Nicole blurted out the so-called flawless excuse of hers, which she had long rehearsed in her mind countless times, in a sincere and serious manner.

Evan gazed at her with his abysmal pair of eyes. He found her odd because she wouldn’t stop fidgeting with the edge of her shirt.

 
 

Knitting his brows together, he neglected the things that she had told him and asked in return because he couldn’t suppress his curiosity anymore.

“I heard that someone has delivered you a gift. What is it?”

Nicole stared at Evan, wide-eyed. She couldn’t figure out who had turned their back against her and told him of the things that they should have kept from him.

 

If I’m not able to convince Evan, the flawless excuse that I have just made up isn’t going to do me any good, right?

 

After falling silent for a few seconds, she explained, “It’s a present from my assistant. I thought that something bad might have happened to her when I received the gift. Thus, I rushed over to her place to check if everything was fine.”

“What is it?” Evan decided to probe further into the matter. He thought that there was something fishy going on behind the scene because he noticed that Nicole was being anxious in an odd manner.

 

He couldn’t figure out the reason that she would want to keep him in the dark when it was a mere gift.

mind once again. “It’s a bracelet, but I have returned it to her because it’s not meant to be a gift. It’s merely something to get me to rush over to

 

finished her sentence, Nicole felt

prove the authenticity of her words, but the maid beside her exclaimed, “Oh! It’s a bracelet? I’d thought that it was something horrifying when

to race thereafter because of the maid’s words. She had

point due to the

he had narrowed his eyes in suspicion.

that you were not hearing things?” Nicole decided to put the blame on the maid to get herself out

 

 The maid stared at Nicole with an odd look in return because she

was about to rebuke Nicole’s words, yet she decided to give

shouldn’t have defied Nicole’s words, she apologized, “I’m so sorry, Ms.

a sense of guilt because she had blamed the maid for something that she hadn’t

to stop probing further because Nicole seemed to have her

hand, he suggested, “Let’s go

but Evan’s expression turned gloomy because he detected the scent of the tobacco that was exclusive to a

last time she had made

because it was a unique scent, exclusive to his favorite cigarillos brand. It might have been a coincidence last time, but it’s too much of

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