Chapter 600

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"OK".

Raegan and Henley didn't go far, the location of their talk outside of Mitchel's living room.

Mitchel was able to catch their conversation with the door open.

Knowing Mitchel's tendency to be jealous, Raegan did it deliberately so that he would hear them.

Henley found this exciting, his mind racing thinking of how to piss off Mitchel even more. Looking at Raegan with a look of affection, he asked, “Raegan, what did you mean?”

Next, a sharp sound resounded. Raegan punched Henley firmly in the face.

Henley stood stunned as Raegan enunciated each word clearly: “That was my message!”

Henley's jaw dropped.

The hallway fell into an eerie silence.

The confident smile disappeared from Henley's face, replaced by a somber look. "Raegan, is this a joke?"

"Mr. “Brooks, you were the one who started this charade,” Raegan replied.

This formal address immediately darkened Henley's expression. Raegan refused to use his first name or acknowledge him as part of the Dixon family.

«What do you mean by our past? I have no idea". Raegan crossed her arms.

Henley's lips curved into a thin smile. “Raegan, do you need me to spell it for you? Wouldn't that make Mitchel jealous?

"Go ahead, please."

Raegan, we were once very close, right?

"Interesting!" A scoff escaped Raegan. "Mr. Brooks, are you suffering from any delusions? "We were never intimate."

Raegan felt like she had been too naïve in the past. Back then, I always assumed the best in people and didn't see through facades.

Raegan looked at Henley's crumbling facade and said coldly, "Are you alluding to your orchestrated efforts to befriend me, to drive a wedge between Mitchel and me, and your switch to bullying when your advances were rebuffed?" "Is that your definition of 'closeness'?"

“Raegan.” Henley's gaze was intense, overflowing with emotion. «Have you forgotten? Mitchel was the one who never trusted you and caused you pain. Back then, I tried to defend you. But, unfortunately, I was helpless. I had thought about it multiple times, that if I had been powerful to protect you, maybe you would have truly cared, choosing me over him.

“Do you really believe your words?” Raegan looked at Henley with disdain. Or did you simply consider me a pawn in your game?

Reflecting on the past, Raegan noted Henley's repeated timely arrival whenever she had a fight with Mitchel. And with her arrival and her deceitful words, Mitchel, a man prone to jealousy, always threw a tantrum. In those days, naïve Raegan refused to set the record straight due to her clear conscience and Mitchel's lack of trust in her.

It was clear that Henley had been manipulating Raegan from the beginning, with the goal of sowing discord between her and Mitchel. And now, Henley, the man Raegan considered a confidant, was trying to manipulate her again.

Raegan's face clouded with fury. Without a moment's hesitation, he said, "Mr. Brooks, let me make this clear. My feelings towards you have never exceeded friendship.

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