Farewell to Love: The CEO's Desperate Chase novel Chapter 214

Tyler didn’t say a word as he drove Vivienne back to Vivian Floral Atelier.

He couldn’t help wondering if maybe he didn’t truly know Vivienne anymore.

Vivienne stayed silent as well.

Ever since she’d started using the entertainment connections of The Erickson Group, certain things had become unavoidable. And now, with some mysterious new player in the mix, her own team—Jack’s people—just weren’t enough. She’d had to turn to The Erickson Group’s resources again.

Only this time, she’d been more cautious.

After what happened the last time she involved The Erickson Group, Vivienne made sure to keep things separate. She used their influence only to push back against the malicious rumors about her, and to leak the news about Serena’s miscarriage.

As for the accusations of “trading favors for power” and “charity fraud,” those she’d handed off to Jack’s team to handle quietly behind the scenes.

So Tyler only knew what she wanted him to know: that her team was fighting back against false rumors, and that she’d let slip the truth about Serena’s miscarriage. Anything else—well, people might speculate, but as long as she didn’t admit to it, it was all just hearsay.

The car ride passed in silence.

Only when they stopped in front of the flower shop did Vivienne finally speak.

“Tyler, I know you don’t see me the same way right now,” she said quietly, “but I don’t want to lie to you.”

“If I wanted to keep things secret, I could’ve gone to Wyatt. He’d jump at the chance to take down Christian. But I chose to let you see this side of me.”

She turned to look at Tyler.

At that moment, his dark eyes were filled with something she couldn’t read.

“She’s been coming after me so relentlessly—I had to hit back. All I did was reveal the truth about her miscarriage. And it’s not a smear, it’s what really happened. She lost the baby ten days before her first livestream. I didn’t lie about that.”

That was how the world worked, how trust between people was built.

Was Vivienne really only guilty of exposing Serena’s miscarriage?

“Tyler, I know what you’re thinking. I swear, I didn’t do the other two things. If I’m lying, I’ll walk out of this car and get hit by the next one that passes, right now.”

“There’s more than one person who wants to drag Serena and Christian down. Wyatt was behind it last time.”

“If you don’t believe me, then leave. Go back to Emilia—you two are still on your break, right? She’ll be happy to see you. It doesn’t matter to me; I don’t have much time left anyway.”

She took a shaky breath, pressing on, “I really believe I was just defending myself. And from the way things played out, even if I hadn’t done anything, someone else would’ve leaked Serena’s miscarriage sooner or later.”

“I’m not just doing this for myself, Tyler. I’m doing it for all the patients who believe in me, who see me as their hope.”