Facade of Love

Chapter 313 Maxwell Digs Up the Past

“Zip it!” I fired back, whirling around to shoot daggers at Maxwell with my eyes. “Push me further, and I swear I’ll make you regret it.

He threw his hands up, feigning shock as he clutched his heart. “You’re terrifying, you know that? Here I have been, pining away for you, and you’re ready to tear out my tongue. They say there’s nothing scarier than a girl who’s been crossed.”

Words failed me, and the hall was eerily quiet. Slumping into the couch, I shot him a look.” When did you come back?”

He plopped down in the armchair beside me, his skin sun–kissed and his grin as charming as ever. “Just got here. What’s with the cold shoulder? This is not exactly the welcome I was hoping for.”

I ignored his joking around and cut to the chase, “What were you snooping around for in Lorrell?”

He stiffened for a moment, then put on a grave face and clamped his mouth shut, “Nothing…” “Maxwell,” I insisted, my tone unwavering, “It’s been barely a month since we last saw each other, and you are already shutting me out?”

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then. What secrets did you dig up in Lorrell?” I

then hit me with it. “My parents‘ death years back was no accident.” My heart did a somersault. Deep

mean it wasn’t just some random event?”

nod. “That disaster ten years ago? It happened because they dug too

on my lip, I tried to read the stormy look on his face, wondering just how much he had figured out. I pressed him, “Look, it’s been a decade. Everyone was convinced it was just the earth doing its thing, that

The mountains were practically shouting that they had been ripped open and poisoned. Yeah, there might have been some mining action a while back, but that was over

away anything he could get his hands on. Now, it is likely just a

gaze. The mountain had taken his family, and he had dedicated everything to uncovering its

was almost lost, “They’ve all bought into the ‘natural disaster story, but if this wasn’t an act of Mother Nature, then we’re talking about a crime. And if it is a crime, then those