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.

from the window causing the curtains to flutter. accentuating his aloof demeanor. The coolness from his presence seemed to permeate the entire

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

did he have the keys to this place?

silently switched on the

hand, spinning it lightly on

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

his fingertips still casually twirling the phone.

exposed. She quickly attempted to cover it up. “I just went out to grab some groceries, got held

were clearly empty.

long were you gone?”

“Half an hour.”

ago, he lied to his father for her, and now she was lying

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the air in the room was thinning,

breathe.

last question for you, think carefully before you answer. Where were you this

was the point of all this? He needed

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

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