Under the heiress facade

Hera was still typing when she felt, rather than saw, Bernard approaching her and surreptitiously hid her phone.

"You look so serious. What's on your mind?"

Bernard stopped next to her and kissed her on the forehead.

"Nothing," she lied.

"I'm reading."

"You're holding the book upside down," he pointed out with faint amusement.

She glanced at the book and realized he was right. Sheer pride kept her lying through her teeth.

"I was practicing reading upside down!"

Bernard raised a brow.

He took the book from her and asked, "So, did anything interesting happen today that I should know about?"

Hera was suddenly reminded of what Tyler had told her earlier that day.

Indeed, how would she know if Bernard wasn't lying to her? Even without Tyler's prompting, she had already sensed that Bernard was keeping secrets from her. Then again, she kept secrets from him, too, so they were even.

she agreed to exchange numbers with Tyler but archived

course.

couldn't handle,"

sudden thought

piece of information, though. Word on the street is that your engagement with Ms. Chime has become viral news

if I revealed Ms. Chime's true colors

started the rumor of Bernard's alleged engagement to Camille. They did not put it in the papers, but the ladies of leisure had taken it upon themselves to spread the word. There was nothing Bernard could do to suppress the

Hera's hand

colors? I could do it for you so

Hera laughed.

I'd like to be hands-on

to catch up on sleep, only to be woken up by the commotion in the clinic. She put on a change of

and the south wing was in a mess. Leon was pinning a maniacal patient on the ground at the moment. One of the nurses sported a bump on the forehead, and Everly held a

pointing a finger at Catherine and

about her condition. She needs to go to a

man snarled, "She's not on drugs! She's just sick! If you call her a drug addict one more time,

wielded his fist and made to punch Catherine's face. He was stopped

gaze trailed from the hand to the person's face, only to see a pretty young lady standing before

are you? Let go of me!" he barked,

and he could not summon any strength to it. Hera dropped his arm and glanced at the woman Leon had

as she mumbled,