No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 396

Chapter 396

Chapter 396



His face was tight and cold, a stark contrast to any other time I'd seen him.

"Huh?" The man looked at me again, surprised. "Mistaken? No way, your fiancée is stunning. How could I..."

"My fiancée is at home with my parents," Conrad said, then strode off with long steps.

"Huh? It's not..." The man was still in shock, staring at my face, but as Conrad walked away, he hurried after him, muttering, "How can they look so alike? They could be the same person."

Conrad had left, sparing me the embarrassment of a lie, a move I hadn't anticipated.

Given his nature, I expected him to just admit the truth, embarrassing both me and Ernest even more.

But he didn't.

Even as he passed by me, he was indifferent, as if he truly didn't recognize me.

This Conrad seemed different, changed from before.

was the impatience that flared at the slightest provocation, now able to

that one time he showed up beneath my apartment, he

seemed he

had

His expression was unreadable, but thinking of the scene we'd just

speak, Ernest's other hand

or back in Seabreeze City,

encounter could have been avoided had I remembered the hotel was arranged by Jefferson. Conrad and Jefferson were close friends; it

and changing hotels now would seem too

had cast a silence between Ernest and me all the way to our

opened and I stepped inside, I was suddenly pulled back, and then came Ernest's

I had flirted

earlier, giving

im hints,

more than just that, perhaps...

looked at his heaving chest. "Ernest, you're bothered by

husky. "I

to refute

Conrad for ten years, planning a future

onto that," I started, then

Ernest's eyes suddenly narrowed, looking both