Facade of Love

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Chapter 245 Shadowed Steps

Sticking around?

I blinked, my brow furrowing in confusion. “You’re gonna camp out at the police station?”

He nodded again, his face a calm mask, but there was a shadow in his eyes as they slid away from me.

It only hit me later that I had switched into my pajamas before bed last night. I must have been tossing and turning all night because I could not find my jacket and all I had on was a tank top. With the morning rush, I had not bothered to straighten up, and one strap had made a break for it down my arm, leaving me pretty much half–dressed.

Looking kind of… exposed, I realized.

I yanked the covers up to my chin, my cheeks heating up. “You don’t need to bother, really. It’s just some routine investigation stuff, nothing major. You don’t have to go.”

His lips tightened, and he did not argue, just saying, “We’ll talk after breakfast.”

With that, he walked out of the bedroom, all business.

the world? We had been married for two years. We had been through the whole ‘you may now kiss the bride‘ and then some. Why

turned into Mr.

almost made me giggle, and I felt a whole lot lighter. After freshening up and slipping into something

was waiting for me. He looked up as I

a ghost of a smile on his

deep breath. With the year winding down, how could it not be

hold for me was not right. I looked him in the eye and said, “I’ll head to the police station myself later. You should get back to your own stuff. I didn’t kill anyone, and there’s no way I’m going to end up

eyebrows knitted together. “It’s no big deal,” he

my problems, and I definitely did not want to drag him down with me. “Idris, this is my battle,” I said, trying to keep my voice steady.

froze, milk glass halfway to his lips.

Shadowed Steps

it’s all the same to you, I would rather you did not get involved. The cops are keeping a lid on Noah’s case, and the media is still in the dark,

for a blow–up. Instead of reacting as I expected, he said quietly,” This isn’t

“Mr. Young, Madam Young’s coughing up blood.

worry in his eyes. He gave me

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