All Chapters of The Saintess Chose The Wrong Man: Chapter 231
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Chapter 231
“Hello,” Alice’s voice came into the phone in a hush as soon as Lombard answered the call. “You okay?” he asked as he got into the car. “Actually, I’m not sure. I’m calling you from the restroom because I don’t want Abigail to know about this. Mireya called me a few seconds ago and said she’d like to have a discussion with me, if that’s okay. I didn’t give her an answer, I just told her I’d check my schedule and get back to her. She wouldn’t tell me exactly what she wants to discuss.” “Are you free today?” Lombard asked as he started the car. “Yes. Basically,” she said. “You can call her back and tell her that you’ll be free. In the meantime, can we meet up now? You don’t have to tell Abigail about it.” “She won’t let me leave the house, not after everything that happened to me. Even now, she’s in the kitchen whipping something together for me,” she said. Lombard let out a soft groan. “I’m coming over. You and I are going out after, and we can talk. In the meantime, don’t tell
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“Oh, Alice. Did I wake you?” Lombard asked. Abigail sensed something didn’t add up. She hadn’t told Lombard that Alice was sleeping, and from the way Alice looked, no one would have guessed she’d been asleep at all. No one slept looking like that. But she kept the observation to herself.“Yes, I was. You have something to tell me?” Alice asked, her voice quiet.“Yes. I was wondering if I could buy you a drink, or take you shopping, to make up for all the stress you went through because of me and my family. After all, I was the one who broke up with Mireya, and her family came here and caused you all this mess,” Lombard said.None of the explanation made sense to Abigail. Since when had Lombard become this caring? She didn’t say anything.“You don’t have to worry,” Alice said, but it came out weak, like she’d fly straight out the door if Lombard asked her one more time.“No, I insist,” Lombard said. “And Abigail, if you want to come along with us, you can too.”“Oh, never mind, I don’t
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Alice had already called Mireya back and told her she was free. They’d agreed to meet at the restaurant in the next ten minutes. Lombard had driven there, and they were still in the car, watching people come and go through the entrance.Lombard’s eyes stayed on the door, but Alice wasn’t looking that way at all. Her eyes were on Lombard instead. He looked like exactly the kind of trouble she should avoid. She tried not to romanticize every inch of him she was staring at, but it was becoming impossible by the second. Twice, she’d looked away as fast as she could before he could catch her. And twice, it had been awkward.“She’s here now,” Lombard announced.Alice looked at the door. Mireya had really arrived, sunglasses on, one guard stationed outside in case anything happened, another going in with her.Lombard had already fitted himself with something that would let him hear their conversation in real time. He waited for Mireya to get out of her car, but two seconds later, she still h
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She went back to the car. Lombard was on a call. She got in anyway.“I’ll call you later,” Lombard said, and ended the call.Alice looked at him.“Should I drive you over to the shopping mall now, so we can make things less suspicious for Abigail?” he asked, already starting the car.“Never mind. I’ll tell her something to keep her mind off it.”“I can go get you anything, to save you the explanation,” he insisted.Alice slowly looked back at him. “You don’t think I’ve already forgotten what just happened, do you?” she asked.“What happened?”“Why did you even think I agreed to all of this? I called you to tell you Mireya called me. What do you think that means? That I couldn’t have told her to go to hell, that I didn’t want a damn thing to do with her family after everything they put me through yesterday?” she asked.“You could have done that,” he said calmly, still not getting the point. That she was mad.“And what do you think I’ve been doing this whole time, telling you I have fee