No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

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.

attempt, I voiced my own theory. "You're saying you got hurt to make

couldn't let Allen find out I was pretending

identity, he hadn't told Allen. "And who exactly is Phipps?" I

know?" Ernest's

the ringleader. No wonder he could uncover secrets about Deborah at the Sapphire Lounge

not the

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

grave tone.

with international reach suggested

so beautiful, yet these parasites sought

ran down my spine, not because of Ernest, but the thought of someone with a face like his being

sensed my unease.

head, urging him

reading

wasn't fear, but shock, horror,

me, I would remain oblivious to the filth hiding behind the