Chapter 1182

"Help you?" Leonard let out a mocking laugh. "You're nothing more than a plaything for him-a little amusement when he's bored.

All this so-called 'help' you think you're getting? It's just a few well-chosen words for him. That's all it's ever been.

Rachel, you seriously overestimate yourself.

He knew you were a fraud from the very beginning."

Leonard and Joshua were cut from the same cloth-when it came to manipulating people, Leonard could write the rulebook.

Rachel was never much of a liar. She could fool Simone and Aurora, perhaps, but trying to deceive men like them-men who'd clawed their way out of hell-was laughable.

Leonard looked down at Rachel, his gaze cold and superior. "Tell me, Rachel, did it ever occur to you that a man as ruthless as Joshua wouldn't fall hopelessly in love with you just because you played a pretty tune?

If he were really that easy to handle, do you think you'd have ended up like this?" The truth was becoming crystal clear to Leonard.

All that talk about "the one that got away" or "seeking redemption"-it was nothing more than a story Joshua spun for his own amusement.

and Simone would ever buy into

never even seen. What if she turned out to be plain, or horribly ugly, or

because they'd actually talked; she'd

that violinist

No-she'd just played a song in the garden, nothing


her face, maybe you

he ever saw was her back, all he

honestly believed that a single song and a fleeting silhouette were enough to ensnare someone like

Ignorance truly is bliss.

Leonard watched Rachel's face

of color, then added

around was to use you

s

thought

mind, all the old mysteries suddenly making

the truth-that she'd been a

I'm nothing but a joke to Joshua, why did he come to find me in person? Why

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