Chapter 41—Took Him So Long To Confess His Feelings!

"Are you okay?" Matteo asked when Lena almost bumped into him. She would have hit him if he didn't move out of the way right on time. Lena was running and didn't see Matteo coming in the same direction as her. "I'm sorry, " Lena apologised. She was trying to catch her breath and process things. 'Did Henderson Bain just confess having feelings for her? Henderson was in love with her?' Lena just ran out of Henderson's office after he confessed his feelings, she didn't know what to say or how to respond to his words. "Lenny, " Matteo snapped his fingers in front of Lena's face when he kept calling her but got no response. "Huh? I have to go now." Lena rushed her words and dashed away before Matteo could stop her. "What's wrong with her?" Chelsey faked concern as she watched Lena's retreating figure. Earlier she sent Lena into Henderson's office because she knew Vivian was there and she thought it was going to create a rift between Lena and Henderson. Chelsey thought Lena and Henderson were in a relationship and she wanted to ruin it badly. "It's none of your business, " Matteo muttered shooting Chelsey a glare. He knew her to be the queen of gossip around the company. Chelsey rolled her eyes at Matteo and let out a loud hiss before ambling away. "Matteo come with me, " Matteo heard Henderson's voice behind him. He turned to see Henderson who had a scowl on his face and a pissed expression as he peered at him. Henderson began to amble away after casting Matteo a cold glare, Matteo got the command. He trailed after Henderson until they walled into Henderson's office. "Are you and Lena in a relationship? How could I not know that you are the Matteo she has always talked about? No wonder you have always shown interest whenever I talked about Lena, "Henderson's face turned dark, he leered at Matteo as though he was an opponent of his. Matteo smiled but when he saw the annoyed look on Henderson's face, he maintained a serious expression. "I think you are mistaken sir. Lena and I are best friends, we've been best friends since high school. Also, we don't have feelings for each other, we are just really good friends." A small smile played on Henderson's face but he kept his cold expression afterwards. Earlier, when he went after Lena and saw her talking with Matteo, he was overwhelmed by jealousy and disappointment thinking that they had something going on between them but now he was relieved since no one else was in the picture. "I see. What do you think of me, Matteo?" Henderson asked taking Matteo by surprise, it dazed Matteo that his boss wanted to get an opinion of himself from him. 'But he suspected it had to do with Lena. Maybe it was Henderson's way of asking him what Lena thought about him.' If Matteo was going to answer the question from the perspective when Lena hadn't started to work for Henderson then he was going to be spewing some bitter truth. But in the past few months since Lena came into the picture, his boss had changed it was more of a transition from a billionaire with an awful attitude to becoming a better man. Henderson never treated his employees badly but he was indifferently arrogant and sometimes a jerk but all of that had stopped. "Honestly if you had asked me this question long ago I would have said you are an arrogant, pompous boss but now my opinions have changed because I think you are not the same as you used to be. You are humble and exude some kind of kindness and understanding I never thought you had in you." Matteo said truthfully. He had always awaited a chance to tell Henderson just how he felt and now the opportunity had come, he wasn't going to throw that away by being a coward who would sugarcoat his words because he was scared of his boss. He could tell Henderson was stunned that he could say that to his face considering how Henderson's expression radiated all levels of shock. "Thank you for being honest with me Matteo, " Henderson smiled. This was the first time Matteo got a smile from Henderson. Matteo returned the smile, "You are welcome boss." He bowed slightly. "You can return to your office. Thank you." Matteo felt that Henderson was suddenly being too nice. He guessed it had to do with the fact that Henderson found out that he and Lena were best friends and maybe he wanted him to speak good of him to Lena but Matteo could say with confidence that Henderson didn't need him to win Lena's heart, she was already in love with Henderson. Matteo was perplexed by Lena's weird behaviour before she left the company, he wondered what must have made her run out of Henderson's like she was being chased. He was certainly going to call her up and find out. Lena was lost in thoughts even after she got back to the mansion. She blamed herself, 'If only she hadn't gone to meet Henderson and asked if he was still in love with his ex-wife, he would never have said that to her. Was she in love with Henderson? Did she have feelings for him? No, she didn't?' She kept throwing numerous questions at herself. 'How was she going to face Henderson when he returns from the office?' Later that day when Henderson dropped off Trent and Itzel at the mansion after picking them up from school. He asked after Lena and was told by Madam Carmen that she was asleep so he returned to the office. Lena watched Henderson leave, she pretended to be asleep earlier when Madam Carmen had come to check on her. "Lena, " Madam Carmen called tapping her on the back. Lena flinched, she placed a hand on her chest and swivelled to face Madam Carmen. "What are you doing here? I thought you were asleep, " Madam Carmen's eyes crinkled as she stared at Lena suspiciously. Lena chuckled nervously itching the back of her head, she was trying so hard to come up with a believable lie as to why she was hiding behind a pillar. "I just woke up." Lena lied. "Are you ok, Lena? You know you can tell me anything right? You've been acting strange since you got back from Henderson's office, did anything happen over there?" Madam Carmen's voice was laced with warmth as she spoke. Ever since Lena started to work at the mansion Madam Carmen has been nothing but kind to her. Even when Maya and Alia made Lena's life miserable while they stayed at the mansion she encouraged Lena to ignore them. "Well, when I went to Henderson's office. I saw Vivian, " Lena muttered. She didn't know if it was the warmth and comfort madame Carmen always exuded but she felt she could confide in her. "Vivian?" Madam Carmen scowled with a pinched expression. "That cruel woman, did she do anything to you hurt you, Lena?" Her voice held concern as she spoke. Lena shook her head, "No, she didn't. Vivian left after I walked in, I asked Henderson if he still loved her. He said he didn't because he was in love with someone and then he asked if I didn't want to know who that person was I didn't say anything. And he said he was in love with me, I just ran off and now I don't know how to face him." Lena noticed Madam Carmen didn't appear surprised by the reveal rather a smile embraced her lips. "Took him so long to confess his feelings, " she chuckled.