The Double ( or More ?) Life of The Fake Heiress

Chapter 318

When Mirabella stepped out of Nikolal’s shop, Nature’s Apothecary, she decided to pick up some spices to round off her shopping spree. Just as she dropped the last packet into her tote, her cell buzzed in her pocket. It was James on the line.

“Alright, I’m at the corner. I’ll be out in a sec.” Mirabella slipped her phone back into her bag and soon left the bustling farmers‘ market. She spotted the sleek black sedan waiting at the curb almost immediately. Striding over, she pulled open the back door and gracefully slid into the

seal.

Wyatt, the driver, greeted her with increasing deference, “Good afternoon, Ms. Mirabella.”

“Hello, Wyatt,” she replied with a polite nod.

Turning to James, Mirabella noticed he seemed back to his usual self. A playful squint crossed her eyes as she teased, “You mentioned a tightness in your chest yesterday?”

Tightness in the chest? Wyatt glanced at them, puzzled. He hadn’t heard James mention anything of the sort.

James, unflustered, gave a nonchalant hum and even feigned a cough while pressing his chest. “Just give me your hand,” Mirabella instructed.

James extended his arm toward her. Mirabella shifted slightly toward the center seat and expertly placed her fingers on his pulse, her gaze softening.

touch on his wrist vanished, and

his hand. “Yeah, I thought it

waving off the

paper bag beside her. Feigning casual

against the car door. “Wake me up when we get to the diner.”

“Sure thing.”

Mirabella was now a figure of even greater importance than James. Her title as a top–tier apothecary would have the

rearview mirror, marveling at how James

an hour later, they pulled up to the entrance of the diner. James turned

1/2

11:30

stirring, her eyes still misty with sleep.

voice raspy, she asked,

“Yeah.”

the trio made their way to a private booth on

ordering, the waiter left them to their privacy.