When Love Is a Lie

Chapter 195 Tell Him You Never Loved Him, You Just Used Him

Whitney’s redier body toembled authe weight of the truth sink in.

From the moment she and Rachel stated their plan, Damian had known everything. He had been watching them all along, letting them act out their futile scheme while he waited in the shadows.

It was all under hiscont

she finally understood Neel’s waming–Damian wasn’t someone who could be bronglit down easily. The man who had risen to the top of the Howard empire wasn’t just chaming, he was calculating and puthless.

She had gondol’s advice, stubbornly believing she could handle things on her own Now, her navet had landed her here

Whitney tell a sharp pang of regret, but it was too late for that. She had to find a way out of this,

“Ladmit I thought Hudevidence,” she said, keeping her volce steady. “But I didn’t do anything. I just wanted to force you to end the engagement

Damian’s lips twitched into a cold smile.

He held up his hand, and Billy stepped forward, pulling a Lansiliar envelope from his jacket. He placed it in Damian’s outstretched hand.

Whitney’s stomach dropped. It was the letter she had perpared for the authorities.

he gotten it?

in front of her, hestone mocking, “You’re planning to turn me in, and you

wanted to take you down, I’d have sent that the moment 1 got my hands on the files.”

as he stepped closer, his hand snapping out

to me,” he snarled. “Noel’s been investigating me, basn’t he? Don’t act like you weren’t planning to hand everything over to him. You two are working together to destroy

gripnichtened, and Whitney gasped for air, her face turning red

She’s going to pass

seemed to snap out of it, his eyes flicking to Whitey’s face. He released her, letting her collapse forward, coughing and gasping as

“You’ve been with Rachel behind my back,

before it was replaced by something

it. “I shouldn’t have been with her. I shouldn’t have hurt you. But don’t you see? I cralized I love you. That’s why I

voice dropped, the desperation in

done the deals, the risks–was for you. Once my plan succeeds, the entire Howard legacy will be

Damian had crossed the line from ambition to obsession, and there was no reasoning with him.

to destiny me! You plotted against me with Rachel and Noel. You were going to let me

through the air

loved you for right years, Damian. Eight years! You to me apart. Was I supposed to just accept

trembled with a mix of anger and pain, her voice breaking

twisted as if she’d stabbed him, his notions a storm of age and anguish. Then, almost