Said I didn’t Love Him But I Lied

The sunset cast a brilliant glow on the horizon.

As Everleigh had yet to formally return to her duties, she decided to go home early. She was going to stop at a bakery on her way home before sunset to buy some of Adrienne’s favorite doughnuts.

“Hi, I’ll take two doughnuts please, to take away.”This belongs © NôvelDra/ma.Org.

“Sure, one moment please.”

The waiter was packing the doughnuts inside. Everleigh bent down and looked at the cake in the showcase window. The strawberry cake was as tempting as when she was a child and the bright colors made her eyes light up.

“Hi, I’ll take the strawberry cake. Takeaway, please.” A familiar voice came from beside Everleigh, taking her by surprise. She raised her head and saw Stainley standing next to her.

“Why are you here?” She stood up straight in surprise.

Stainley smiled and said, “I was just passing by and saw your car coming in.”

Everleigh subconsciously took a look outside. Her car was parked outside the cake shop, not far away from Stainley’s car. She scratched her head and said in embarrassment, “That’s really a coincidence.”

“I heard that you’ve been back to work? Are you going to work tomorrow?”

“Well.” When it came to this, Everleigh was in a good mood, “It’s all thanks to Dr. Harrison.”

“Dr. Harrison thinks highly of you and he’s always proud of you.”

“No,” Everleigh smiled and said, “It’s more like I’m the student who gave him the most headaches.”

As the pair were chatting, a waiter’s voice came from the back of the counter, “Miss, here are your doughnuts. Sir, here’s your cake.”

“Thank you.”

Everleigh took the bag and turned around. She saw that Stainley was handing the bag of the strawberry cake to her and looked at her with a smile.

“Is this for me?”

“What else do you think? I don’t like eating sweet food. Here, you can have it.”

“Well, I’m going to take it. Thanks a bunch! I’ll buy you a coffee next time.” Everleigh took the cake.

They walked out of the shop side by side. Stainley said, “If you really want to thank me, why don’t you join me in Ocpeace Medical University’s alumni event next week? Professors of the university are asking me to go back and give a lecture. I’m going to talk about how a pandemic spreads. I’ll also talk about the virus that we fought in the past.”

“This Saturday?”

“What’s wrong? Do you have something to do?”

“I promised to bring my children to the zoo on that day.” Everleigh hesitated for a while and said with a smile, “It’s okay, I should be able to do it on Saturday. I’ll bring them to the zoo on Sunday. They’ll tag along with me to the university on Saturday.”

“Okay, it’s settled then.”

After that, the two separated at the door of the bakery, and Everleigh drove away first.

It was the evening and Stainley stood at the roadside, staring at the back of the car for a long time with a gentle gaze.

The darkness of the night bloomed as the last few rays of sunlight slowly faded away, the sun lowering into the faraway mountains. Bright lights lit up all over the city, and the busy nightlife began.

Behind the French windows, Theodore was reading a document. His assistant, Moses knocked on the door and walked in.

“Mr. Godfrey, this is the invitation from your old university.”

Theodore didn’t even raise his head. “Leave it.”

“Yes.” Moses placed the invitation at the corner of the desk and carefully walked out to close the door.

After an almost inaudible sound of closing the door, the room fell silent again, just like every night he had spent in the past for so many years.

At the end of the document, Theodore signed his name. Only then did he raise his head and look at the invitation sitting at the corner of the table.

It had a red cover stamped with the golden emblem of Ocpeace Medical University. When the invitation was opened, it showed the doors of Ocpeace Medical University, and the school motto.

Few people in the Godfrey Group knew that their CEO was a graduate from one of the top three medical universities in the country. No one would think that the successor of a family company would apply to be enrolled in an institute that had zero connection to his family business.

To the public, Theodore looked like he had no desire. Some even thought he was cold-hearted. No one would have expected that he once was willing to give up on his future possibilities just to be in the same university as the girl he liked. He was even willing to sever ties with his family.

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The next day, a press conference was held in the hospital to clear things up about the rumors circulating on the Internet. Everleigh went together with Benedict.

There was a big crowd of reporters from different media outlets because the matter involved the leading actress, Selena, and she had yet to issue any statement.

The document for clarification had long been prepared by the hospital administration department. Everleigh just needed to memorize it in advance and read it out sincerely. Even though there were some cringeworthy parts, such as thanking the director for taking care of her, the other parts were all true.

“In short, this is a misunderstanding. Mr. Lawson and his colleagues in the hospital have been taking good care of me all this time. They sent me to the film set to be a medical consultant because the former consultant was pregnant. In accordance with the spirit of humanitarianism in our hospital, they let me work somewhere else for the time being.”

After finishing what she had to say, Everleigh bowed to the reporters and sat down, waiting for them to ask questions.

“Hello, Dr. Trevino. I’m a reporter from the Wellington Post newspaper.”

“Nice to meet you.”

“We already know what happened at the hospital, but you’ve never talked about the injury you got from the drama set. Since the video that has been circulating in the Internet is authentic, it means that Selena really did harm you. Is this true?”

That was also what everyone present was concerned about.

They were not interested in the disputes in the medical system at all, but any sort of celebrity gossip was worth a lot.

Everleigh smiled and calmly replied, “How can it be true? If Selena cut my hand on purpose like the rumors online, then she is hurting me on purpose and facing criminal responsibility. No matter how arrogant an actress is, she can’t take her future as a joke, can she?”

“Is it true that you don’t get along well with Selena?”

“We are all colleagues at work. We are usually busy and have no interactions. Besides, I am only the consultant of the crew, not an actor. I am also very curious about where these rumors come from.”

In the eyes of an outsider, she had no interest in her dispute with Selena. Explaining why the pair did not get along was easy. As long as she kept denying it, the press had no evidence to support their statement.

“A video where Selena slapped you has been circulating on the Internet. Is that not evidence?”

“Oh, well…” Everleigh’s face was like she had just figured out something when she said, “That is a rehearsed scene from a play that I’m a part of. I mean, what year is it? Do you people still believe that a scene from a play is real?”

While she was speaking, as Everleigh’s eyes swept through one corner of the room, she spotted a slender figure. Their gazes met each other’s before the figure raised its hand to press on a cap and hide behind the crowd.