Chapter 402

April studied his face carefully. She had seen many men lie. They always avoided eye contact. They got defensive too quickly. They twisted words. But he looked… confused and lost. Like a man who genuinely had no idea where everything went wrong. She did not soften yet. “What about your affair?” she asked suddenly. “You were meeting your ex behind her back. How do you explain that?” Jabco blinked. “My ex?” His eyebrows pulled together. “What nonsense is that?” “You expect me to believe you had nothing to do with her?” “I don’t,” he said firmly. “I have no relationship with her. None. If I cheated on Riyana, why would I be here today? Why would I spend six months searching for her like a madman? I went everywhere. I asked everyone. I destroyed my own reputation looking for her.” His voice cracked slightly at the end, but he did not let it break fully. "I don’t know who told her that" he continued more quietly. "But I never cheated" April’s anger did not disappear, but something inside he