Bedmates Soulmates
CHAPTER 350

His eyes had taken on a mesmerising quality, like those of a hypnotist's.

"It must be your superpower. You have this magic ability to make others fall for you once they get to know you. It couldn't be helped. You must've been blessed by the hand of Aphrodite. He caressed her cheek with the tender touch of a lover.

'tam but a man. I can't resist your charm. I'm attracted to you, like one magnet to another."

Kira seemed to be in a trance.

She stopped struggling and leaned in.

He's A Silk Flower

She held has wrist

She looked up at him, lips slightly parted.

Their eyes met.

Liam felt a surge of excitement.

Kira seemned to have believed him

He sensed a change in the chemistry between them.

There was affection in her eyes.

Her touch was warn,

She was holding his wrist, voluntarily, willingly-

Liam closed the gap between them with one step

The time was right for a kiss.

A true, amorous kiss.

Kira sudd

Kira suddenly let go of his hand and stepped back

Her face was stony

""What's wrong?"

'You said you love me?"

Her mocking tone gave him a feeling of unease.

'Yes.'

"You're lying'

Liam cocked an eyebrow. "Every word I just said is true. I'm not lying"

Kira's voice was dripping with scorn. "Do you know why I held your wrist just now?"

Liam wasn't smiling anymore.

He didn't know where she was going with that question.

'I was taking your pulse,' she said. 'You said you love me, but apparently, your heart didn't get the message. It was beating in its usual steady rhythm. About 70 to 80 beats per minute. You were confessing your love, but you weren't even excited." Liam stared at her blankly.

He thought she had been taken in by his words.

But she was just coolly assessing the truth of his statement.

Once again, he had underestimated her.

"Even lie detectors are not hundred per cent effective. Liam made a last-ditch effort to convince her. 'How can you place your trust in something as unreliable as a pulse? It my heart is not racing, then I must be lying? What other reactions must I show? Flushed checks? A stammer?"

Kira moved back a step. You're right. I can't tell if you're lying or not just based on your heart rate

Liam nodded, smiling

She was coming around.

'But what I do know for sure is, Austyn has these reactions, and you don't

When she confessed her feelings to Austyn last night, he'd replied with a lukewarm "same here'

But when she leaned in for the kiss, she left his heart thumping in his chest.

It was beating faster than her own.

For a usually cool-headed, taciturn man, that bodily reaction worked as well as, if not better than, a verbal response.

Liam Cane, on the other hand, was all charming smiles and honeyed words on the outside and a stone-cold heart on the inside.

i was a fake, like a silk flower.

Kira had watched 'Lie To Me.'

While she tried and failed to pick up on micro-expressions of a liar, at least she knew how to apply the tried-and-true technique of pulse taking.

"Mouths may lie, but hearts can't. As the saying goes, there are three things you can't hide-cough, poverty and love. You can't hide love. Nor can you fake it'

Kira's voice was flat. 'A leopard never changes its spots. You don't love me. You're just using lies to trick me like you did in the past You want me to feel sorry for you. You're just taking advantage of my kindness."

Liam Cane had a scary talent for reading people.

He knew Kira had a soft spot for the underdog, and he made himself out to be one.

He was a ruthless manipulator.

Kira took another step backwards,

Liam was unperturbed.

His face showed neither the shame at getting caught in a lie, nor the defensive anger.

He just stood there, looking at Kira, as calm as could be.

Kira couldn't tell what he was thinking, nor was she interested to find out.

"You helped me today, just like you helped me in the past. But you also tried to sabotage my relationship with Austyn, again, like you tried to do in the past. I'm grateful to you for the first thing, but I hate you for the second. I don't know what to do with you. Maybe it's best if we never see each other again.!

Kira sald her piece, turned on her heel and walked away.

She hoped she'd made herself perfectly clear.

When she didn't hear the sound of footsteps behind her, Kira was relieved,

"I guess that's the last time I see the man.'

But she spoke too soon.

The sound of leather shoe heels clacking on the floor made her stop.

She looked back

Liam was striding towards her.

Kira was flustered

The man was as stubborn as he was scheming!

Kira picked up her pace, practically jogging.

Liam didn't slow down

"You think I lied to you, but I didn

Kira focused on finding the nearest exit.

They were still inside the condo compound.

She randomly turned onto cobblestoned footpaths, hoping to lose him.

'You can't judge me based on some stupid theory about heart rate. It's not fair!"

Kira broke into a run.

But she was lugging a heavy canvas bag.

Liam was clace behind.

His & Silk Flower

Kira didn't watch where she was going and bumped straight into someone.

Momentum carried her forward.

She almost knocked down the person

'Miss Connelly!' Kira recognised the woman who stumbled.

She grabbed her arm. 'Are you all right?"

Deborah steadied herself.

She was heading back to the apartment after an aimless stroll in the garden.

She thought Kira had left.

What was Kira still doing here?

I'm fine,' Deborah said.

'Sorry, I didn't see you there.' Kira offered an apologetic head tilt.

Miss Connelly looked so willowy and fragile, Kira was afraid she might have hurt her.

It's fine"

"Are you heading home?"

Deborah nodded,

Kira quickly stepped aside. "Then I won't keep you. Sorry again."

Deborah smoothed out her dress. 'It's okay."

"D-Deborah?"

She froze

Then her head snapped up.

The man standing behind Kira was tall and handsome, and looked debonair in a white shirt and black suit jacket.

His face was more mature now, but it had the same charm as seven years ago

Deborah's mouth was hanging open.

Liam walked up to her, slowly, uncertainly

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