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.

the day of the divorce, she left

the real fool back then!

recently mournful expression returned to a flawless

on her final journey? Shouldn’t you hold

pushed the man in front of her and with a mocking

her hand already on the

her over his shoulder, and then unceremoniously tossed her onto

the bed together. To

looked down at Julie, his eyes veiled in mist, with a teasing tone in his voice as

her ear.

so eager to escape? Are

Julie chuckled in derision, answering, “Because I’m a human. It’s normal to be scared when facing a wild beast, isn’t it?”

quite the master of sarcasm,” the man didn’t mind her sarcasm, instead, he

at the man, her teeth gritted. “Sometimes, people need to be a bit tough to protect themselves, right? Mr. Hernandez, do you really have to wait until I harm

she could attack him at any moment.

to speak, “Considering you were

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

Kieran calmly,