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.

"You're saying you got hurt to make

Allen find out I was pretending to be

he hadn't told Allen. "And who exactly is Phipps?" I pressed, recalling Ernest's earlier vague mentions. Now that Phipps seemed pivotal,

know?" Ernest's

he could uncover secrets about Deborah at the Sapphire Lounge so easily. "And here I thought Phipps was just an ordinary male model, not the mastermind

not the

leader, whose reach extends across dozens of countries,"

grave tone.

crime syndicate with international reach suggested immense power behind

beautiful, yet these parasites sought to ruin

of someone with a face like his being involved in crimes against women filled me with dread

sensed my unease. "What's

head, urging him to

had a knack for reading my emotions, even when I

horror, and

remain oblivious to the