Falling for a Lie: My Stepbrother's Hidden Revenge

Chapter 73

Edgar didn’t utter a word and looked at her with a livid face.

“Edgar, hear me out…” Nancy fumbled for an explanation, “You’re reading too much into it. It was just

idle chit–chat.”

Cold sweat was breaking out across her forehead, uncertain of how much of her conversation with Sarah he had actually overheard, so she decided to play dumb.

“What are you going to do?”

Edgar brushed aside her attempt at explanation, a ruthless glint in his eyes.

That icy stare, that frosty tone, could it be that he had heard it all?!

Nancy’s hand instinctively clenched the corner of the quilt.

“It’s nothing, I was just chewing the fat with a friend. Don’t you trust me?”

Edgar paid no heed to her doe–eyed pleas, his piercing gaze seeming to see right through her: “You should know, even if you keep mum, I can send someone to dig up the truth. But by then, you’ll be out of luck.”

He kept toying with his wristwatch, his face a mask, hiding any emotions that might give him away. This poker face of his put Nancy even more on edge.

She bit her lip, realizing she couldn’t weasel her way out of his line of questioning. Tears welled up in her eyes as she started to choke back sobs.

“Edgar! I can’t stomach this anymore! Sylvia divorced you, and yet you still have her in your good Sylvias! I’ve hardly ever set foot in that bay–side villa, let alone lived there! Yet you transferred the deed

to her.

“During the Mellis Group banquet last time, she shamed me. She even had the audacity to lay a hand on

me this time, I was just a hair’s breadth away from losing my chastity!

“Edgar! I despise her, I truly do! I just wanted to knock her down a peg or two. What’s so wrong about

that?”

She threw herself into Edgar’s arms, trying to play the damsel in distress, but he simply furrowed his brow and steadied her.

“I’m going to ask you one last time, where is Sylvia?”

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brow was knitted together, his tone resolute and brooking no

all these years together, are you saying I can’t hold a candle to that woman who doesn’t even have anything to do with

sobbed, tears streaming down her cheeks, “I’m your fiancee! Why are you being so cold–hearted? I’m the one suffering in

fleeting trace of weariness shone through his steely

to be different. You’ve disappointed me too

made a beeline for the door, leaving Nancy weeping on the hospital bed, her face streaked with tears.

was eerily quiet, with the

turned a deserted corner, Edgar took out his cell

me in

of downtown, taking a shortcut towards Gravel Mountain.

specifically chose a backstreet devoid of surveillance cameras

window down, the wind whooshing past her ears gave her a heady thrill of delight and

this wasn’t a joy ride. She still had something important to do and couldn’t afford to soak in the scenic countryside.

pedal, the engine roaring to life as it

phone buzzed. Sylvia caught a glimpse of the screen and smoothly tapped

Just a heads up, take a right after the tunnel and meet at the abandoned log cabin halfway up

GPS and turned

at the base of the mountain. Sylvia painstakingly compared it with the photo sent by Dark Bell, confirming it was the same vehicle used by the kidnappers to

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clump of bushes

within the forest. From a distance, it looked run–down and dilapidated, more

to a shack.

stride and

in a hurry,” came

leader of the kidnappers, clad in a thick black mask, was an unreadable entity.

at his feet, a patchwork of wounds,

swift glance at Abigail’s battered body, a flash of icy determination crossed her

her go first, and then

chair, and took a seat, her gaze nonchalantly fixed on

behavior. He roughly

to her

to save her? Believe it or not, I’ll kill her

“You won’t dare.”

his gaze head–on, her fearlessness

but carried an unwavering calm as if she had an army

her.

kidnapper’s face was a

bodyguard, Elon, were hunkered down in the woods just outside the

in advance by Sarah, which allowed her to

out of here just like