Love's New Bloom by Simone Hastings

Chapter 82 Two–Faced

Holly’s question caught Erin by surprise. “Holly, from the looks of it, you’re more inclined to trust Chandler?”

“Something just feels off about the sudden turn of events. Your cousin stays over at the mansion for one night, and this happens. Isn’t it too much of a coincidence? Furthermore, Chandler is a man who has tons of beautiful women at his beck and call. Would he need to stoop so low as to force himself on your cousin?” Holly stood by Erin’s bedside, expounding the

situation.

Erin stopped and pondered on her words for a while as Holly continued, “It’s possible that Chandler was really feeling wronged to fly into such a rage.”

That elicited a dissatisfied response from Erin. “Hey, why are you taking his side? Who’s the one hospitalized now?”

Holly defended herself, “Erin, you know that I’m not taking his side. I just don’t want to jump to conclusions. Besides, I wasn’t there personally, so I didn’t see what happened, which is why I’m trying to make sense of the situation.”

“But May has no reason to lie to me. She’s just broken up…” Erin still chose to trust May.

Holly hesitated briefly before coming clean. “Your cousin claimed to not know who Chandler was. But here’s a piece of information you should know. I bumped into your cousin in a bar a while back and overheard her talking about Chandler with several of her friends then. As for how she got to know about Chandler, I have no idea.”

That statement did not sit particularly well with Erin, but still, she opted to believe that her cousin would never lie to her. It hadn’t even occurred to Erin that in his drunken state, Chandler might have mistaken May, who was wearing Erin’s nightdress, for Erin. It was also likely that his ego stopped him from acknowledging his mistake after he found out that he had mistaken May for Erin.

“I don’t want to talk about this anymore, Holly. I mean, it’s not entirely bad that I’ve moved out of the mansion. He’s too tyrannical, anyway. I’ve been feeling very oppressed there.” Erin recalled how savagely Chandler had punished her earlier on. It was as if he had lost his sanity. She still felt scared now that she thought back on it, and her wounds still ached from his rough ministrations.

was lying. But since Erin trusted

week later. The place they rented was

with James, so she moved out from

since she left the mansion, so Erin deleted his

had rejected

did not accept her resignation, yet, he did not want to see her. So she decided she might as well skip work. As she had just moved into a new place and needed to furnish the place with some

handling the online store. May used to ship out the orders for the online store together with her boyfriend, James Heigl. But now that they’ve broken up, James would no longer

together, she went to the balcony to collect the laundry which they had hung out to dry. They were mostly May’s,

be worth up to cost at least millions! Even if May saved up every penny of the money she earned, she would not be able to afford so many of them. She could not help wondering where

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cold. Erin thought that she

had the chance to

of the line.

doesn’t touch you enough,

him. He’s nowhere near as good as you are…Oh…

that she immediately ended the call. Erin flushed. She was sure that the woman was May. She

she saw in May’s wardrobe, she started to suspect that

no longer in love with May, there was no point in sticking her nose into their relationship. But now, she had a sudden urge to call James up to get to the bottom of why they broke up. Erin struggled with

her call. “Hello, Erin. I wasn’t expecting a call from

and May broke up? Did you