No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 209



"I dunno!"

Ernest delivered his succinct three-word response with a crisp efficiency.

Yet, I couldn't help but laugh, "You don't know, and yet here you are, knocking on my door?"

Ernest, busy tucking the freshly chopped vegetables onto a plate for later use, responded without missing a beat, "The lady downstairs told me, said my girlfriend was back."

I was speechless.

Sipping my tea, I admired the sight of a man cooking, when Ernest suddenly turned his head to catch my gaze. "What are you doubting?"

I offered a faint smile, "Doubting... that you're stalking me."

"Hmm?" He frowned slightly.

"Just kidding. I know you're not that idle," I said, returning to the living room to enjoy my tea.

After a few sips and a brief stint on my phone, sleepiness crept up on me, and before I knew it, I had dozed off.

In my dream, I was caught by a bald man, Lord instructed him to kill me. As I desperately shook my head, a long knife was thrust towards me... "Licia! Licia, wake up..." Ernest's anxious voice and his firm hands steadying my head woke me up.

was deep

for air. Remembering the bald man who had cornered Ernest, I grabbed his hand, "The bald guy who ambushed you, he's

furrowed deeper, "How do you

tightened my grip on his hand,

not yours. Understand?" His tone was serious, even

I wasn't trying to meddle in his business; I was

speak up, Ernest continued, "Lord is dangerous. You mustn't

in silence, the words stuck in my

from my brow, "Get up and have some water, and then

to leave, but I

well aware of

the company, and there were whispers about how he made his fortune and expanded his empire over

looked down at my hand holding

bent down to settle me comfortably, then

was comforting, easing the panic from

to

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out with plates of food and soup. I took a couple of sips from

yesterday, running around today investigating, atop a nightmare, made me feel

noticing something amiss, asked, "Feeling

wanted to act tough and deny it, but Ernest

out, assuring, "I'm right outside, call