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,

was the real

expression returned to a

was your fiancée. Shouldn’t you graciously accompany her on her final journey? Shouldn’t you hold a solemn funeral and continue playing the role of her devoted lover?”

and with a mocking smile, she said, “Rest assured,

around, her hand already

hoisted her over his shoulder, and then unceremoniously tossed

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

mist, with a teasing tone in his voice as he

her ear.

so eager to escape? Are you afraid of

difficult, Julie chuckled in derision, answering, “Because

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

themselves, right? Mr. Hernandez, do you really

like she could attack him at any moment.

at Julie and started to speak, “Considering you were

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

looked at Kieran calmly,