Facade of Love

Chapter 214

Chapter 214 Are you cursing me with a rotten heart and lungs?

I scowled. “What do you mean ‘what’s my plan‘?”

He sounded annoyed. “You hurt me. Are you just going to let that slide?”

I thought… Wait, I hurt him?

So I was the one to blame now?

Suppressing a sigh, I replied, “I didn’t hurt you. You were the one who got blackout drunk and tangled with a frisky dog, ending up hurt. I was the good Samaritan who got you home safely, Idris. You should be thanking me, not accusing me of wrongdoing!”

He went silent again, and I figured that was the end of it. I got ready to hang up.

Then, his voice came through, low and steady. “So, Yvette, why did I end up blackout drunk? Why did I fight with a dog in heat? What’s really at the root of this injury?”

I scrunched my forehead, itching to argue back, but then it hit me–last night’s drinking binge with Mr. Lowry was all to hook him up with Scott Corporation, and it was all for me. His hangover, the whole mess, it traced back to… me.

I could not dodge the truth.

Phone in hand, I clammed up, my mind racing for the right words.

broke through, “After all I’ve done for you, swinging by the hospital isn’t asking too much, is it?

practically hear the smirk in

That’s what it was.

the heck was

not exactly something to brag about. Shouldn’t he be mortified? Shouldn’t he be steaming mad

was

not have his nerve. I sighed and caved, “It’s not too much. So,

”

as a married couple, you’ve gotta know something,” he said, like we were still

bit my lip, rolling my eyes so hard I saw my brain. I knew jack squat. Two years

took a deep breath and told him, “Fine, I’ll just grab something.”

up before

he get so

prince charming act

214 Are you cursing me with a rotten heart and

Idris for a bit, feeling a little less annoyed, then got my act together

out.

wrench in those plans. As I

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