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

she instinctively took a few steps back. Once she saw who it was. warmth surged through her.

he have the keys to this

lips and silently switched on the

in his hand, spinning it lightly

on the other side of the

fingertips still casually twirling

attempted to cover it up. “I just went out to grab some groceries, got held up at the store.”

hands were clearly empty.

were you

“Half an hour.”

ago, he lied to his

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as it the air in the

breathe.

carefully before you answer. Where

truth, what was the point of all this? He

heart. racing. She had a feeling that if she lied to Max now, they might never

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