Chapter 162



"I figured you'd come looking if you got worried. I left it for you," Ernest replied with an ease that seemed second nature to him.

But in a moment of brain fog, I blurted out, "So, stepping out looking like that was on purpose?"

Ernest's Adam's apple bobbed, "No, I heard my phone ringing and thought to answer it. Didn't expect... well, this."

Yeah, just this kind of coincidence.

Lucky for me, he was in great shape. Eye candy, for sure.

On the way to the Wagners', Ernest kept quiet. Thinking he was nervous, I said, "At the Wagners', just a hello will do. Leave the talking to me."

Ernest just nodded, "Mm."

"If Conrad's there and starts any trouble or makes things difficult, don't hold back," I instructed.

Ernest affirmed, "Alright."

Harbor. You... took a liking to me and followed me there," I

"I shouldn't

I didn't quite catch his drift at first,

me speechless, so we continued in

made the atmosphere all wrong. Feeling tense, my driving became jittery, and just my luck, some idiot

wheel and jerked it, angling the car at 45 degrees to avoid a

took me a moment to snap out of my daze. His quick thinking

eyes on the road. Crashing is one thing, but getting hurt is another," Ernest chided, then straightened the car

for three years, yet I felt utterly

silence for a while, I

Zurdriving skills are incredib

you a driver

him curiously, "Then what?"

know Special Forces meant being at the forefront of action, which was undeniably

had that

radiated a tough resilience that was

become a SWAT

which made me think of

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