No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 88



"Ernest, what's your game here? Blackmailing me with our past and last night's events, is that it?" I confronted him.

"No," he muttered, avoiding my gaze.

His evasion was a clear indication of his guilt. I clenched my fists, feeling a sudden urge to give him a piece of my mind, physically.

"I'm a stranger in these parts, what's wrong with asking for a little help? I've had your back before," Ernest spoke up again, his voice tinged with vulnerability.

It felt as though by not helping him, I'd be the one betraying a debt of gratitude.

Debts, whether of money or of favors, always come due.

I sighed. "Alright, Mr. Collins, where would you like to go today? Got any shopping to do? Just tell me, and we'll head out."

"I was thinking of apartment hunting," he said, catching me off guard.

"Apartment hunting? I thought you were just here temporarily?" I asked, puzzled.

"I might not be going back, so I thought I'd look around in advance," Ernest's words felt like a punch to the gut.

the feeling, but

isn't even here,"

resign!" he

I was speechless.

I'm looking to rent. I can't afford to buy right now," Ernest confessed without a hint of embarrassment about

put on a show, flaunting what they don't have to keep up appearances, Ernest was an open book about his

your job?" I

didn't respond, probably lost

stirred my sympathy, and before I knew it, I was driving him

rent here must

a killer. For an engineer like you, aiming to work in this area, finding a place in the

could lend you some money, pay me

an arrangement with me?" Ernest's reply took me

glared at him, thinking

us, and the thought that he might have considered marrying me once,4 scoffed, "Wishful thinking. I'm holding out

face clouded over, and as I started the

soon as we arrived at a real

"You go ahead and look around. I've got an emergency." "What happened?" he asked, not

Need

my downstairs neighbor, informing me that water was