No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

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."

took a liking to me and followed me there," I

"I shouldn't

I didn't quite catch his drift at first,

so we continued in

all wrong. Feeling tense, my driving became jittery, and just my luck, some idiot ahead slammed on the brakes,

quickly, grabbed the steering wheel and jerked it, angling the

my daze. His quick thinking and action felt

getting hurt is another," Ernest chided,

three years, yet I

driving in silence for a while, I finally composed

Zurdriving skills are incredib

driver in the

him curiously, "Then

the specifics, but I'd seen enough TV to know Special Forces meant being at the forefront of action, which was undeniably

that cool

resilience that was

Why not become a SWAT

away, which made me think