Don’t Fall for the Billionaire Lover by Rosa Winters

Chapter 779

Chloe hesitated a bit before grabbing her phone. She wasn't keen on seeing Connor get played. As she pressed it to her ear, a deep voice greeted her, "Cassie, where are you guys?"

Chloe blinked in surprise, "How'd you know it's Cassie?" She could barely recognize the voice herself. Hearing Chloe, Connor felt a wave of relief wash over him. It wasn't Cassie's voice he picked up on, but her distinctive tone. Only Cassie called Chloe "dear" with that unique accent that seemed to lift at the end of each sentence.

Connor dodged Chloe's question, simply asking, "Where are you?" Chloe wasn't about to answer his question either. "What do you want?" she countered.

"Can't I call just because?" Connor's tone rubbed Chloe the wrong way. But she wasn't backing down, "If it's nothing, I'm hanging up."

"Grandma Marian's sick. We need to swing by the family home tonight," he said quickly.

just didn't want Chloe to hang up, maybe he just wanted an excuse to see her. But once the words were out,

I'll come get you," he offered. Chloe promptly

Cassie smirked, "Grandma Marian and Jeffery were at the private clinic visiting my granddad just yesterday. Marian looked fit as a fiddle-he's definitely bluffing." "Really?" Chloe asked,

video-chatted with granddad last night. He told me himself," Cassie confirmed. Chloe furrowed her brows,

just too soft-hearted. I was just teasing him

truth, she had to see for herself. While packing, she said, "It's you I can't bear to upset mot him. He's got a vengeful streak. If

"I don't buy it.

He rang up the family home to check on Marian's whereabouts Lando was laid up with gout at the Bloomsbury Hot Springs Resort. If his memory was right, Marian and Jeffery had visited him there the day before. The butler confirmed his suspicions: Jeffery and Marian were planning

at the family home.