Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 121

“Show me your ID, Kieran extended his hand to Julie.

Julie clutched her bag tightly, eyeing him warily, “Aren’t you the CEO of Simpo Co.? You have facial recognition technology Why do you need my ID? Are you planning to get me a separate room?”

“Alright, show me your bank card too,” Kieran stood at the door, his hand outstretched towards Julie.

Pressing her baseball cap lower, Julie hugged her bag lighter, “In that case, I might as well stay at a hostel.”

She would talk about what she wanted to say another day.

Kieran eyed Julie’s small figure, “How long do you think it would take me to tear down a hostel?”

Julie finally stopped, not because his words scared her, but because Kieran grabbed her arm. She turned to look at him, a hint of surrender in her eyes, “Can’t you use your privilege to avoid registration?”

“Do you think sharing a room with me is humiliating? The man’s deep gaze met Julie’s. Once, she longed for him to look at her this way, but now she feared his direct gaze. Finally, she met Kieran’s eyes with a defiant pride, “Yes, it’s humiliating. Very humiliating. Extremely humiliating…

He suddenly pressed a finger to her lips, “Say it again and I’ll get angry, Julie. Don’t provoke me.”

Who’s provoking who? Julie pushed his hand away, her beautiful eyes glared at Kieran from under the brim of her cap.

Kieran still held out his hand, ‘Privilege? Do you know the law? Everyone needs to show ID when checking into a hotel, it’s the law. As a lawyer, you know the law but don’t comply, what’s the logic in that? Show me your ID or I’m going to check in with our divorce certificate.”

In the end, Julie pulled out her ID and handed it to Kieran.

With the ID in hand, Kieran handed it to the front desk. Julie kept her head down the entire time, but she could still feel the gazes of the staff. After checking in, Kieran led Julie to the elevator and pressed the button for the seventh floor. Suddenly, Julie felt a sense of unease. Sure enough, Kieran brought her to room 7401, the room where they first had sex…

in silence, but Kieran grabbed the back of her shirt. While holding onto Julie, he opened the door and pulled her straight in. He closed the door behind them with

her throat dry. “Do you really have to do this? Do you have to

last word was spoken in a sultry, low voice, like aged

grudge. Just because his phone password was the room number and she casually

her hands on his chest, trying to push him away. But he stood firm, like an

in disappointment, “Yes, I remember this room. I remember clearly. I remember it was December 25th, Christmas, your birthday Yes, I remember it was me who initiated it. I brought it upon myself. Are you satisfied now? I, Julie, can’t let go. I have

remember, Kieran replied, looking at the emotional Julie. His emotions were

person could be so calm about this. Either he had extraordinary emotional intelligence, able to

care, he could stay so

a deep breath. She finally managed to control her emotions and asked Kieran, “Bertha,

his side. “1 asked Dylan this question, but he didn’t give me a direct answer. Although the official statement is that she committed suicide, I don’t believe it. Kieran, she died in front of me. Before she died, I saw fear in her eyes, deep fear. Why would

you mention it when Bertha just died? If you didn’t say it

I want to know the truth,” Julie took a deep breath, finally gathering the courage. Although her eyes were slightly red, her gaze was unwavering, “I want to know, when you said you never slept with Bertha, was that true? I want to know,

if you never had a relationship with her, why did you claim the child

when you said you didn’t love her, why did you say… to save her child… outside the delivery room…

before she could finish her sentence, she was pulled into a strong, warm chest

over ten minutes, from initial lip contact to intimate caress. He seemed to want to make up for the lost five

with this kiss.

that Julie was almost out of breath when he finally pulled away a bit. Julie’s breath hitched, her cheeks flushed like a ripe fruit from lack of oxygen. Squinting her beautiful eyes, she finally looked up at

so much so that all they could hear was each other’s close-up breathing, even

tender tone, he said, “Babe, not all questions in this world have answers,”

to look at Kieran,

If I tell you there were no secrets, that my initial choice back then was to save Bertha’s child, how are you planning to be react? Run away again

She didn’t even know how she would handle her

she had mustered up the courage to ask this question after preparing for many years, but it turned out that she hadn’t even figured out how to face it after all these