Billionaire, Let's Divorce! by BELLA

Chapter 0292

"Oh!" She piped up, her eyes widening to the size of saucers,

You're back."

I held her gaze unflinchingly, deliberately refraining from responding to her startled exclamation as she likely anticipated. We remained locked in an unwavering stare for what felt like a few more seconds, and throughout that prolonged moment, try as I might, I couldn't suppress the wayward thoughts racing through my mind at breakneck speed.

Even as she continued to stare at me, her entire demeanor exuded a palpable sense of unease. Her palms were tightly curled around the torn page from Amie's drawing book.

I fixed her with a questioning gaze, my eyes darting back and forth between her face, which was etched with poorly concealed anxiety, and her balled fist, which seemed to tremble slightly under my s scrutiny. She appeared to comprehend the unspoken inquiry in my expression because she abruptly let out a nervous laugh that sounded more like a strangled hiccup. Raising her clenched fists in a gesture that was likely meant to appear casual but came across as forced.

She blurted out the most transparent lie I'd heard in recent memory, "Oh this? It's absolutely nothing."

1 arched my eyebrows skeptically, the muscles in my forehead tightening as I regarded her with mounting suspicion.

She widened her grin in response, the corners of her mouth stretching again as she reiterated, "It's nothing?"

with the forced grin was not herself. There

But why uld she do that? This would not be the first time

I nursed the possibility that she might have just been leading me on

Ana; about the open hearted talk we had in the car just on our way here, had

eluding me, I decided to cut

that, Clara? Why did you

waned, her lips turned downward and she finally looked away. Her shoulders drooped with

look at me like I just killed someone" she muttered, her voice lacking the sarcasm that was always laced to it as she unfurled the crumpled piece and

in the paper. Slowly, I walked to

her.

I stared at the

the front page, is an uneven sketch of a hospital bed and someone lying on top of it. If it had just been the pencil drawing, the meaning of the drawing could have been misinterpreted but the

painting of a person lying on a bed but with a harrowing expression on the person's face and each of these people

my side and glanced at the sleeping