Never Mistake a Queen for a Lapdog novel Chapter 736

Perhaps this was fate. Just like that phone call on the night of the thank-you banquet all those years ago. A missed connection meant it wasn't meant to be.

Noreen sighed softly and was about to put her phone away when it rang again.

It was Seth, calling her back.

This time, Noreen was caught off guard. She hadn't expected him to call back so quickly; he must have hit redial the second the call dropped.

She answered but didn’t know what to say. The man on the other end was silent too. His heavy breathing, uneven and rushed, traveled through the receiver.

“Let’s meet,” Noreen finally said, breaking the silence.

A couple of seconds passed before Seth replied, “Okay.” Then he asked, “Where?”

“I’m outside your house. Just come out.”

Seth’s grip on his phone tightened. The line was already dead.

He came out wearing only a dress shirt. He didn’t even think to go back for a jacket as he pushed open the courtyard gate and walked out.

Noreen was standing about fifty yards from the gate, under a streetlight. The warm, yellow glow stretched her shadow long across the pavement.

Seth stopped five yards away from her. The entire scene felt as unreal as a dream. He had never imagined a day like this would come, a day he could stand before her in the open. After their parting five years ago, he had thought there would be no future for them.

Their eyes met. Neither of them spoke.

In her eyes, Seth saw only one thing: peace. The kind of profound tranquility that comes after enduring too much.

It was Noreen who finally broke the silence.

Her voice was cold in the wind.

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