Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 48

her gut reaction was to skedaddle.

Nowadays, the moment Julie heard Kieran’s name,

“Sorry, Porter, Daphne and I have something to attend to, we’re gonna bounce” Julie forced a smile, grabbed Daphne, and was ready to split the scene. But just then, behind her came the confident voice of Raul, the law school professor, “Julie? Running away as soon as you see me? Are you afraid I might eat you?”

Raul, in his sixties, looked at Julie with kindly eyes. She had no choice but to turn around and face the music. But what she didn’t expect was that standing next to Raul was the dean, and… Kieran.

He was wearing a dark gray suit, a white shirt paired with a blue–grey striped tie, formal and elegant. He stood amongst a group of leaders, radiating brilliance, calmly chatting with the dean.

Seemed like she was not getting off the hook today. Because Raul was already pointing at her, laughing as he said to Kieran, “Kieran, this is Joyce, who was head over heels for you, remember?”

Back then, Julie’s pursuit of Kieran was indeed crazy, like she would do anything for Kieran, just unstoppable.

her boyfriend. Julie was really determined back then, she even hired a professional parachuting team to perform a stunt at our school during summer break, which was way

pampered princess of the family, and didn’t worry about any life issues. Her biggest goal in

up such past memories, Julie now felt that she was really bold back then. How

enjoyed reminiscing about the past. “Thanks to Julie’s leap, it made social media news and gave our law school a big shout–out!” Many students gathered around, originally drawn by Kieran’s popularity and good looks, but ended up being attracted

bridge! Please don’t bring it up again, Julie will be embarrassed. She was just a naive

this, Daphne gave

old classmates gathered around after the scene, all starting to

table at a restaurant, my treat. We can chat while we eat, sound good?”

agreed to

for years, I haven’t heard from you since we graduated. We have to catch up on

and Julie used to share a dorm. But during school, Julie rarely went back to the dorm. She didn’t spend much time with Viviana, but Julie knew Viviana and Porter often bickered

happy