Chapter 264

Max fiddled with his phone, a ripple of emotion flickering in his eyes. With a few swipes, he found Brielle’s number and called her.

Brielle, leaning on her cane, had just reached the bottom of the stairs when her phone rang. Though she had switched phones, her number remained unchanged, and she pressed the answer button.

“Where are you?” Max’s voice was deep, a hint of gravity behind it. Brielle paused, almost instinctively lying. “Just resting at home.”

He sat on the couch, his eyelashes drooping slightly, a tight sensation crossing his heart. “Which home?”

“Pearl Estate. I’ve been here resting since I got back from Premier Palace.”

“You haven’t gone out?”

Brielle couldn’t grasp why he was prying so much, so she simply went along. “Yeah.”

With her cane, she entered the elevator and stopped at her apartment door. Taking out her keys, she unlocked the door.

the spacious couch, the breeze from the window causing the curtains to flutter. accentuating his aloof demeanor. The coolness from his presence seemed to permeate

faltered, and she instinctively took a few steps back. Once she saw who

How did he have the

her lips and silently

phone in his hand, spinning it lightly on his

felt a tingle in her scalp and stopped on the other side of the room, swallowing

his fingertips still casually twirling the

been exposed. She quickly attempted to cover it up. “I just

hands were clearly empty.

long were

“Half an hour.”

hesitation and heard Max let out a soft chuckle. Just minutes ago, he lied to his father for her,

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gaze, feeling as it the air in the room was thinning, almost unable

breathe.

think carefully before you

the point of all this? He needed

cane, her lips pressed tight, her heart. racing. She had a feeling that if she lied to Max now, they might never

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