, and she was also the one that started to ask him for more than he was prepared to give. She thought that he loved her, and why would she not when he showed her nothing but care and tenderness lately?
It was only at that moment she realized just how wrong she was to think that, but even so, she could not believe that he would bring up divorce. The last time he brought up the matter of d ivorce with her was when he mistakenly thought she was the one who pushed him into a relationship with Gloria.
However, he never once mentioned the word 'divorce' again after all the misunderstanding had cleared up. He even got his revenge by playing a vicious trick on her.
"Is it because you men like the challenge of a hunt and will become bored once you get the woman?" She fixed her gaze on Harvey in a bid to get an answer from his expression.
"Take you and Gloria for example. All through these years, you'll drop everything to help her because she never accepted you, and that made you want to try again and again."
"Vicky... Gloria and I... It's not what you think."
"You're right. That's just one of the many things that I get wrong."
Harvey did not know how to console her, so he tried to change the topic, "Vicky, it's getting late. Let me give you a ride home."
Tyler was true to his words. He did not come home that night.
There was no light in the mansion when Vicky arrived home. Even though she was prepared to come home to an empty house, she could not help but feel disappointed. She did not know where she went wrong, so she tried to think back to what she could have possibly done to upset Tyler.
Otherwise, what else would explain his sudden change in attitude toward her?
Suddenly, Vicky remembered something. 'Is it really that sudden? No... Harvey said he found out what Tyler has been doing less than a month ago, and that coincides with the time I was busy with work.'
During that period, he went from picking her up from work every day to not coming home for dinner every night. Then, it ended up with him not coming home for three to five days in a row.
Tyler's attitude did change toward her, but it was not by much. Although he was not as clingy as before, he was also not as cold as he was at the start of their marriage. At the very least, he would always pick up her call when he was not in the middle of something, and if he was, he would always reply her as soon as he was free.
He would even call her or text her in advance to let her know if he was not coming home for dinner or coming home to sleep that night.