Side Chick Era... Over

Chapter 869

Thomas said flatly, “Yes, she did deceive me.”

Sharon let out a soundless sigh. “When you learned the truth, were you very disappointed?”

“I actually realized long ago she wasn’t the real one,” Thomas replied. “But at the time, my insomnia was unbearable. I thought maybe hearing her violin again would ease it.”

As for his savior…

A faint, mocking curve tugged at the corner of his lips, hidden by the shadows of the night.

How could a guy like him possibly become so enthralled by a single melody, ready to follow someone blindly? That story of a “life-saving benefactor” was nothing more than a palatable excuse for outsiders, a way to appear human, less cold-blooded and merciless than he truly

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Sharon seemed to catch his meaning. “So you used her as an emotional anchor, pretending she was real?”

a lifetime,

her expression calm, showing no confusion or

don’t think what I just said

answered evenly. “Your thoughts

“Why?” he pressed.

if we’re being honest, she didn’t really do anything. Her

life and nursed him carefully afterward. Compared to that, someone who only happened to play a

best, it was naïve. At worst,

bluntness. He asked without thinking, “If that person were you, what

you

“I’d accept gratitude, but that would be the

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a phrase, ‘a debt of gratitude as heavy as a mountain.’ But if I hadn’t truly done anything-if it was nothing more than an unintentional act-then bearing such a weight would only

ever considered that such a debt could

anyone who helps another does so out of simple kindness, not