Unbelievable
"I don't believe it." Aiden repeated the words under his breath, but no amount of denial seemed to strip the truth from the evidence in front of him. The report was clear: Serena had met with Sidney last night, accompanied by none other than a certain foreign investor.
"Are you sure the waiter understood correctly?" he pressed, grasping for any shred of doubt. "Couldn't he have been mistaken?"
"No, sir. The investor explicitly stated that the two people dining together appeared to be a couple. And when he mentioned this, neither Miss Serena nor Mr. Sidney corrected his assumption. Later, even after Mr. Ji had left, they lingered there together, ordering dessert as if they had nowhere else to be."
It was then, the waiter reported, that he overheard Sidney saying that if Serena wanted to preserve her legacy, she would have to give up on you."
"And what did she say to that?"