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

bet memory was pulled back to that night His narrow wall,

done voering?

in his eyes, coupled with his hall–smile,

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

with a plastic

at the hag before it was placed right in front of

when you get

the bag She bit her lip hard when

used protection during the last

felt increasingly

hadn’t agreed earlier and brought it up again, “Can you just pretend that

no choice but to wait until

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

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

hathway down the road, Whitney watched Noel’s car drive away. This man’s mind

she said that attended him.

anyone to know what had happened that night either. That meant they

company. He called Whatury once,

“I

wete,”

as long as you’re back at the company Their’s a new bag from Dior vehitset home. See if you like

why he had disappeared. He chose to avoid that subject and quickly changed the topic, even trying

their engaertsend sin onths ago. They loved

to be intimate with her before

in fronted Bandan, tying his

Done Savoning…

her arm. “Whitney, what do

a stark contrast to how she had behaved by the pool

Damian, in a gray suit and white shirt, was wearing a crooked

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

gave it to Damian, he immediate had het sie it for him and didn’t take

on the floor, Rachel particked. “I’m sorry, Whitney. I didn’t know this was your gift to Uscle Damlan

but Whitney saw no sincerity in her

with a smile. “You two carry on.”

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