Chapter 980

The excuse of borrowing medicine was something Cindy came up with on the spot for Bruce; it was his lie, and I was merely playing along with him in a performance. But everyone was smart enough to see through it. It was obviously a lie. He definitely didn't come to me to borrow medicine. What kind of weather was it? Where would mosquitoes come from? How could they bite Bruce's neck through so many layers of clothing? Even if a mosquito had bitten him on the neck, how could he have scratched himself through all those thick clothes? It was all a lie. The truth was simple—he had spent the night at my house, and we shared a night together. He even made me breakfast. Maeve saw through it, and Cindy knew, too. Jonah... he was just as clear-eyed. However, he chose to believe the lie and ignore the glaring truth. Why? Why did he do that? I couldn't understand, or maybe I already knew the answer, but I chose to ignore it. "Jonah, actually—" I wanted to tell him the truth. But befor