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.

it was the end of the world? We had been married for two years. We had been through the whole ‘you may now kiss the bride‘ and

had he turned

lot lighter.

orders from some swanky eatery. Idris was at the table, buried in paperwork, the food untouched as if he was waiting for me. He looked up

a ghost of a smile on

him, taking a deep breath. With the year winding down, how

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

together. “It’s no big

energy on my problems, and I definitely did not want to drag him

but he got the message. His hand froze, milk glass halfway to his lips. He fixed his gaze on me. “Are you trying to

245 Shadowed Steps

The cops are

I braced for a blow–up. Instead of reacting as I expected,

he could finish, Charles burst in, panic written all over his face. “Mr. Young, Madam Young’s

worry in his eyes. He

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