The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 1069

After Veronica finished speaking, the person on the other end of the call responded, “Is that Veronica? Your brother’s still snoozing, do you need something? Should I shake him awake? Or you wanna ring later?”

It clicked for Veronica after she heard the person say her name. This person obviously knew a lot about her brother. She sounded quite familiar, but she couldn’t make out who it was. She wasn’t sure if it was someone she knew.

But in front of Ellinor, Veronica felt like she shouldn’t say too much, “Nah, nothing urgent. I’ll call back later.”

After saying that, she quickly hung up the phone, then looked up to see Ellinor’s reaction.

Any other woman would probably snatch the phone and grill whoever the hell was on the other end. Why was she answering her husband’s call? Some women would even start cussing

But Ellinor didn’t react.

She just calmly averted her eyes, not saying a word.

she’d stepped in it and tried to hastily explain for her brother, “Ellinor, don’t get the wrong idea! That woman is probably just my brother’s personal assistant abroad! Collin didn’t go on this

“So an assistant can just waltz into your brother’s room while he’s still sleeping and answer his

I bet she did it on purpose! My brother probably doesn’t know! My brother is quite attractive, but he would never do anything out of line!”

you want to trust your brother, then trust him. I’m gonna go take

straight into the house, and went upstairs to

there, feeling like she’d stepped in it again. After Ellinor had left, she pulled out her phone and

Theo picked up.

“What’s up?”

was cool and deep,

voice with her brother, cautiously asking, “Bro, did you just wake

and

breath, “Bro, who was that woman who

silent for a while before he coldly said, “It’s night over there; aren’t you going to sleep? Why

so she quickly explained, “No,