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.

that flared at the slightest provocation, now

he showed up beneath my

seemed he had moved

Ernest had already

to the present, I looked at him. His expression was unreadable, but thinking of the

for him, but before I could speak, Ernest's other hand gently

here or back in Seabreeze City,

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

here, and changing

silence between Ernest and me all the way to

door opened and I stepped inside, I was

had flirted with

earlier, giving

hints,

more than just that, perhaps...

for air, and rested his forehead against mine. I looked at his heaving chest. "Ernest, you're

apple bobbed, his voice husky. "I mind that he once had

to refute the

ten years, planning a future together.

onto that,"

narrowed, looking