Chapter 273

Liam was silent again like he was contemplating some things. After a while, he muttered, "Mr. Grayson Senior came to me, asking me to befriend you so you would leave Ethan alone. I didn't think things would progress the way it did. I—" Before he could finish his sentence, I had already understood it all. So it was true. He was hired by the Graysons to befriend me, all so I would leave Ethan alone. Bitterness bubbled in my heart. The person I have always trusted had been using me all these while. I closed my eyes. I didn't want my emotions to continue running amok. I knew I couldn't be defeated this easily. I needed to be strong in the face of all of these. As the car slowly came to a halt, I opened my eyes and looked at the world outside the car window. Agony filled my heart. So this was what it felt like to be betrayed. How I wished he told me that he befriended me because he felt that I was a pretty decent person and that he loved me, not because of the lucrative sum that the