Chapter 1038:

The truth? Meeting the parents was only part of the plan. The real reason was to find out Ellis’s childhood nickname.

The last time she brought it up, he claimed he didn’t have one—which was suspicious enough. But when she asked Alyssa about it later, she dodged the question.

That sealed it.

Ellis raised an eyebrow. “You seriously expect me to believe that?”

“Believe it or not,” Freya huffed. “Why ask if you’re just going to doubt me?”

Ellis chuckled.

Freya narrowed her eyes. What was so funny?

Ellis looked at her, clearly amused. “Want me to pull up some couple fight videos? You can study the body language—maybe sharpen your acting.”

Freya crossed her arms. “You think I’m pretending to be mad?”

evaluating. “You’d probably

“Ellis Lambert!”

“Hmm?”

Her voice was cool, firm—with a note

was determined to stand her ground

now and then. She

argue.

𝓵𝖆𝓉𝓔𝓢𝓣 ςհ𝓪ρ𝓽𝖊𝗋𝓈 𝗀𝖺Ⱡn𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝓈․ⅽ𝗼𝗺

wasn’t how a

his eyes twinkling with curiosity and

She looked up instinctively.

realize there’s a pretty big flaw in your

She frowned. “What flaw?”

doing a convincing job,

“Who

Freya glanced down.

was still sitting on

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