Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 167

Since it was Julie’s request, Noah didn’t hesitate a bit to rip open the courier package, revealing a beautifully wrapped purple box inside. “Keep going,” Julie urged.

Noah opened the purple wrapping, revealing a delicate black velvet box that looked pretty fancy.

It reminded him of a ring box.

Julie glanced at Kieran, as if asking if he had anything to do with the package. After all, apart from Kieran and Elliot, no one else had ever presented her with a ring. And her name was clearly written on the box.

But Kieran just shrugged and said, “Anonymity ain’t my style.”

Well, figures…

A guy like Kieran, confident and unapologetic, when he gave her a ring, he’d put it directly on her finger, leaving no room for refusal.

While Julie and Kieran were talking, Noah had already opened the box.

Inside, there was a stunning ring.

The very emerald they had seen at the auction earlier that day.

After being stunned for a moment, Julie laughed and said, “Who’s so boring to send a fake over.”

“There’s a certificate of authenticity,” Noah held up the gem certificate to the camera.

Julie glanced at it and chuckled, “They’ve done a good job, even prepared a fake certificate.”

She casually teased, looking at Kieran with a playful smile, but his expression was serious. Her smile froze…

Kieran was usually confident, rarely showing such a serious look. Did this mean…

“What is it?” Julie asked hesitantly, “Wasn’t the ring bought at the auction? That can’t be the real one, right?”

She was partly asking Kieran’s opinion, partly comforting herself that it must be a fake. After all, who would spend 9 million dollars on an emerald ring for her…

But Kieran’s expression seemed to suggest the ring wasn’t a fake.

Instead of answering, he dialed a number on his phone.

Half an hour later, at Kieran’s command, Karl delivered the ring from Noblewood Retreat to their villa. Julie took a good look at the ring, then turned to Kieran with a serious look, “It looks the same as my mother’s. I can’t tell if it’s real or not…”

his watch.

he handed the ring box to Julie.

box and asked him with a puzzled look,

just took her hand and led

this ring!”

ring. Now she felt like holding 9 million dollars in cash, feeling anxious, hoping to deposit it in a bank vault as soon as

her for merely touching the ring-a ring

the panic on Julie’s face, Kieran leaned in close, “My face is worth 9 million dollars too, but that doesn’t stop

skip this topic and managed a forced smile, “Where are you

Where on

the type who’d patiently

wasn’t just taking her for a walk. He led her to

experience with Kieran ringing a bell, Julie wisely chose to

the door was pushed open from inside.

greeted Kieran with a warm smile, “What

he home?” Kieran

“Yes, he’s home. But he’s been busy,

you here to see him?”

nodded, “I’ll go

that, he led Julie

had never been here before, didn’t know who lived here, nor who ‘he’ Kieran was referring to. But judging from Kieran’s

upstairs and stopped in front of a closed

typing rapidly on a keyboard, surrounded by four computers, each running

I can’t beat this jerk

Julie was speechless.

who the man was. She’d heard about Kieran’s cousin, Payne Hernandez, a brilliant hacker. Even the National Security Agency had tried to

the Lamont family. Because they were so close, there were rumors that they were actually in love. But when Mister L got married and had kids,

recalls people saying that Payne quit because he

of the gossip

almost everyone around him, but for

when she saw him, she

the “bastard” he was talking about, he turned to: Kieran and said, “Kieran, people say let bygones be

refer to her as a bygone, a past that

who doesn’t even know the basics, stop envying my past,” Kieran took out the emerald ring from Julie’s pocket and put it in front of Payne, “Check if this is

“Your cousin doesn’t even know anything about this ring, are you sure he can tell