Love's Cunning Ruse novel Chapter 75

Dylan didn't see this coming. He tried to help out Julie, only to get caught in the act by Kerry.

Dylan, who originally planned to let go of Julie, suddenly smiled, and intentionally held Julie tighter. "Mr. Hernandez, I'm impressed by how efficiently your company utilizes its staff. I admire Attorney Abraham's professionalism in continuing to work while ill."

Clearly, he was mocking Kieran for being heartless. Any sane person would've picked up on it.

After saying this, Dylan seemed to feel that his words were not sharp enough. He turned to Julie, smiled and said, "Attorney Abraham, you don't have a boyfriend, do you?"

Kieran maintained a poker face, watching Dylan's hand on Julie's waist with a deep gaze. He was thinking that Dylan was asking for trouble.

Julie quietly broke free from Dylan's hold, steadying herself.

She didn't answer Dylan's question but politely said "Thank you" to him.

"There's no need to be so formal. I was just asking. Attorney Abraham, you're not mad, are you?"

Julie shook her head.

Dylan completely ignored Kieran beside him and turned to Julie again: "The reason why I said Attorney Abraham doesn't have a boyfriend is because I was thinking, if Attorney Abraham had someone to take care of her, she wouldn't have to push herself to come to work sick."

Every word from Dylan was provoking Kieran.

In the end, Kieran said, "Have you spent so much time with the dead that you've forgotten how to interact with the living?"

That was a harsh comeback.

Despite the one-and-a-half-meter distance between them, Julie could still feel the tense atmosphere between Kieran and Dylan.

She wanted to get out of the situation temporarily to avoid more misunderstandings.

As Julie was planning to walk into the office, Kieran stopped her. "Didn't I tell you last night that you didn't have to come in today?"

"That was what Karl said."

"Are you my lawyer or Karl's lawyer?" Kieran asked Julie.

Julie remained silent. Contractually, she was indeed Kieran's dedicated lawyer.

But that didn't mean she had to obey Kieran's orders.

Dylan casually leaned against the elevator, watching Kieran and Julie.

Kieran pressed the CEO's private elevator button, then looked at Julie and said, "Get in."

"No need, I'll go find Karl."

"Get in." Kieran's tone didn't change. He just repeated himself.

Dylan suddenly straightened up and walked towards Julie. "Attorney Abraham, you're just a cooperating lawyer, not Mr. Hernandez's slave. You can refuse him. Go ahead, reject him. I'm on the side of justice."

The situation wasn't serious to begin with, but Dylan's words made Julie feel compelled to get in the elevator.

Because, Kieran was her client contractually, according to professional standards, she should've entered the elevator without showing emotion.

When she first met Dylan, Julie thought he was fresh, neat, and willing to help. Back then, he generously helped her solve some awkward problems.

However, not long after, Julie found that she seemed to have some fundamental misunderstandings about Dylan.

The elevator door closed.

Julie turned her head to initiate a conversation with Kieran: "Karl asked me to handle some important things at the company."

"What things?" Kieran asked.

Of course, he wouldn't tell Julie that this phone call was actually made under his instructions. Judging from Julie's current reaction, she didn't seem to suspect Ivan's identity.

Julie shook her head and calmly looked at Kieran: "Mr. Hernandez, I didn't get a chance to see Karl because of you, so I don't know what important things Karl wanted me to handle."

After Julie finished speaking, the elevator fell silent.

Until it stopped between the second and third basement floors.

Kieran was a very private person and Julie knew well. Otherwise, the third basement of Simpo Co. wouldn't have been used as his private parking lot.

Besides Kieran's car, only those permitted explicitly by Kieran could enter.

So when the elevator door opened, Julie didn't follow Kieran out.

But she pressed the button for the ground floor. Unfortunately, Kieran didn't leave. Instead, he stood at the elevator door, blocking it.

"Mr. Hernandez, do you need anything?" Julie asked.

"You left your medicine in my car last night." Kieran looked at his car parked not far away and told Julie.

Julie knew that if she didn't take her medicine back now, Kieran might ask her why she left in a hurry last night.

And last night, she had made her feelings so clear that it made their relationship awkward. She could hardly imagine whether she could get along with Kieran peacefully.

So Julie ended up walking towards Kieran's car.

This time, Kieran didn't reach out to help her or hold her. He just followed her.

When Julie reached the car, Kieran unlocked it, went straight to the driver's seat, and fastened his seatbelt.

She quickly realized that Kieran had come after her because of this, so she reached out her hand to him and politely said, "Thanks."

Her 'thanks' seemed to isolate them into the most familiar strangers.

Kieran stood in front of Julie, looking down at her with a deep gaze.

The plane tree by the street was shedding leaves. The golden leaves fell from the tree, landing on the road in front of them.

The sound of the falling leaves was somewhat pleasant.

Julie kept her hand out, waiting for Kieran to hand over the anti-inflammatory pills.

But they just stared at each other as if in a trance.

In the end, it was Julie who snapped back to reality first.

She awkwardly pulled her hand back.

However, just as she pulled back her hand, Kieran bent over and grabbed her wrist.

Julie was gently pulled by him, and she jumped two steps towards him.

Kieran didn't make any further moves, just placed the anti-inflammatory pills in Julie's palm: "Three times a day, two pills each time."

"Oh, thanks," Julie said, trying to pull her hand back but found that Kieran's hand was tightly gripping her wrist. Like it was stuck with super glue, he wouldn't let go.

Julie tried hard to pull her hand back.

Despite her several attempts, Kieran didn't react.

It wasn't until she decided to give up resisting that he finally let go.

This time, Julie didn't even say goodbye. She just turned and left.

"About what you said last night." Kieran started from behind.

Julie cut him off, "Some things I only say once. If you can't remember, it's fine, just pretend I never said it."

Some words that hurt, she didn't want to repeat because every time she said such words, she was hurting herself.

Julie didn't turn around, and she just kept walking forward with determination.

Suddenly, a bucket of dirty water flew out of nowhere, heading straight for Julie.

At that moment, Kieran instinctively rushed over and pushed Julie out of the way.