Love Strategy: CEO He is Really Scheming！

Arlo Seys wiped Jorge Saxton’s body as he walked past. "If anything goes wrong at Nicole’s engagement party, Jorge Saxton, I’ll make sure we settle this score properly!"

"Brother-in-law, don’t be so heartless. You really should adjust your attitude toward your dear brother-in-law, don’t you think?" Jorge Saxton caught up with Arlo’s steps, smiling with extreme elegance.

Arlo swept a cold glance at Jorge, his tone cool. "I think the female lead of Fallen City 2 can be replaced. What do you think?"

"...Arlo Seys!"

Could he just for once not use Lydia to threaten him!!

The only answer Jorge got was Arlo’s tall, indifferent back, not even sparing him a look as he strode straight back toward the engagement banquet on his long legs.

Nicole and Callan Walkers hurried back to the engagement party, and after asking Ariel Morris, they finally found Steven Cooper standing by the window in the hotel’s lounge.

Nicole hesitated for a moment before walking over softly, calling in a low voice, "Brother Cooper."

Steven turned, meeting Nicole’s uneasy gaze. He smiled quietly, and his eyes suddenly lit up like starlight bursting open, full of life. "You’re back."

He’d received the note passed on to him by her sister-in-law and had been silently hoping she’d return. He was actually nervous and afraid too—afraid she wouldn’t come back to get engaged to him. So he just stayed quiet, spending the whole night waiting in anxious fear.

Fortunately, he finally waited her back.

Nicole felt a bit guilty. "I’m sorry, I came back late. I was dealing with something in the Restricted District."

Nicole didn’t hide anything from Steven and told him exactly where she had gone. Since she’d chosen to get engaged to Steven, she wanted the two of them to be honest with each other and quietly spend a lifetime together, hand in hand.

Steven was very good, a man worthy of entrusting her whole life to.

Steven smiled softly, looking at Nicole with gentle eyes as he reached his hand out to her. His voice was warm and mellow. "Now that things are settled, Miss Seys, are you still willing to get engaged to me?"

Nicole lowered her eyes, her gaze rippling for a moment. In her mind flashed back to the first time Jose Floyd had met her—he had also reached his hand out to her like this.

"Aunt Olivia Summer called and said... it’s because they suddenly found out Andrea Greenwood was pregnant, so Jose Floyd’s engagement party was put together in a hurry."

Ariel’s words exploded in her ears. Nicole’s heart trembled a little. Gently, slowly, she stretched out her hand, her fair, slender fingers reaching toward Steven.

The man whose hand had once loosely held hers, the man who once took the initiative to reach out to her and domineeringly told her, "This life, you can only be my woman," was now engaged.

His fiancée was even carrying his child—

Nicole, you weren’t the only one playing along for five years. That man named Jose Floyd was too. You were just something he needed in his bed, a necessity with no right to bear his child!

And now, neither of you belongs to the other anymore. Each living well on your own is the best choice.

Nicole pressed her lips together, looking at Steven. Her tone was light, but her eyes were firm. "Brother Cooper, maybe I still can’t forget that past for now, but I’ll do everything I can to forget it, to be a good fiancée to you, a good wife to you in the future. Believe me, I’ve never thought of you as a backup, but I really might need some time. Are you willing to wait while I forget, bit by bit?"

Steven nodded with a gentle smile. "The one thing I’m not short of is time I can spend on you. Will a lifetime be enough? I’ll use a whole lifetime to wait for you to forget the past, to wait until you turn your head and look at me by your side."

Nicole could feel how warm the hand holding her fingers was. She smiled faintly. "It won’t take a lifetime, because I’ll try my best, give it everything I have to forget, to forget in the shortest, fastest time I can."