Love's Cunning Ruse novel Chapter 346

Groggily, Julie finally got her hands on the phone.

Kieran beside her slung an arm across, draped it over her shoulder, snatched the phone from her, squinted through barely opened eyes at the caller ID, and then decisively hung up.

Dylan, the one calling, cursed when the call was abruptly disconnected.

"Who was that?" Julie mumbled, frowning with her eyes still closed, "Why didn't you answer? A secret flame, perhaps?"

"Secret flame's right here, cuddled up!" he retorted offhandedly, "QuadDylan."

"Oh!" That explained why Mr. Hernandez didn't take the call, “I’m your wife, not the flame.”

"Whatever you say, as long as you’re in my arms.," the man declared with self-assured righteousness.

As Julie was at a loss for words, the ringtone echoed again.

"Answer it..." Julie thought, the incessant calling must mean something urgent.

Kieran thought the same, so he pressed the answer button and switched on the speakerphone, speaking in a cold voice, "If this isn't life or death, you're going to wish it was."

"I want to live a long life!!"

At hearing that, Julie's eyes snapped open, "What's so big that you're calling this early?"

"It's about Camilla's boyfriend—the one I saw in the pictures last time, Simonson? Remember him?" Dylan's voice was frantic over the line.

Kieran coolly replied, "I'm hanging up."

"Wait! I haven't gotten to the good part yet!" Dylan pleaded, "I told you I thought I recognized the guy, right? I may have actually met him! That Simonson is a rich tycoon's grandson, the old man passed away, and the family suspected foul play, probably over an uneven inheritance. They demanded an autopsy, and I happened to be interning at the time, so I've seen Simonson. The family's loaded!"

"Oh, so you're saying Camilla's snagged a catch? That's your big news?" Kieran's voice dripped with disdain, "My finger is on the end call button. Got any last words?"

"Don't hang up! The climax is coming!" Dylan's voice was pumped, "Simonson's getting hitched to Christine, the oil magnate's heiress, today! Are you sure Simonson's Camilla's guy?!"

Kieran's finger, which had been edging towards the end call button, stilled, "What?"

Dylan repeated his statement and added, "I can't be reading fake news, right? But it's right here on the newspapers! It says Simonson and Christine, the oil tycoon's daughter, are tying the knot today, and they've been sweethearts since high school. An enduring romance, separated only briefly during college when Simonson went to study in Zurich. Christine's been waiting for him in Britain, and according to the media, Simonson was engaged to her before heading off to Switzerland."

After Dylan's summary, he said, "So if your Camilla's guy is this Simonson, congrats to her. She's got herself scammed, and this guy's been leading her on under the guise of being single."

"It's not ‘our’ Camilla," Kieran stated.

Julie snatched the phone, "Where are you getting all this news?"

Dylan flipped through the paper in his hand, "Right here in the International Times at my place. Oddly enough, my old man's never been one for international newspapers. Don't know when he subscribed to this one. It was just on the table, I flipped through, and boom, explosive news."

If the news was true, it was indeed explosive. Julie whispered to Kieran, "At the airport, didn't Camilla suggest Simonson was back in Britain? Said it might be a week or more before he returned to Switzerland. Could it be that this Simonson is the same rich kid Dylan's talking about? Did he go to Britain to marry Christine?"

Julie thought that if this was true, it meant that even if Simonson was marrying another woman, he had no intention of telling Camilla. She would be kept in the dark, blindsided by a cheating revelation, and without knowing the truth, she could even become a hidden mistress.

There was a chance Simonson might continue to deceive Camilla under the pretense of being unmarried!

Kieran took the phone back from Julie and swung his legs out of bed, sitting up.