Chapter 742

My nose crinkled as Ernest tapped it twice with his finger. "Can't you just play dumb for once?"

I shook my head side to side with a playful grin. "No dodging. Be honest with me."

Ernest gently held my face, stopping my movements. "Stop that, or you'll make yourself dizzy."

"Then tell me why," I insisted, looking directly into his eyes.

Ernest had a tell; his eyes would lose focus when he was lying. Oddly enough, I hadn't noticed it when he claimed he didn't love me.

"You know who's really behind the accident, don't you?" he said, fiddling with my eyelashes.

His words confirmed my suspicions that he knew the truth.

"Licia, your lashes are as long as they were when you were a child," he tried to divert the conversation.

saying you got hurt

"I couldn't let Allen find

Dustin knew Ernest's real identity, he hadn't told Allen. "And who exactly is Phipps?" I pressed, recalling Ernest's earlier

you know?" Ernest's

at the Sapphire Lounge so easily. "And here I thought Phipps was just an ordinary male model, not the

not the top

the real leader, whose reach extends across dozens of countries," Ernest spoke

grave tone.

international reach suggested immense

world was so beautiful, yet these parasites

because of Ernest, but the thought of someone with a face like his being involved in crimes against women filled me with

sensed my

my head, urging him

had a knack for reading my emotions, even when I didn't

horror, and a

told me, I would remain oblivious to the filth hiding

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