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.

impatience that flared at the slightest provocation, now able to feign ignorance and pass

from that one time he showed up beneath my apartment, he

seemed he had

thoughts, Ernest had already guided me

present, I looked at him. His expression was unreadable, but thinking of the scene we'd just left,

speak, Ernest's other hand gently tousled my hair. "It's alright. Things like this might happen

in Seabreeze City,

had I remembered the hotel was arranged by Jefferson. Conrad and Jefferson were close friends; it

already here, and changing hotels now

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

was suddenly

had

earlier, giving

hints, his kiss

more than just that, perhaps...

his forehead against mine. I looked at his heaving chest. "Ernest, you're bothered by my past with Conrad,

Adam's apple bobbed, his voice husky. "I

unable to refute

years, planning a future together. That

onto that," I

narrowed,