Chapter 145
“L-Leo?”
Hesitantly, she turned to Leo with trembling lips. Wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, the man standing in front of her fashioned a short buzz cut and had a rather stumpy physique.
His face was rounded, coupled with a pair of crafty eyes. On both sides of his lips was some facial hair, and he looked a little like a successful person.
While others didn’t know who he was, Elyse knew him very well.
But the more she knew, the more terrified she was. Her ears rumbled, and she was so weak that she lost the strength to stand upright.
Her legs turned wobbly. She wasn’t sure how much Leo had found out. Hence, she could only try to deduce from his facial expression.
Leo had awakened from his drunken stupor from earlier, and his handsome face was void of all emotions. His eyes were deep like an ocean, and his lips were pursed into a line. He did not urge her for clarification.
However, a thick cloud of cold air shrouded him, and it engulfed her silently, taking her breath away.
Her fingers tightened and loosened repeatedly, and she gritted her teeth as she decided to bluff her way through. No matter how much he found out, it will be okay as long as I don’t admit to anything!
So, she put up a confused and pathetic stance. “Who’s this gentleman? Why did you bring him to my place so late at night?”
As an actor, she could easily put her acting skills to use even at a time like this effortlessly masking the nervousness she was feeling a second ago with a sweet smile.
other hand, Leo didn’t immediately expose anything and merely studied her
always been, but the owner of this face was so strange to him that he could no longer recognize
honestly, unlike now where she was still
with her. “This is Elliot, the
eyes were so dark that she couldn’t read anything in them, but the flash of sharp light he emitted seemed to indicate him having read her mind a long time ago. He had seen her
was!
an end to Elyse’s pretense. She shuddered and
he didn’t ask him to do so because he wanted her
Elyse could also tell
about it, but when her deeds were exposed, the embarrassment was more than she could put into words, not to mention that she had
want to say anything, and neither
silently as he let her confront “Elliot”, as though he wouldn’t call it
confrontation continued, it would attract the attention
her popularity had waned, many people
it will only spell trouble when people
she grabbed his sleeve and looked up at him with puppy eyes. “Leo, I was wrong. I made a mistake, okay? I asked him to pretend to be Elliot for the interview because I feel so insecure. Recently, Amelie has been constantly popping up in our lives, and you keep your relationship with her ambiguous. I’m scared, Leo. I’m scared that she’ll snatch you from me.” Right in front
silence as he pulled her arms away and took a step back to
waved to the bodyguards standing outside. They understood his order
looking back, saying, “Mr. Alston, I’m begging you. Please let me go! Miss Clayton promised me a million if I can successfully upset you. I was overtaken by greed for a second, that’s why I… But I
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