The Wrong Woman

Chapter 223

The light in Nathan’s eyes dimmed in the face of the disappointment. Suzanne noticed the change in him and grappled with guilt as though she had let him down.

Nonetheless, her guilt dissolved once she thought about his affair with Sally. Besides, she didn’t plan to tell anyone, including Nathan, about the fact that she wasn’t Suzanne, that she was still searching for her real identity.

With that in mind, she sat up in bed and combed through her hair. “I don’t want to spend my life with a jerk like you.”

He sat up in bed just like she did. Bending over and lowering his head, he ruffled through his hair and let out a long and soft sigh.

He began helplessly, “This isn’t the first time you called me a jerk. Give me a reason why.”

She lowered her head in silence. Pinching the hem of the blanket, she sank into thoughts.

He added, “I can only change if you tell me

at’s wrong.”

Feeling oddly calm, she claimed, “You only have eyes for your first love.”

protested helplessly, “But

love.”

paused for seconds before saying,

her. “That’s not a good reason to call me a

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injured, you insisted on getting Sally to live

cut her off. “I brought her over to the Norvanian military on strictly professional terms. It had nothing to do with my private

he argued, the more absurd she found his excuses. She confronted him, “How about the hugging

was at that moment he finally grasped the reason Suzanne left without a word and her insistence on getting a

the misunderstanding. Fortunately, she failed to keep her thoughts to herself and blurted it

at me. Did you stumble on that scene?”

of bullshit. That was too much of

her face away from

in the VIP ward. I’ll

mumbled dejectedly, “I

If you doubt me, you should give

Like a kitten, she purred softly, “I gave you a final chance, but you didn’t