When Love Is a Lie

Chapter 5 Done Savoring

Whitney Telt İmam, her body still from head to toe. A fine kryer of sweat formed on her back.

Noel did recognize her!

The driver had already opened the back door of the car. Noel didn’t look at her again. He sat down inside, leaving the door open

He was obnously waiting for her.

Feeling goby, Whitney didn’t want anyone to notice anything unusual, so she steeled herself and got into the car

“Whereto, Ma. Spencer?” the driver asked

“Howard Group, please” Whaney replied.

After she spoke, theea fell into pin–drop silence.

She pressed herself against the car door, lewing enough space between her and Noel for another r Whitney curled her hands on her lip. “Thank you for saving me earlier

Noel for another person to sit. The atmosphere was so awkward it almost suffocating.

Nord sat with his legs crossed while leaning apamut the back of the chair as he looked at the design dratts on his tablet. His dark casual attire did nothing to diminish hi distinguished presence. For a long time, there was no ply

That night was chaotic, and Whitney felt she should explain hersel

She gathered her courage, cleared her throat, and began, “Thad too much to drink that night, so I’m sorry.”

She turned toward him, her palms a lime sweaty. “Can you just pertend nothing-

“Did you like the pill?” Noel suddenly interrupted her without even lifting his head.

“What Whimey was condused

Noel hated his head trom his tablet. His deep, dark eyes behind silver–framed glasses met hers.

Up close and with the daylight, Whitney noticed how striking his eyes were. His lang, dark lashes framed the deep pools of his pupils, allering in their depth and pull

Her gaze dropped. She noticed his Adam’s apple slightly visible under the collar of his shirt, the solid build of his shoulders wrapped in the shirt, and the firm chest beneath

was pulled back to that night His narrow wall, the

you done voering?

with his hall–smile, made whitney’s

at the roadside, and the driver got out to enter a nearby

plastic bag

before it was placed

get home,” Noel

bit her lip hard when she saw what was inside. It was

hadn’t used protection during the

since filled the car again. Whitney felt increasingly uncomfortable. “I’ll take

recalled how he hadn’t agreed earlier and brought it up

but to wait until

answering her question, he coldly said, “We’re not heading the

to give her a ride, but now, he was saying it

Whitney watched Noel’s car drive away. This man’s mind was revilly

she

didn’t want anyone to know what had happened that night either. That

He called Whatury once, asking why she had left without waiting

“I

where you wete,”

company Their’s a new bag from Dior vehitset home. See if

to avoid that subject and quickly changed the topic, even trying to

engaertsend sin onths ago. They loved under

be intimate with her before manage

his tie

Done

quickly stepped forward, taking her arm. “Whitney, what do you think? Does this the look

stark contrast to how she had behaved

gray suit and white shirt, was wearing a crooked

the with a subtle pattern that Whitmer had personally picked

remembered how, when she gave it to Damian, he immediate had het sie it for him and didn’t take it off for several days

“I’m sorry, Whitney. I didn’t know this was your gift to Uscle Damlan

apologized, but Whitney saw no sincerity in her eyes.

“You two carry on.” With

a tie. Don’t overthink a “Damian blocked her path. “Rachel gave it as a gift to thank me