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.

I voiced my own theory. "You're saying you

Allen find out

then remembered that Dustin wasn't truly aligned with Allen. So even if Dustin knew Ernest's real identity, he hadn't

ringleader, you know?" Ernest's revelation

about Deborah at the Sapphire Lounge so easily. "And here I thought Phipps was just an ordinary male model, not the mastermind of vice," I was genuinely

the top

whose reach extends across dozens of countries," Ernest spoke

grave tone.

syndicate with international reach suggested immense power behind the

was so beautiful, yet these parasites sought to

but the thought of someone with a face like his being involved in crimes against women

my unease. "What's

head,

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

but shock, horror, and a

would remain oblivious to the filth hiding