Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 289

Daphne couldn’t get through to Julie on the phone, just as she dialed her number, an icy robotic voice informed her, “Sorry, the number you’re trying to reach is currently busy…”

On the other end, Julie had just dialed Julien’s number.

Julie would never call Julien unless it was absolutely necessary. But she couldn’t help but worry since Hayden had left with her the night before. Luckily, Julien on the other end picked up the call swiftly.

“I’m still alive. That was the first thing Julien said.

Julie, standing at the crossroads, let out a sigh of relief, “I just wanted to ask if I should go collect your ashes…”

Julien, picking up her underwear from the floor, replied coldly, “When it’s time to collect it, I’ll come to you in your dreams.”

Before Julie could respond, the man lying next to Julien woke up.

Thus before she could say anything else, Julien told her, “I’m busy, gotta hang up.”

And then, the call was abruptly ended.

Julie stared at her disconnected call, not knowing how to react.

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“Where are you going?” Hayden’s voice was still laced with the laziness of just waking up.

The woman putting on her underwear was surprised to find… the buttons were long gone since last night. And her own clothes… were now adding a wild touch to the messy bedroom. To be precise, those weren’t clothes anymore, those were scraps!

She grabbed his oversized shirt, and before she could put it on, she felt a strong force pressing her down on the soft pillow. Hayden was now on top of her. Clearly, he had calculated how to immobilize her, so she was stuck in this position, unable to move.

Meanwhile, her eyes were covered by the black shirt, unable to see anything.

Then came Hayden’s deep, sexy voice from above, “You still haven’t answered me, where are you going?”

“How about I make a schedule and let Raines read it to you? I’ll detail every mealtime and bathroom break down to the second, what do you think?” Knowing she was no match for him, Julien didn’t even try to resist, she let him pin her down.

The events of last night, Julien wished she could delete them from her mind, clean and neat!

she was like a rose with thorns. Alluring and

stick with me for 24 hours, then you wouldn’t need a

a lifetime, I won’t have to see you again?” She asked with a

me to sleep with you for 24 hours to knock some sense into you?”

him was no

Julien’s smile was even deeper, she bit her lower lip and said, “Sure! I’ve been undercover for the National Security Agency for years, I’ve dealt

sentence was a powerful blow!

vast experience to provoke Hayden, but it also mocked him

his smile growing wider, “It seems that your ‘service’ is limited to sweet-talking

what it was? If she hadn’t sweet-talked him last night, she wouldn’t have ended up in

car, instead, she asked him, “Are you still in the business of breaking into people’s homes in

a panther hidden in the night, lurking in the dark, ready to tear her apart at any moment,

opened the passenger door

several ways to make her

back to his villa, pulling her hand, and entered his room. He didn’t give her a chance to resist all

her temper came from, she stood up and told him, Two people who don’t understand love, talking about love, don’t

Candles? Flowers?” He asked, “Or a

that okay?” She seldom smiled so gently,

want from me?” This was the most gentle and compromising tone he had ever used. It was as if she was the lover he held in his palm, he was trying

like ‘I love you’. You, Hayden, don’t have love, your interests always eclipse your love. You

then you match my

know me well, people change, probably the woman who matched you was an innocent silly girl. Obviously,

years ago, it was because we tried. We haven’t tried after all

you’ to me tonight is just to try?” As she spoke, she didn’t know where her temper came from, but she exploded as if she had been holding a

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for a long

in a few quick movements and threw it on the couch, telling him, “Hayden, I’ve put up with you for too long!” Julien was rarely angry, but when she

as she sneered, “Right, I’m the toy you won back. So you play with me when you’re in the mood and toss me aside for years when you’re not. My duty, my reason for living, is to keep you entertained.

resentment. At that time, he was only trying to control

you ever seen me, Hayden, trying to please a

to please her. Including his confession

it was impossible for him to say it directly. But he sincerely

after the shock, there seemed