Chapter 20

The moment Jonah heard Lily's words, a chill shot down his spine. "What… What do you mean?" "What do I mean? Seriously?" Lily scoffed, arms crossed. "And you call yourself a professor. I used a fake account, pretended to be Kayla, and sent a bunch of messages to myself, but you just believed it. You even made her apologize to me. "God, you're pathetic. Say it yourself—aren't you the dumbest man alive?" Everything from the past few weeks came crashing back into Jonah's mind, painfully vivid. He'd forced Kayla to apologize at the hospital. He'd stormed into her office and accused her of being rude and disrespectful. He'd believed every disgusting word was from her, without even questioning it. Lily was right. He had been a fool, but what he couldn't forgive was that she lied to him. "What happened to you?" he asked hoarsely. "If Ms. White were still alive to see this, she'd be devastated." "Spare me the fake sympathy," Lily snapped. "You swore to her you'd marry me, remember? Y