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

the real fool

expression returned to

“She was your fiancée. Shouldn’t you graciously accompany her on her final journey? Shouldn’t you hold a solemn funeral

of her and with a

turned around, her hand already on the doorknob.

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

tightly grabbed the man’s hand, causing both her and Kieran to fall onto the bed together. To avoid crushing

Julie, his eyes veiled in mist, with a teasing tone in

her ear.

to escape?

become somewhat difficult, Julie chuckled in derision, answering, “Because I’m a human. It’s

these years, you’ve become quite the master of sarcasm,” the man didn’t mind her sarcasm, instead, he smiled.

gritted. “Sometimes, people need to be a bit tough to protect themselves, right? Mr. Hernandez, do you really have

like she could attack

gazed at Julie and started to speak, “Considering you

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 to cooperate with the investigation. Can

at Kieran calmly,