Chapter 491:

“Ah! It hurts! Let go!” Linda shrieked, tears brimming in her eyes.

“Hadley!”

Eric rushed forward, grabbing Hadley’s wrist. “Let go! Now!”

Nyla and Ernest were still waiting!

But Hadley didn’t let go. Didn’t even flinch.

Eric had no choice but to tighten his grip, prying Hadley’s fingers from Linda’s hair.

She hesitated for a second, then let out a low, bitter laugh. “You two really know how to put on a show.”

“Hadley!”

“What?”

Eric’s jaw tightened, his usually controlled expression clouded with frustration. His eyes burned with something unreadable—something dangerously close to fury.

think I’m that

“Absolutely.”

cutting like a blade. “What’s wrong? The truth too much for you? Or are you just too

“Hadley!”

eyes locked. His gaze was unreadable, but the weight behind it pressed into her like a

you saw me this way. If that’s how you feel, why did you even say yes when I

just as abruptly, he let go and turned

“Eric, wait!”

scrambled after him, fingers fumbling to fix

stood frozen, the moment replaying in

exhale, she knocked her forehead

acted purely on

thinking? How could she have let the truth slip

how was she supposed to

next two days, Eric didn’t call

he sent to the

shake the question nagging at the back of her mind—was this

Was their arrangement over?

him. That

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