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.

that it was highly likely that May was the one who was lying.

and May found a place to stay a week later. The place they rented

broken up with James, so she

contacted Erin since she left the mansion, so Erin deleted his

her to tell her that Chandler had rejected her resignation. However, he also

decided she might as well skip work. As she had just moved into a new place and needed to furnish the place with some new furniture and appliances, she was happy for

was still in her junior year of college and had to go back to school, so Erin was also in charge of 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

for May to come home to have dinner together, she went to the balcony to collect the

it to put away the clothes. Erin estimated the entire wardrobe to 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 May got all the

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food had gone cold. Erin thought that she would give May a call to

was quickly picked up, but before she even had the chance to speak, she heard

of the line.

your boyfriend doesn’t touch

Stop talking about him. He’s nowhere near

Erin flushed. She was sure that the

the designer bags she saw in May’s wardrobe, she started to suspect that May had been seeing

of view, if James was 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 herself for five minutes before

up her call. “Hello, Erin. I wasn’t

why you and May