Loving You In Secret (Vicky and Tyler) novel Chapter 204

Tyler lowered his gaze to look at Vicky's eyes emotionlessly. "A substitute? What makes you think you qualify for that?"

She jolted in shock at how hurtful his words were.

Sheila was right. Though wounds would eventually heal as time passed, the scars that remained would still sting from time to time. Pretending that the past events never happened could not actually erase them from the past.

With a blank look in her eyes, she mumbled, "You're right. I'm not even qualified to be that..."

She had been arrogant.

She blinked, feeling her tears draining as she kept her eyes trained on the man before her. "I once asked if you believe in me, and you've been avoiding the question. Can you give me an answer now? You...have never truly trusted me...have you?"

He stared at her in silence, and she refused to look away.

After a while, he finally said, "Yes."

Though she knew the answer all along, his words still stung her. "If that's the case, why did you send your men to protect me?"

"Though you aren't the target, those people might turn their attention to you when they realize that they can't capture Sheila," Tyler said.

She clenched her fists, and the assumptions she had pushed aside in the past began to surface again. "Tyler, are you...using me as a decoy to protect Sheila?"

He scowled. "What are you talking about?"

He did not bother to explain himself and simply placed his wallet back into the drawer before walking out expressionlessly.

As soon as he stepped out of the room, all strength was drained from her body.

All the heart-warming memories they shared between them over the past months felt like nothing but a joke at that very moment.

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Tyler did not return home since.