Chapter 51 - About The Marriage Alliance

Mrs. Preston watched Nathan's figure disappear at the door before taking back her gaze to look at Selena who sat beside her. Initially, she had wanted to make Selena see Nathan off but observing the awkward atmosphere surrounding them and together with the fact that the two weren't really that familiar with each other as they should be meeting for the first time today, she had decided against it.  Yes, she had noticed since she came in that the two were acting wrong around each other, especially her daughter who obviously couldn't wait to be as far as possible from Nathan. This particular wrong feeling, she observed, hadn't originated from ambiguity but rather from the fact that Selena was trying to distance herself away from him. All this together had made her arrive at a conclusion as to why her daughter was acting this way, however, this only made her feel an oncoming headache. She had always thought that even if Nathan had been quite impulsive and impatient