Nothing Matters, except YOU & Me novel Chapter 669

The encounter did not transpire as per Leon’s expectations and he was quite disappointed as a result. Nonetheless, he realized that disappointment was a common thing one encountered in life, so he didn’t remain dejected for long.

Zayne had noticed everything and stared at Leon for some time before he spoke, “Perhaps it’s because I haven’t had to personally deal with many cases over the years.”

Leon couldn’t help but curve his lips into a smile as soon as he heard Zayne’s reply. After all, he had grasped Zayne’s dark sense of humor.

“I think so too.” The topic had ended with Zayne’s answer. Leon didn’t continue to pursue the matter as he felt that he should respect Zayne’s privacy. Zayne’s private life had nothing to do with him anyway.

Both of them busied themselves with their own tasks tacitly while Heather remained outside the room. She stared at the tightly shut door with a look of realization, Looks like it was a good idea to bring Leon with me. I should have known that it would be perfect to get them to work together!

Leon’s outstanding computing skills are exactly what Zayne needs! She smiled self-mockingly. How could I have overlooked something so simple?! I don’t even know what’s going on with me lately! Most people reckoned that someone in love would usually end up behaving in a foolish manner. With that in mind, she asked herself, Is it actually because of my relationship?!

Heather’s attention was suddenly disrupted by the soft sound of her cell phone ringing. The sound was an indication that she had received a notification on Messenger and it was only yesterday that she’d intentionally chosen this ringtone.

She thought that it would be Matthias on the other end, but as soon as she clicked into Messenger, surprisingly, it was the strange old man who had contacted her before.

‘Miss, have you resolved that frustrating incident you had?’ For some reason, she was slightly annoyed by that man’s blunt question.

She didn’t like someone taking such a close interest in her personal life and even felt that there was something odd with him. However, she couldn’t quite decipher his true identity at the moment.

‘Why are you so concerned about my personal matters?’ Heather replied in a rude manner. He was the one who spoke bluntly first!

Meanwhile, he wrote almost instantaneously, ‘It’s because you’re the new owner of the wooden sword that I treasure the most. That’s why I feel like I’m obliged to help you endure your difficult moments.’

Heather could catch a hint of pity from his voice, which triggered her even further. I don’t need pity or compassion! No one has the right to treat me like that!

‘Difficult moments?! Perhaps I have a different comprehension of the situation then. I don’t think that I’m going through a difficult life at the moment!’ She couldn’t control her annoyance toward this con artist whom she reckoned was just trying hard to gain recognition.

She was prepared to delete his contact right there and her tone of voice turned quite cold with a hint of anger when the other party replied calmly, ‘Do you believe in fate?’

While staring at the old man’s message, Heather couldn’t help but think, This is dumb! It’s as if he’s asking whether I know the company Amway?! Obviously, yes!

She vehemently refused to answer such a pointless question and reckoned that it made more sense to block this person’s contact. Somehow, she didn’t even know why but she’d approved this stranger’s contact because of the wooden sword.

However, Heather now reckoned that she should delete him from her contact list. As she was careful with maintaining her privacy, she disliked having strangers on her Messenger.

Before she could even do so, he quickly sent another message. ‘Your best friend is currently experiencing an ordeal, but you can only watch as she suffers. This feeling of yours has completely destroyed all the self-confidence you once had.’ He mentioned this sagely, which stopped her in her action of blocking him.

‘Best friend’. Heather stared at those two words and she suddenly felt an unexplainable sense of fear. He must be quite a character!

She was about to inform Zayne about this, but before she did so, she quickly replied, ‘Why are you saying this to me?’ She had tried writing inconspicuously to prevent the recipient from realizing the issue with her words. Now, she was full of curiosity as she realized that it was something that could no longer be justified as sixth sense.

After Heather had knocked on the door, Zayne opened the door from the inside within seconds. In the room, Leon’s eyes were fixated on the computer screen as his fingers whizzed deftly on the keyboard.

She was about to say something when Zayne placed a finger on his lips to signal for her to remain silent as he shook his head at her. He indicated for her to talk outside the room.

Both of them walked out of the room one after the other and left Leon, who was currently focused on his work, in peace. Meanwhile, Zayne crossed his arms in front of him and stared at Heather; he was quite confused at her sudden disruption of his work.

“Heather, do you have a question you want to ask?” He noticed that she seemed to be lost and he was quite keen to know what was troubling her.

In response, she gave him a rather forced smile. “Do you believe in Metaphysics?” She used to scoff at Metaphysics and he was clearly aware of that, which was why he found it strange for her to suddenly ask about this.

“Metaphysics? I’m half-convinced.” Zayne generally maintained an idle observing attitude toward Metaphysics; he had never personally experienced it, so he couldn’t confidently state its non-existence.

“Forget about it. I believe he must have some ulterior motive, but let’s just wait and see since I can’t seem to figure out what’s behind his back right now.” She decided against deleting the person’s contact.

He suddenly jeered, “Are you sure you’re not going to delete this person’s contact?” He was keen to do it on her behalf and remove this person who spouted endless nonsense.

“No, it’s actually quite interesting.” She revealed a relaxed smile as she pretended that nothing had happened since she didn’t want to disrupt the initially comfortable atmosphere.

Heather then took her phone from Zayne and deleted the entire conversation she had with that man. Out of sight, out of mind! She didn’t want to continue the topic with that person because she was quite sure that she wouldn’t be able to stop herself from deleting him or blocking him otherwise.

Meanwhile, Zayne had no idea what was on her mind. Actually, he realized that she was no longer the same Heather he remembered from their reencounter.

Not only did Leon feel that her emotional intelligence had significantly decreased, even Zayne reckoned that she’d flushed her brains down the drain. Overall, she seemed to behave in a stranger manner; she was no longer a force to reckon with in the corporate world.

“You should continue with your work. I want to know the person’s identity by tonight!” It was something that she insisted since it sounded like she would not head to sleep until he deciphered that person’s identity.

“Hey, I could also find out the identity of that old man while I’m doing this!” Zayne willingly volunteered for the job.

“That would be great!” A pleased Heather smiled at him. In fact, she had the exact same notion in her mind, so it was just perfect that he’d volunteered for it.

“Hand me your phone. I need to take a look at his details.” He turned to her.

“Sure.” She handed over her phone and noticed that he suddenly smiled at such an odd interval.

At that moment, Zayne had her phone in his hands and it wasn’t long before he walked off into the room with the item. Then, the door slammed shut.

Suddenly, Heather slightly regretted her decision. I can’t believe I handed Zayne my phone?! Why does everything seem so surreal?!