Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 172

Chapter 172

It was a pity that Adeline ordered so much food, and Julie didn’t even get time to eat before she was sent back.

She glanced at her watch, still half an hour to go to work, so Julie went to the cafeteria.

Her tummy was screaming for food and she totally forgot about her lunch date with Kieran, leaving him hanging.

As Julie walked into the cafeteria, she saw Davina chowing down with some colleagues. She flashed Davina a smile but noticed she was acting a bit squirrelly.

Following Davina’s gaze, she saw Kieran in the employee dining room, staring at her with a poker face.

It never crossed her mind that Kieran would be waiting for her here. Julie could feel a shiver running down her forehead as she approached him. Only then did she remember her phone had died, and she completely forgot to text Kieran back.

She didn’t grab any food, just plonked down opposite Kieran and started, “Look, I can explain…”

“Curry potatoes, bacon rolls, what else tickles your ” Kieran cut Julie off, pointing at her favorite dishes, “Eat up before the food

gets cold.”

Julie clamped her mouth shut, the words she was about to say stuck in her throat.

Shaking her head, she said, “No need, this is more than enough.”

Realizing she screwed up, Julie started to dig into the bacon rolls.

Kieran sat back in his chair, looking all chill but with a vibe of nobility, making Julie feel like she was being looked down upon. The bacon roll felt stuck in her throat.

“What did you say to Adeline?” he asked, his voice low and husky.

Adeline had dragged her out of the office earlier, with lots of colleagues around. But no one should know about Adeline, so Julie was surprised and asked, “How did you know I went out with Adeline?”

“I also know Elliot dropped you off at the office,” he said.

Julie looked puzzled, not speaking but just staring at him, trying to figure out what he was playing at.

she couldn’t

always good at playing his cards close to his chest, otherwise, he wouldn’t have tricked her into thinking their child died during surgery

their marriage, Kieran always held the upper

up a bacon roll with his fork

it, just gave him the cold shoulder, waiting for him

might have a mini

landed on Julie’s black

She clutched her bag and checked it, only to find no camera. She looked up at

fell for

bacon roll and said, “Check the strap

と

was torn, not sure

and found a hidden camera on

color as the strap, and Julie never paid attention to it. She certainly never imagined Kieran would

out the hidden camera that she frowned,

Kieran didn’t reply.

grabbed her bag back and demanded,

bugged. This meant that as long as she had the bag with

every move.

her bag

watched Julie’s receding figure, furrowing his brows,

Kieran grabbed Julie’s hand but

stalking me, you’re also bugging my stuff. How are you any different from a peeping Tom?” she said,

looked at him, choking on her words, and let it all out, “You never ask me what I want! You always tell me after you’ve done it. You always say it’s for my good, even when you lie to me! Even when you wanted a divorce, you never said it, instead you forced me to say it. I was the one who loved you, chased

it all

up in Julie’s eyes, but she didn’t let

I wished I had never met you? Do you know how much I wished

he said.

know that all your decisions are right, that your choices are protecting the ones you love. But you don’t know that you’ve deprived me of being a mother, deprived Ivan of having a mother.

away, sobbingly asking him, “Did you ever think that if you trusted me from the start, if you were honest with me from the start, I wouldn’t have missed out on Ivan’s growth, we… wouldn’t have missed out on so many years… What do you want me to do now?

me. Bertha stayed with me all these years…” Kieran’s deep eyes glimmered with a cold light, but they were also filled with profound emotions. Yet his words were cold as ice.

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