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.

that excuse on the fly. He just didn't want Chloe to hang up,

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

Cassie smirked, "Grandma Marian and Jeffery were at the private clinic visiting my granddad just yesterday. Marian looked fit as

me himself," Cassie confirmed. Chloe furrowed her

just

said, "It's you I can't bear to upset mot

nibbling on her chicken wings, shrugged, "I don't buy it. I've got nothing on him,

the Bloomsbury Hot Springs Resort. If his memory was right, Marian and Jeffery had visited him there the day before.

at the family home.

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