"Mrs. Massey!"
Ruth could hardly believe it when someone called out to her eagerly. As the woman approached, she even instinctively took a step back.
But the woman had already linked arms with her. Then, she said with a bright smile, "You're finally here! Everyone's been waiting for you!"
"Waiting for me? Why?" Ruth asked in a strained voice.
To be honest, the scene felt oddly familiar.
Back in her school days, she had seen this play out countless times—someone smiling, all "friendly", as they lured their target to a specific spot. Then, the real fun would begin. It was just that, back then, Ruth was usually the one waiting while others delivered the target to her.
Now that the roles were reversed, all she felt was a deep, gnawing unease. In fact, she had sensed something was off when she received the invitation call earlier.
After all, her lies about being close friends with Noelle had already been exposed at the auction. In the past few days, she had even been kicked out of group chats. Yet today, they had reached out to her first. That alone was suspicious.
Still, Ruth came anyway. After all, the other attendees were all people of status, and she was a pregnant woman. So no matter what, surely they wouldn't resort to physical violence, right?
As these thoughts ran through her mind, they had already pulled her into a private room. The moment she saw who was inside, her eyes widened slightly.
"Hello, Ruth." Dressed in a custom-made dress, Noelle smiled at Ruth gently from her seat. "We've all been waiting for you."
Ruth stared at the scene before her, expression frozen.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: The Sway and Slide of Love
Like how the story is progressing now but why is the author only releasing 3 chapters at a time? this is torture😩😩...
Woah chapters 41-45 is intense!! Good to see Noelle’s character who has come across as mostly detached actually express emotion....
I find Noelle’s character so frustrating, she comes across lacking any true emotion. The chapters where Rosie was missing was probably the most where we have seen some strong outward emotion shown. Dreading these next few chapters if she is going to do something drastic to “go find Seline” The author has taken us on a rollercoaster with these characters. The novel feels like it is at a stage now where they can come full circle....
A good change of pace and story in the last 10 chapters. Good to see the shift in Hendrix’s character (more patience) to win over Noelle and Rosie. Hope we start to see them warm up to him. Please no crazy twist where he loses them again. Have enjoyed this story and looking forward to its wrap up👨👩👧...
A good change of pace in the last 10 chapters. Also nice to see a shift in Hendrix’s character (more patience) to win Noelle and Rosie over. Hoping in these next few chapters we start to see Noelle and Rosie warm up to him. Please no crazy twist where he loses them again. Have enjoyed this story and looking forward to its wrap up 👨👩👧...
I have been in love with this novel but I don’t know how much patience I have to wait until the to finish line. Dear Author, can you atleast give us some idea about how long is this going to be or if there’s any turning point coming soon. And it would be great if you could upload at least 10 chapters at once. 5 chapters is making me more impatience with the anticipation of the further story of novel🙈...
I really hope there is a turning point in this story where Noelle starts to show some interest in Hendrix...