No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 823

He had the audacity to blame everything on me, and now, he's even doing this as some form of twisted revenge.

"If you hate me so much, wouldn't taking me away and torturing me be more satisfying?" I couldn't let Fanny get hurt.

"I can't bear to do that. Can't bring myself to hurt you, so I'll just leave you here to torture yourself," Dustin said, twisting the knife with his words.

Recalling what he'd just said, I let out a faint, sarcastic smile. "Well, you might be mistaken. You just said it yourself, I have no conscience, I'm a piece of work. I tossed aside a ten-year relationship without a second thought, so what's a friend to me?"

I painted myself as cold-hearted because Dustin was only targeting Fanny because he knew I cared about her.

If I could make Dustin believe I didn't care, maybe he'd leave Fanny alone.

"Dustin chuckled, "Felicia, don't think that by saying this, I'll let your friend go. I've known you too well for too long to fall for that."

wasn't

and looked over at Ernest. Maybe I could count on him now, but the way he looked at me was unfamiliar, like he wasn't my Ernest at

Ernest telling me that Phipps was no longer around,

it was Ernest or Phipps, they shouldn't

couldn't figure out what was going on, so all I could do was gamble. Gamble that Ernest or Phipps was just temporarily cooperating with Dustin and had another plan in

of a

wore that calm, composed expression, as if she weren't being kidnapped but heading off on

to make any sudden moves or try anything funny, or your

his

"What

women have a strong intuition, but