Chapter 16

Samuel felt as if he had been struck by lightning. He averted his gaze guiltily, not daring to meet Julie's eyes. "Calm down, Julie. It's not what you think…" He never would have imagined that Julie knew so much about what was going on! He assumed that she only suspected that he was being unfaithful, which was why she had hired a private investigator to look into him. He assumed that she had been heartbroken after the private investigator snapped some photos of him being intimate with Cynthia and sent them to her, leading to her decision to leave him. Before Samuel arrived in Kaubreta, he had prepared a speech that would help him win Julie back. "Julie, you have to believe that I'm innocent. Everything is Cynthia's fault—she's the one who drugged me. I was under the effects of an aphrodisiac. My mind was hazy when I mistook her for you. That's the only reason why I slept with her. "She forced me to continue sleeping with her by threatening to tell you what had happened between us