Mr. CEO, You're Just A Substitute

Chapter 143 There Was No Turning Back

It's a two-hour flight from Finas City to Araria City, so it was 12'o clock at noon when the plane landed.

Starry looked pale when she woke up during the trip.

Wyatt turned to her and asked, "You didn't sleep well last night either?"

"No."

With that she squinted her eyes out of the window.

It was a clear sunny day in Araria City.

Starry was soberer as her eyes were stung by the sunshine.

She took out her phone and turned it on, texting Izabella.

Izabella called her soon after the message had been sent. "Starry, are you back?"

Starry smiled and nodded. "Yeah, I just got off the plane."

"Should I come over to pick you up?"

Starry took a look at Wyatt. "No, thanks. I'm here with my friend."

"Wyatt Matthews?"

The pictures were all over the Internet, so Izabella made that guess.

"Yes, it's him."

Starry didn't deny. Izabella hesitated for a while and asked, "Starry, are you seeing him?"

"No."

"Oh, OK, I'm just asking."

"Well, then I will talk to you later. I have to get my luggage."

"Sure, go."

After hanging up on her, Starry turned to Wyatt and asked, "What's up?"

He seemed to have said something to her when she was speaking to Izabella.

Wyatt gave her a smile and said, "Nothing. I just told you to look out."

"Thanks. I am."

"OK."

Wyatt raised his eyebrow as looked toward the direction where Filip had disappeared.

He had lied to Starry, but it was no big deal.

Two marched to the baggage reclaim. Just when Starry found her suitcase, Wyatt helped her take it off

from the conveyor belt.

"Thanks."

Wyatt tutted, too tired to argue with her over the formality anymore.

Starry ran into Filip at the exit and gave him a indifferent glance.

Wyatt watched them aside. He lifted his eyebrow, without reminding her to say hi.

Filip glanced at her too, as if she had been some stranger.

Austin watched Starry and his boss, thinking that it was going to be another cloudy day.

Wyatt's car was parked at the airport, which he had drove there when he had gone to Finas City.

Filip got on his car when he was out of the airport, watching the man and the woman walking to the

parking lot from the opposite direction in the rear mirror.

After two seconds, he turned his eyes away with cold look on his face.

Austin turned around with a bottle of water. "Here, Mr. Pearson."

"I don't need that."

The man leaned against the seat, with his eyes slightly open.

Austin took away the water and felt timid to say anything else.

As what they say, it never rains, but it pours. Austin was surprised how unlucky he could get.

It's bad enough to ran into Starry at the airport, to make things worse, they saw her and Wyatt again at

the Dapper Star.

He felt a pang of remorse for choosing the Dapper Star over Flamewarden Hall, creating another

chance for Filip to meet Starry.

The encounter this time was more direct than the one at the airport, with each entering from the left and

the right respectively.

Starry and Filip were only half a meter away from each other.

The two who knew each other didn't seem to see the other within such close distance.

Wyatt looked at Filip, and when he looked him back, Wyatt faced him with grace and smiled, "Hi, Mr.

Pearson."

Filip nodded at him with a subtle look in his eyes. "Hi, Mr. Mathews."

Filip glanced at Starry from the corner of his eyes, darting at her eyes in a very subtle way.

Starry nodded at Austin, without ever resting her eyes on Filip.

"We're going for lunch now. See you around."

After that, Wyatt turned to Starry. "Let's go."

Starry nodded and followed him up the stairs.

The two were one stair away from each other, but they looked very close in other people's eyes.

Austin watched Wyatt and Starry going upstairs and then took a look at Filip before turning away his

eyes and stepping back unconsciously as he saw the look on his face, trying to erase his presence.

Wyatt had booked the booth on his way out of the airport. When they were at the table, he said to

Starry, "Did you get a fight with Filip?"

Starry took off her scarf and shook her head. "No."

"Than why..."

Starry licked her lip and answered him without telling him the real reason. "We have divorced after all."

It's might be easy for others to be friends after divorce, but it would be impossible for her and Filip

regardless of what had happened the other day.

Wyatt said to her after a while, "Got you."

He said nothing about him anymore, and handed her the menu.

After the lunch, Wyatt drove her back to the villa.

Starry had already had it cleaned up. The flowers were blooming and the fish were lively.

Since the weather was fine, Starry took a pair of scissors to trim the unruly flower branches.

When he had done the entire garden, the sky was already dark.

Without the sun, the wind was cold.

She ordered her dinner with her phone in her house, and modify something she had written the other

day with her laptop.

Meanwhile, the icy atmosphere in the senior meeting room was looming over the attendees.

Filip was sitting there silently with his formidable grim face.

The manager, who had tried to defend herself, was tuning down her voice until she was too scared to

finish.

Silence fell upon the large meeting room, where everybody was on pins and needles.

The high-pressured silence lasted for nearly five seconds before the man in the chairman seat spoke,

"This is what you have got from three months?"

Filip sniffed, "If you can't do it, I can change the team.' ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

With that he rose to leave the meeting room.

Austin soon caught up with him, following after him with a meter away, daring not to get closer or

farther.

Filip entered the elevator and glanced at the files on Austin's hands. "Cancel the morning meeting

tomorrow."

"Yes, Mr. Pearson."

Austin soon moved and hide the files Filip was still looking at.

He thought he'd better hide them away from Filip to avoid adding fuel to the fire.

When the car stopped, Filip felt an unspoken depression in his chest.

Inexplicably, he drove the car outside Starry's villa.

This time, there was finally light in there.

There he sat in the car, staring at the lighted second story and lighted up a cigarette

Wind blew in with chillness. He got so sober by the nicotine and the cold wind.

It was the soberness that made him realize that there might be no turning back.

His pride and self-control were invalid when he was with Starry Bradley.