Under the heiress facade

Chapter 268

“My foot is fine. I can walk by myself,” Hera said.

Bernard retorted, “Stay still. When I was injured before, you took care of me. Now it’s my turn to take care of you.”

“But you didn’t ask me to help you bathe.”

Bernard paused in his steps as he looked deeply at Hera in his arms,

Only then did Hera realize she had spoken too impulsively. When she gave it more thought, she recalled that he didn’t ask for her help then.

However, she was getting the sense that he may have hinted at it before

Seeing her furrowed brow, Bernard spoke in a low voice, “I see you care a lot about that.”

He remembered the time they had been in the hot spring. Hera had suddenly approached him, and he pushed her away. She might have misunderstood. Although she didn’t say anything then, she still remembered that incident.

He wondered if she had ignored the fact that he was a normal man and couldn’t stand her teasing. He figured that if he refused again, Hera would probably ignore him in the

“Do you want to

was utterly shocked.

“Pervert!”

him away forcefully. Escaping from his arms, she hurried into the bathroom and

looked at the closed

that not it? He found it harder and harder to understand Hera’s thoughts.

the curtains of the single room were tightly drawn. An old light bulb cast a yellowish glow across the room. The 30- inch

phone. Her eyes were hollow, with dried tears in the corners of her

the screen in her hand it up. It was

a message from

agreed. Send the memory card to this address first”

eyes suddenly

“Can hand it to

“No,” Piglet replied.

were looking for her now. Queenie said she

card was her last straw. She didn’t know its contents but knew that it must be important if Queenie went through the trouble of deleting and tampering with the data.