Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 259

When Kieran set his mind on something, not even Amanda could stand in his way. Currently, Kieran was holding onto Amanda’s arm, showing no signs of letting go. His determination and confidence clearly indicated his resolution to stand his ground against Amanda.

Amanda and Kieran were watching at each other. In such a situation, Julie found herself at a loss for words and hence chose to remain silent.

Finally, Amanda relented, turning to Basil and saying, “Go get it.”

Basil returned with a black box, which contained an ordinary looking recording pen.

Amanda took out the recording pen and handed it to Kieran.

Kieran pressed the play button, and a voice came out. The voice had been altered, and the message was for Amanda to return home and take every opportunity to train Julie, as well as keep Julie indoors as much as possible.

Amanda said, “At first, I didn’t take it seriously, but after hearing this recording and finding out from Noah that Joyce had been kidnapped, had to believe it. With all the incidents that happened afterwards, it made me return home after Basil sorted things out.”

“Where did this recording come from?” Kieran questioned.

Amanda replied, “The day Basil accompanied me to the hospital for a full-body check-up, we found this recording pen on the desk when we returned.”

Basil pointed at the recording pen and said, “We’ve had professionals analyze the recording, but the technology is too advanced for us to find out the original voice. Amanda worried that you would be concerned, so…”

“Have Basil take grandma to rest,” Kieran instructed Basil.

Amanda held onto Kieran’s hand, “Kieran, I’m a bit uneasy. You mentioned before that Lucian is still alive, so I can’t help wondering, since he’s still alive, why hasn’t he come back? You’ve been searching for so many years and haven’t found him, could it be…”

“He is alive, and we already have some leads. You rest first, and I’ll take this recording to get it authenticated, see if we can figure it out.”

After Basil helped Amanda to retire, Kieran promptly handed the recording pen over to Payne.

Payne worked through the night, and just as the morning light graced the sky, he arrived at Noblewood Retreat.

Julie was woken up early in the morning by Bolt for training, with Kieran watching from the sidelines. Suddenly, Payne stormed into the room.

Seeing Payne’s dark circles under eyes, Julie was taken aback.

the results?” Kieran asked, eyeing the

and Kieran, “You guys

voice,” Kieran said affirmatively, with a nonchalant demeanor.

froze in disbelief, staring

in surprise, “Why

it said that he wanted to harm Julie years ago? But this recording seems to

really is Lucian?” Julie looked at Payne, finding it hard to accept the fact despite Kieran’s surety. The idea that a man who had been avoiding Kieran would send this recording and

that played was indeed

was scared when I first heard it, so I came over immediately,” Payne said to Kieran excitedly. “I thought you guys would never guess

I think the person who texted Julien

works? I want to clone one,” Payne looked at Kieran in admiration, “How

traces, not even. fingerprints, was very careful. The same goes

you guessed it was Lucian just from this? This only proves that the person is

just conclude from

was silly once again, and

ཨང མ ྃ

Julie laughed at

was in charge of everything. Noblewood Retreat, although inherited from our parents, was

tragic accident that took his parents, Lucian wanted to be an architect. That means he knew every brick and tile, every blade of grass, every tree, even every surveillance camera

Lucian’s until you started looking at me with

reason Kieran had agreed was Payne’s reaction had unintentionally given away

who arranged for Julie’s car accident last time was Lucian. If Lucian

then who wants to harm her?”

“Could it be Davina, the woman who kidnapped Julie last time?”

Davina’s condition when found, she must have been bedridden ever since she was shot the day she kidnapped me. We’ve checked everyone Davina’s been in contact with over the years, and

Julie that night was too professional, and even knew how to swim to escape. His reaction was too quick. A random hitman wouldn’t have performed so well, especially not in front

grandma about this for

Lucian, they didn’t want to disappoint her. After confirming that the voice in the recording was indeed Lucian’s, Payne couldn’t help but wave his hand, “I can’t take it anymore, my eyes must look like a panda’s by now. I’m going home to sleep!” He stuffed his laptop

“Did you

my

slept all night, and you still dare to ride?” Julie turned to Kieran, “You should rest here.