No longer a pushover (Noelle and Cedric) novel Chapter 1490

Frank replied, "Do you think she won't look into who Alfred is? Noelle will find out that you're lying to her sooner or later."

Carl was confident in his plan.

"Noelle won't bother investigating it as long as I feed her enough negative information about them. She won't find anything useful even if she tries anyway. She'll just think that her scumbag of an ex never publicly acknowledged her existence."

Frank immediately understood Carl's line of thought. "So that's why you deliberately used Alfred's photo to mislead her, huh? It's because you don't want her to find out the truth."

Carl replied, "You can think of it that way. My plan is already a success anyway. From here on out, it's up to us brothers to work together carefully to maintain our bond as siblings."

He then turned to Lucas and continued, "You probably never thought that you'd hear Noelle asking you to play games together in this lifetime, did you? That was all thanks to my efforts."

Lucas fell silent. He had to admit that it only happened because of what Carl had done.

Frank replied in Lucas' stead, "But it's all a lie. It's not real! What if one day she learns the truth—"

Carl interrupted him. "Then just make sure she never learns the truth. That way, she'll always see you as the brother she trusts the most. Isn't that better?"

Frank had to admit that the temptation was strong, especially when he saw how Noelle was smiling at him just now. The way she relied on him for help really made it feel like everything had returned to how it once was.

Carl noticed that they were both hesitating and continued, "Think it over carefully. Do you want to keep everything the way it is now? Or do you want to break it all apart with your own hands and have Noelle hate you so much she'd wish you were dead?"

With that, he turned around and left as he still had important matters to attend to.

Frank and Lucas stood frozen in place for a very long time.

Lucas eventually spoke up, "Frank, I'm going to set up the games with Noelle. When the time comes, I'll just tell her that she didn't win any tournaments despite being talented at gaming.

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