Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 290

Was she jealous? When Hayden realized what Julien had just insinuated, his eyes twinkled with delight.

Only after seeing Hayden’s expression did Julien realize her slip. But to deny it now would only make it worse. She stood up and headed toward the door, not saying a word. This belongs © NôvelDra/ma.Org.

“Where are you going?”

“To get some pills!” she replied coldly,

But Hayden, with his longer strides, got to the door before her and blocked her way. “You were following me?”

“It was a coincidence.”

Indeed, it was. She had seen Hayden with Adeline at the grocery store. Hayden, a man who never set foot in a kitchen, was shopping for groceries with Adeline.

Their good looks and harmonious interaction attracted a lot of attention. They looked like a loving couple who had been together for years, or a newlywed couple still in the honeymoon phase.

Julien happened to witness all of this but didn’t want to watch out of curiosity, so she let it go. But who would’ve thought that such coincidences do happen?

Learning that Hayden and Adeline had planned to go to a restaurant for a date, she didn’t want to return to the villa where Hayden lives, so she checked into a nearby hotel. But it was such a coincidence, as soon as she checked into the hotel, Hayden and Adeline walked in.

And they only booked one room!

She wasn’t trying to pay attention to them, but that night, she admitted she didn’t sleep well.

They stayed the whole night at the hotel, as Julien saw them having breakfast in the hotel restaurant the next morning.

She remembered walking out of the hotel that morning, hungry. Out of sight, out of mind.

So, she wasn’t lying. Running into him and Adeline at the grocery store, and booking a room, were all coincidences.

But Hayden’s face showed a clear disbelief, “Why do you care about Adeline?” It seemed like he was determined to make her tell the truth today.

Julien took a deep breath, took a few steps back, and looked at the man blocking the door. Beating around the bush wasn’t her style, some things should probably be said,

“Ldon’t care about Adeline, I care about you. If you wouldn’t flirt with me, I wouldn’t care who you’re with.”

“What if I am loyal?” He leaned against the door, asking her.

Hearing this, she laughed, “Loyalty means giving up all the women for me. Including giving up Adeline, can you do that?”

“Give up Adeline…” He paused before replying, “I might not be able to do that.”

This wasn’t a negotiable tone, but a certain one, telling her he wouldn’t give up a beauty like Adeline for her.

Julien didn’t know Adeline well, they had only met a few times. The only impression Adeline left on her was: devastatingly beautiful.

Hearing his not-so-surprising answer, she finally said, “Then don’t block my way.”

“Aren’t you going to ask me why?” He didn’t step aside, but continued to block her path.

Julien crossed her arms and asked obligingly, “Why?”

She didn’t believe he could give her a satisfying answer!

“Because Adeline is my sister.” He looked her in the eye, a light smile on his face.

Julien gave a cold laugh, “Is that how people describe intimate relationships these days?”

“Biological sister.” He added.

Biological sister?! Julien, standing in front of him, loosened her crossed arms in surprise.

“We booked a room because she was emotionally unstable after learning the truth, and it wasn’t suitable for her to go home. But she clearly didn’t want to go home

with me either. So, booking a room was the last resort.” He rarely explained things, but due to Julien’s doubts, he explained everything clearly.

Julien stood still for a while, probably for two or three minutes, before she found her voice. She then said coldly to him, “That’s your business.”

He blocked the door, so she turned around and walked toward the balcony.

There was only a balcony separating her bedroom from his. Julien could easily climb over it.

This time, Hayden didn’t follow.

Julien changed her clothes, but Hayden’s words kept echoing in her mind.

Finally, she threw the clothes into the bathroom, turned around, and opened the door

But the man who hadn’t chased her into her room was standing at the door, as if he had been waiting for her to come out…

Julien almost walked into him as she opened the door. He handed her a bottle of pills, “Keep more, you might need them later.”

She looked up at him without any hidden meanings, just like looking at a stranger.

In the end, she poured the pills into her palm and swallowed them all at once.

She then pushed him away, “I’m going to look for Simon now, are you planning to follow me?”

Hayden stepped back, making way for her.

As Julien left the villa, her first task was not to find the whereabouts of the Fitzgerald family’s heir, but to find Dylan.

Dylan was surprised to see Julien, “You are the female assassin?”

Considering the reason she was looking for him, Julien temporarily let it slide.

Dylan quickly covered his mouth and looked at Julien guiltily, “What are you doing here?”

Julien pulled out the pill bottle from her pocket and threw it to Dylan, “Find out what this is.”

“Is there a reward?” Dylan asked, grinning.

Julien squinted her eyes, smiled and said, “Assassins don’t usually show mercy. If you want to end up on this table being dissected, I can arrange that.”

So she had heard the words ‘female assassin’, Dylan weakly took the bottle from Julien’s hands.

In a short while, after testing, the answer was given, three words, “Vitamins.”

After saying that, he added, “Who the hell would put vitamíns in a birth control pill bottle? Are we investigating some big case here?”

Julien’s face didn’t look so good, and she threw out a word, “Murder case!”

After that, she said a rare thanks to Dylan.

She didn’t think about settling accounts with Hayden, instead, she went to the pharmacy and bought real birth control pills to put in this bottle, then tucked it into her pocket. After doing all these actions, she remembered the words he said when he handed her the bottle: Stock up, you’ll need them later!

Julien’s eyes deepened, she took the pill bottle out of her pocket, popped two into her mouth, and then threw the bottle and the pills back into the trash can.

She reached out to hail a cab, but saw Julie across the street.

At that moment, she was standing on the sidewalk, waiting for the traffic light, seemingly ready to cross the road. She didn’t see Julien on this side of the road. Julien was taken aback, and walked to this side of the zebra crossing, ready to wait for Julie to come over. At that moment, a black van suddenly lost control and drove towards Julie’s sidewalk.

“Julie!” Julien, standing across the street, suddenly shouted towards Julie.

Julie also seemed to notice the danger approaching and suddenly looked towards the direction of the van. The vehicle was speeding towards her without any signs of braking. In less than half a second, Julie’s pupils dilated, and her legs were already subconsciously preparing to dodge..

But the speed of the van was too fast, giving her no extra reaction time.

In less than a second, the van was driving towards her. At the critical moment, suddenly, a strong force came from behind, pulling her from the sidewalk.

Due to the force of the person behind her, Julie fell to the ground with him.

The dizzying feeling made it difficult for Julie to breathe, and it took her a long time to recover.

The van seemed to be out of control not by accident, but deliberately, just like the car that Kieran drove into the river last time. After realizing that their goal was not achieved, the driver of the car quickly turned the steering wheel and drove away recklessly.

The arrogant driver didn’t bother to stop at the red light and scared a motorcycle to slam on the brakes.

After confirming that Julie was safe, Julien pulled the driver off the motorcycle, then rode the motorcycle to chase the van.

The van driver’s driving skills were top-notch and he kept overtaking.

The place had become a traffic jam due to the accident just now. Julien skillfully ride the motorcycle to chase after him. Clearly, the driver didn’t expect such a delicate and beautiful woman to chase him so recklessly, her driving skills were quite outstanding.

Due to the size of the vehicle, Julien quickly approached the van, and just when she was about to catch up, the motorcycle suddenly… ran out of gas.

The speed of the motorcycle gradually slowed down and finally stopped in the middle of the road…

The owner of the motorcycle had to take a taxi to finally catch up with Julien, Seeing his motorcycle stopped in the road due to lack of gas, his face was very ugly, “You stole my motorcycle!”

Julien turned her head, her cold gaze stared at the man for a moment. Maybe it was because Julien’s aura was too strong, the man who was actually the victim felt a bit intimidated…

Julien took out her phone and dialed Raines’ number, “Come to Hawthorn Lane.”

Raines, who received the call, thought to himself, ‘What the hell! When did he become Julien’s personal assistant?

“When you leaked my location to him, you should’ve known this day would come.” After saying this, Julien hung up the phone.