Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 4

“Let go of me!” Julie raised her chin, staring firmly at the man in front of her, her eyes gleaming with a cold resolve.

“Bertha Stewart is dead,” the man’s voice suddenly came from above.-

Julie’s entire body stiffened in an instant, her struggling came to a halt. A slight ripple appeared on her

calm face.

Bertha’s death wasn’t surprising to her, as she had witnessed the whole process herself. But when this fact came from the lips of Kieran Hernandez, her heart felt like it had been pricked.

She remembered the day she decided to divorce him, asking him, “Kieran, would you be sad if the person who died on the operating room that day was me?”

She distinctly remembered the icy look in his eyes back then, as cold as falling into an ice cellar.

He sat elegantly on the sofa, legs crossed, his gaze seemingly veiled in mist. His faint lips uttered a weak voice, yet resolutely answered her, “No.”

Then he picked up the pen she had given him and elegantly signed his name on the divorce agreement.

of the divorce, she

now, she was the

recently mournful expression returned to

Shouldn’t you graciously accompany her on her final journey? Shouldn’t you hold

coldly pushed the man in front of her and with a mocking smile, she said, “Rest

hand already on the doorknob.

could open the door, the man suddenly hoisted her over his shoulder,

and Kieran to fall onto the bed together. To avoid crushing her, Kieran supported himself with

down at Julie, his eyes veiled in mist, with

her ear.

are you so eager to escape? Are you

become somewhat difficult, Julie chuckled in derision, answering, “Because I’m a human. It’s normal to be scared when

sarcasm,” the man didn’t mind

be a bit tough to protect themselves, right? Mr. Hernandez, do you really have to wait until I harm you

could attack

and started to speak, “Considering you were the only witness present when.

his sentence, Julie coldly interrupted, “You want me to give a statement, don’t you? I’ll go to the

looked at Kieran calmly, her tone