Chapter 145
“L-Leo?”
Hesitantly, she turned to Leo with trembling lips. Wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, the man standing in front of her fashioned a short buzz cut and had a rather stumpy physique.
His face was rounded, coupled with a pair of crafty eyes. On both sides of his lips was some facial hair, and he looked a little like a successful person.
While others didn’t know who he was, Elyse knew him very well.
But the more she knew, the more terrified she was. Her ears rumbled, and she was so weak that she lost the strength to stand upright.
Her legs turned wobbly. She wasn’t sure how much Leo had found out. Hence, she could only try to deduce from his facial expression.
Leo had awakened from his drunken stupor from earlier, and his handsome face was void of all emotions. His eyes were deep like an ocean, and his lips were pursed into a line. He did not urge her for clarification.
However, a thick cloud of cold air shrouded him, and it engulfed her silently, taking her breath away.
Her fingers tightened and loosened repeatedly, and she gritted her teeth as she decided to bluff her way through. No matter how much he found out, it will be okay as long as I don’t admit to anything!
So, she put up a confused and pathetic stance. “Who’s this gentleman? Why did you bring him to my place so late at night?”
As an actor, she could easily put her acting skills to use even at a time like this effortlessly masking the nervousness she was feeling a second ago with a sweet smile.
didn’t immediately expose
been, but the owner of this face was so strange to him that he could no longer recognize
act irresponsibly in the past, she would at least speak honestly, unlike now where she was still trying to play dumb when the person
“This is Elliot, the one who was interviewed.
anything in them, but the flash of sharp light he emitted seemed to indicate him having read her mind a
was!
end to Elyse’s pretense. She
gaze was indifferent. Despite knowing that Elyse would be completely exposed if “Elliot” opened his mouth he didn’t ask him to do so because he wanted her to admit it herself that she was the
Elyse could also tell
but when her
lip tightly out of embarrassment, she didn’t want to say anything, and neither could she bring herself to
he let her confront
it would
had waned, many people were still watching her because
only spell trouble
looked up at him with puppy eyes. “Leo, I was wrong. I made a mistake, okay? I asked him to pretend to be Elliot for the interview because I feel so insecure. Recently, Amelie has been constantly popping up in our lives, and you keep your relationship with her ambiguous. I’m scared, Leo. I’m scared that she’ll snatch you from me.” Right in front of “Elliot”, she even went on tiptoes and placed her arms around Leo’s neck. “Leo, I’d lost you for four years. Do you have any idea how I spent those four years? Every night, I had nightmares
away and
forehead, he then waved to the bodyguards standing outside. They understood his order and dragged “Elliot”
dragged him away, but he kept looking back, saying, “Mr. Alston, I’m begging you. Please let me go! Miss Clayton promised me a million if I can successfully upset you. I was overtaken by greed for a second, that’s why I… But I didn’t harm
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