Under the Heiress' Facade novel Chapter 227

The three of them suddenly felt a chill down their spines. When they turned around, they saw Hera, who had come downstairs at some point, staring at them emotionlessly.

"Do I really look that unhappy?" Hera asked.

Lilith and Gino nodded repeatedly. "No." Then, they realized what was wrong and shook their heads vigorously. "Yes."

Both Gideon and Hera were rendered speechless.

Hera smiled slightly. "You guys are overthinking it. I'm alright." After saying that, she poured herself a glass of water and went back upstairs.

Gideon and Gino didn't know how to respond for a moment.

Lilith said, "It looks like things are pretty serious, right?"

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Upstairs, Hera went back to her room and looked at her WhatsApp message list. Bernard's profile picture was at the top, and the red dot in the corner indicated that she had muted him.

She tapped on it, and the latest message was from three days ago.

"Sweetie, your new profile picture looks good, but it would be perfect if you changed it to this one."

The message included a photo of the two of them. She was squatting on the beach, looking up at Bernard, and they were staring into each other's eyes. Douglas was the one who took that photo of them.

After sending that photo, Bernard didn't send any more messages. He also hadn't called her in the past two days.

Hera thought Bernard must have sensed that she was deliberately distancing herself from him, so he stopped reaching out to her.

She tapped on the photo of the two of them and gazed at it for a while before quietly saving it to her phone's gallery. After locking her phone screen, she opened her data records from that week's pharmaceutical work and started to summarize them.