Chapter 91 Caspian was still in love with his ex-wife.

Chapter 91 Caspian was still in love with his ex-wife.
Madison felt stupid. The only reason she let Sebastian stay was because he had asked, and she did not have a problem with him. Now, she wondered if that was a huge mistake.

“Why do I get the idea you only came here to ask me about Michelle?” she asked, her voice low and suspicious. Sebastian did not even try to lie.

He had used the whole situation with Lake and Caspian not wanting him around. It was just a way to get Madison alone and pick her brain about Michelle. The woman had been so closed off, never once mentioning a past husband.

“You can think that,” he said. “But I need to know what I am dealing with. Look, I can pay you for the information. If that is what you want.” Madison’s temper sparked.

“You are a real piece of work. Do I look like I need your fucking money?”

Sebastian knew he was wrong, but how else was he supposed to ask? He did not know her. He just remembered Michelle saying they did not have enough time together, which meant they were close.

“Do not be angry. I am just… I really want her back,” he said, and he meant it. What they had before was a business deal. He would take another deal just to start things over again.

Madison did not feel right speaking for Michelle.

In her mind, if a man wanted a woman, he should go after her himself. He should keep going until he finally understood she was never coming back.

“Then act like a man and go after her. Why would you think I would help you hurt my boss?” she asked, her voice flat.

If she had to pick a side, it would be Caspian’s. “I worked with Caspian. I saw how empty he was all those years, thinking she was gone.”

He only went back to Sienna because his parents forced him. They wanted a marriage, an heir. “If I helped anyone, it would be him. But I will not help him either.”

She would not do it. Caspian had made his own bad choices. She saw how he ignored his wife, treating her like just another employee.

Often, Caspian would not even let Michelle give her reports directly to him.

Michelle never got the respect a wife should have, working beside her husband. So Caspian deserved every bit of pain he got.

“If you love Michelle, then do the hard work. Stop looking for an easy way in.” Madison was not going to make this simple for him.

She was sick of Sebastian hiding behind his father to get things from Michelle—things he knew he had not earned.

Something in her words caught his attention. “What did you mean, he would not have taken Sienna back? Were they broken up before?”

Madison’s smile was thin and sour. “Yes. She tried to kill herself. Even then, Caspian would have walked away if his father did not make him go. I was there when his father threw him out of the office to go sit by her bed.”

The whole time Caspian was at that hospital, his father was running his company for him.

Sometimes Madison felt bad for Caspian, but it was his fault their baby died.

“I am sorry I upset you,” Sebastian said, and he actually meant it. At least he had learned something. He knew what he was facing now.

Caspian was still in love with his ex-wife. But Michelle? That was a different question.

Madison took a long breath, letting her anger settle. “It is fine. There is only one bathroom here, and it is in my room. So you should go shower or whatever you need to do before I turn in for the night.”

Sebastian had already seen that and wanted to talk about the arrangement, but he was more worried that she had not eaten. “Are you not going to have any food?”

“I am not hungry,” she said, her smile not quite reaching her eyes.

“Okay. I will be fast.”

The next morning, Madison walked into the office to find a crowd waiting. She did not know who to deal with first.

“Where is Caspian?” Mr. Louis Gannon’s voice boomed through the space. Caspian’s brothers, Lucas and Ethan, stood beside him, their faces agreeing. There was a crisis, and Caspian was missing.

To one side, Madison saw Sienna’s father and mother. And there, too, was Caspian’s own mother. She almost never came to the office, which told Madison how bad this was.

“Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. Gannon,” Madison said, trying to be polite.

The older man was not having it. “I asked you a question. Where is my son?”

“He is not at home, and his telephone does not work, so start explaining,” Mr. Vance added, his voice cold.