Rewriting My Heart's Fate

hapter 271

Liam stopped the car, walked over quickly, and looked at me with concem.

"What happened? Why are you here?"

took a deep breath in an attempt to calm the turmoil in my heart, but the uncontainable bitterness within had poured over like an overflowed darr

1 smiled tauntly, pretending that nothing had happened. Not everything needed to be on display. I channeled my mental fortitale to pretend that nothing head happened just so he could open up and tell me the truth. "Nothing much, l'an just lost."

He frowned. He didn't seem to believe my excuse, but he didn't probe further.

How likely was I to lose my way here? Other than coming to the traysons, why else would I be here?

Iknew he must really want to know the awer, but I had just found out the truth about him and was drowning in palin

It felt like a knife had stabbed deep in my heart. The pain was so great I couldn't even muster a smile.

He got out of the car, came around, and opened the door for me with a touch of gentleness in his gaze. There was no trace of his previous badgering

expected, great pretenders could always find a chance to protect themselves in the most dangerous of situations. They could

bring

a chance for the

since it was only

"Ortin, and you back"

still got into

that nothing had happened

do. I didn't want to waste my time on

was more eager to know

was so silent that all that we could hear were the car's air conditioner and the occasional wind from outside

fly backward quickly as

first time I was here on this road when I thought I was finally able to be

only later that I found out that I was abandoned and unwanted. If my own father didn't love me, who else

to have sensed the shift in my emotions. He murmured softly in my ear,

way.

one who had brought agony to me. A lot of the times, that was how people were. They would have created many opportunities to do evil but would still pretend