Burn the Marriage, Keep the Crown

Chapter 199

It took a considerable amount of time before Aaron finally lifted his head and met

Serena's gaze.

He casually propped his legs up on the table. "Let's discuss it here."

"I'm afraid that's not appropriate," Serena countered.

"There's nothing inappropriate about it. Or perhaps," Aaron swirled the wine in his glass, a devilish grin playing on his lips, "Cynthia is just your excuse."

Serena remained silent.

"What I want to say is, when Miss Lynwood supposedly had a compatibility test with me, I checked at the hospital. No such test was ever conducted between us..."

Aaron's eyes narrowed. After a moment, he set down his glass and stood, his voice icy, "Follow me."

Serena watched Aaron walk past her and then glanced at the others in the private room.

Her eyes were calm, disturbingly so, as if she were looking at ghosts.

Everyone held their breath, too afraid to speak.

It wasn't until Serena's figure disappeared from the doorway for quite some time that someone dared to voice a hesitant question.

"Was that really the Serena we know?"

exchanged confused looks, unable

of the room, Frederick

had assumed Serena would eventually

To his surprise...

smirk appeared

seemed his understanding of Serena

room, after the door closed, Aaron's clenched arm was still

want to say?"

her phone and played a

a frown, but when he heard Matthew

The recording ended.

the veins

you get

Owens gave it to me," Serena replied, looking directly into Aaron's eyes. "It's attempted murder,

skipped a

like that, I certainly

was quite

reacting as

you wouldn't cover for

"What are you insinuating? Do you

that sending Cynthia Lynwood abroad had ulterior motives. Didn't you sense something was wrong and wanted her out of the

Aaron frowned.

personal reasons for sending Cynthia