No longer a pushover

Chapter 578

If there really was nothing between Laura and Cedric, why did she have his phone?

Cedric recounted, "I was rushing to get my grandmother to the hospital. I must have dropped my phone there, and she picked it up. But I didn't know she answered your call. She never told me."

"How am I supposed to believe that?" Noelle looked at him calmly, but her heart ached.

She continued, "I never doubted you. But you lied to me for so long. Once trust is broken, it can never be the same again."

Cedric panicked. "Noelle, it's not like that. I didn't mean to hide my identity from you."

"Oh? Then tell me why." Noelle wanted to hear the reason.

Cedric met her gaze but couldn't bring himself to talk about the accident all those years ago. Noelle once said that she hated the driver and the person in the back seat.

Cedric finally understood the pain of a broken heart.

His grandmother was right. He should have told Noelle from the beginning. But now, he couldn't because he didn't want to lose her he was trapped between a rock and a hard place with no way of turning things around.

stared at him. "Say it. Why did you lie

Cedric remained silent.

of their difference in status. That was why he had hidden

the boxing gloves and handed them to him. "Take these

boxing

they fell to the

gloves The bright

Noelle's hand, but shee

away before he could

was wrong, but I don't want to

Noelle's expression remained

remained eerily

"Arelationship built on

Dr. Greene, not the heir of the Greene

her eyes and felt as if he was trapped.

Noelle. She might seem gentle, but she rarely changed