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.
breeze from the window causing the curtains to flutter. accentuating his aloof demeanor. The coolness from his
took a few steps back. Once she saw who it was.
did he have the
pursed her lips and silently switched on the lights.
his hand, spinning it lightly
scalp and stopped on the other side of the room, swallowing hard. “Mr. Dorsey.”
still
to cover it up. “I just went out to grab some groceries, got held
were clearly empty.
were you
“Half an hour.”
minutes ago, he lied to his father for her, and
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air
breathe.
carefully before you answer. Where
the point of all this? He needed her honesty.
She
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