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

to that

you done

The dangerous look in his eyes, coupled with his hall–smile, made whitney’s face bun with

and the driver got

became out with a plastic

before it was placed right in

you get home,”

bag She bit her lip hard when she saw what

hadn’t used protection during the last round that might

Whitney felt increasingly

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

to wait until he was done

answering her question, he

her a ride, but now, he was saying it

the road, Whitney watched Noel’s car drive

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

had happened that night either. That meant they had

afternoon passed without Damian returning to the company. He called Whatury once,

“I

you wete,” Whitney replied

back at the company Their’s a new bag

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

Damian after their engaertsend sin onths ago. They loved under

to be intimate

in fronted Bandan, tying his tie with a flata

Done

forward, taking her arm. “Whitney, what do you think?

to how she had behaved by

and white shirt, was wearing a

Whitmer had personally picked out was discarded at the foot of

Damian, he immediate had het sie

on the the on the floor, Rachel particked. “I’m sorry,

Whitney saw no

Whitney said with a smile. “You two carry

just a tie. Don’t overthink a “Damian blocked her path. “Rachel