Rewriting My Heart's Fate (Ethan and Evelyn)
Chapter 271

hapter 271

Liam stopped the car, walked over quickly, and looked at me with concem.

"What happened? Why are you here?"

took a deep breath in an attempt to calm the turmoil in my heart, but the uncontainable bitterness within had poured over like an overflowed darr

1 smiled tauntly, pretending that nothing had happened. Not everything needed to be on display. I channeled my mental fortitale to pretend that nothing head happened just so he could open up and tell me the truth. "Nothing much, l'an just lost."

He frowned. He didn't seem to believe my excuse, but he didn't probe further.

How likely was I to lose my way here? Other than coming to the traysons, why else would I be here?

Iknew he must really want to know the awer, but I had just found out the truth about him and was drowning in palin

It felt like a knife had stabbed deep in my heart. The pain was so great I couldn't even muster a smile.

He got out of the car, came around, and opened the door for me with a touch of gentleness in his gaze. There was no trace of his previous badgering

As expected, great pretenders could always find a chance to protect themselves in the most dangerous of situations. They could also easily wash the suspicion of themselves in the most dire of situations.

As he stood there opening the car door for me tenderly, low he wanted to bring me away were alone that he was able to get the answers he wanted. so there

was a chance for the both

hoth of us to talk since it was only when we

"Ortin, and you back"

Thesitated, Alas, I still got into the car

Was there anything that could have brought me more agony than this? I could pretend that nothing had happened as I approached tum. I could also gradually try to understand a side of the situation

However, I had a lot of things I wanted to do. I didn't want to waste my time on him, but

1 was more eager to know when he started betraying me.

The car ride was so silent that all that we could hear were the car's air conditioner and the occasional wind from outside of the car.

I watched the scenery fly backward quickly as my heart was filled with chaos.

Other than the first time I was here on this road when I thought I was finally able to be a part of the Grayson family-I had never been happy otherwise

It was only later that I found out that I was abandoned and unwanted. If my own father didn't love me, who else would love me?

Liam sermed to have sensed the shift in my emotions. He murmured softly in my ear, trying to ease my heart in that

way.

However, he was the one who had brought agony to me. A lot of the times, that was how people were. They would have created many opportunities to do evil but would still pretend that they were kind and docile. pawant to talk about it, I'm all ears

Itumed my head and looked at the side of his soleman-looking tace as anguish illed my heart. I slipped into my u pertending, but I loathed the pain he had brought me more.

usual tacade of tenderness. I hated myself for

If all of these didn't happen, it didn't find out about the truth, he would very likely be the person I would pour my heart out to Till warned to push is its wanted to know how far he would go. Did he really want to pushime to the brink of despair? I took a deep birth and started telling him about what had been happening recently.

La listened to me quietly, nodding intermittently and comforting me with a soft voice occasionally,

A very long time age, when I had first crossed paths with him, I felt lik

was a conning, manipulative p

person

Slowly, leamed that he was not complicated as thing and that he was a good person is presence Feemed to give me an odd serise of security, where my pain and struggles were relieved