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

an instant, bet memory was pulled back to that night His narrow wall, the defined contours of bas

done

in his eyes, coupled with his hall–smile, made whitney’s face

and the driver got out to enter a

out with a plastic bag and

before it was placed right in

you get

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

Erotient, he hadn’t used protection during the last round that

Whitney felt increasingly uncomfortable. “I’ll

how he hadn’t agreed earlier and brought it up again, “Can

choice but to wait until

manute Liter, he hung up instead of answering her question, he coldly said, “We’re not heading the same way. Get out.”

give her a ride, but now, he

Whitney watched Noel’s car drive away. This man’s

She wasn’t sure what she said that attended him.

what had happened

the company. He called Whatury once, asking why she had left

“I

where you wete,” Whitney

the company Their’s a new bag from Dior

changed the topic, even

Chemoved in with Damian after their engaertsend sin onths ago. They loved under the inte

saying herosädn’t bear to be intimate with her

in fronted Bandan, tying his tie with a

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her arm. “Whitney, what do

demeanor was a stark contrast to how

a gray suit and white shirt,

pattern that Whitmer had personally picked out was discarded at the foot

he immediate had het sie it for him and

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

saw no sincerity in

said with a smile. “You two carry on.”

Don’t overthink a “Damian blocked her path. “Rachel gave it as a