No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Haley's face turned a sickly shade of pale as my words hit her like a freight train. She shook her head vigorously, "No, that's not it at all. You're just trying to smear my name over the amusement park inheritance."

Conrad, standing beside her, glared daggers at her, gripping her wrist tightly, "Is that true, Haley? Tell me."

"No, I didn't, Conrad. Every time, it was you who initiated things," Haley retorted, her voice rising in desperation.

Conrad's face turned a shade of thunder, and tears began streaming down Haley's cheeks. She turned to me, "Felicia, you see, Conrad is the one at fault here. He knows exactly what happened between us; he was the one who came onto me from the start."

"Scumbag! Murderer! Shameless..."

The crowd around us began throwing insults at Conrad, and some women even went as far as hitting him.

"Stop," a commanding voice suddenly cut through the chaos.

Ernest emerged from the crowd, a smartphone in hand. He walked up to Haley and Conrad, said nothing, and simply played a recording.

[...Just drive out suddenly at that time... even if something happens, no one can trace it back to you. You didn't hit him, didn't even scratch him...]

[This was all my sister's plan. She said once it's done, I'd be Conrad's brother-in-law, set for life...]

Perez's voice on

all color as she shook her head vehemently, still denying,

Let the police decide what's true," Ernest concluded, as the crowd began to turn on

that's a crime too,"

to hurling

arrived, and Haley was taken away,

car, while Conrad stood there, looking utterly lost,deaving only Dustin to manage the

knew the truth all along, why wait until now to speak up?" Dustin asked

kind and gentle,

shifted uncomfortably under my

that knowing the truth obligates one to reveal

left him

stepped forward today, how would

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