Chapter 1325:

Back then, he never imagined she would become someone he couldn’t picture his life without.

A soft murmur rippled through the floor as he disappeared into his office.

“Did you see Mr. Elliott? He’s in a surprisingly good mood today.”

“Something must be up.”

“Maybe the wedding has him walking on air.”

Meanwhile, on the first floor, Darden struggled to balance armfuls of luxury shopping bags.

He scrolled through his messages and saw two cheeky memes from someone saved as “Runaway Canary.”

One was a thank-you. The other told him to get lost.

A crooked smile tugged at Darden’s mouth.

He nearly tossed the bags to the floor in frustration.

“She’s impossible,” he muttered.

There had been a time when she lit up at the sound of his voice, begging for gifts and filling his ears with sweet talk. Now, the only way to see her was to show up at her job in the mall. And if he showed up without buying anything, she acted like he didn’t exist.

“Let’s keep things professional.” That had become her favorite phrase.

But after clocking out, she always found a reason to avoid him. His patience was wearing thin.

He stormed past Elliott Group’s front entrance, still firing off angry voice messages into his phone.

Every window, every pillar was plastered with wedding banners and portraits of Myron and Millie.

As he passed by, a stranger pressed a wedding flyer into his hand.

Staring at the beaming faces of Millie and Myron on the paper, his mind drifted straight to Brandon.

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“I wonder if Brandon’s holding up… or if he’s already losing it,” Darden murmured.

Meanwhile, the man in question sat alone in his office, Vivian’s phone within arm’s reach.

Macauley’s silence dragged on, even though they had already agreed on an exchange.

Brandon’s team was already in place, waiting for his word to move.

Then, out of nowhere, something in the sky caught his attention. Brandon glanced up and saw a blimp-shaped balloon drifting lazily across the city.

All day, those floating ads filled the skyline, and now this one announced the wedding countdown for Millie and Myron.

For a long moment, Brandon watched the balloon drift away. Then his attention slid back to the phone.

He couldn’t afford to wait any longer.

He refused to sit by while she married Myron.

Millie belonged with him, and he would do whatever it took to make that happen.

Time drifted quietly into a new day.

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