The Cold Surgeon's Contract Bride novel Chapter 557

"Selena, we've been together for three years. You should know who I am. I despise lying. I know you're smart enough to see the truth. You must know deep down exactly who I'm doing this for," Ferris said, his expression turning deadly serious.

I instantly choked on my words. The air plunged into a heavy silence, leaving only the mechanical hum of the elevator steadily ascending.

Meeting Ferris's pitch-black gaze, a bizarre feeling suddenly washed over me.

Ferris truly wasn't a liar. He wasn't smooth or manipulative; in fact, he was rigidly principled to a fault. He had climbed to his current position entirely on the back of his flawless professional skills.

But... was he really telling the truth right now?

Was everything he did genuinely not for Zoey?

He gave me a house, gave me money, and tracked me down just to passionately warn me off Caspian... Was all of that truly for me?

Then why was he doing it?

We were already divorced, and he had never loved me. Why would he care so intensely about my personal life?

It was chaos. My heart was in complete chaos. I opened my mouth, then closed it, utterly unable to form a single word.

The sudden blare of a ringtone shattered the suffocating silence. I snapped out of my daze and looked down alongside Ferris.

This time, the name glowing on the screen was Zoey.

That name acted like a bucket of ice water, pulling me straight out of my brief lapse into confusion.