Chapter 427

North instinctively wanted to turn around but forcefully held back the urge. “It’s got nothing to do with me. He doesn’t have to tell me why.”

It seemed that Abraham saw right through her. “Is it that you can’t be bothered to ask, Ms. North, or that you don’t dare to ask?”

The question was a simple one, but the connotations were drastically different.

If she could not be bothered, then it meant that North did not care for Gerald at all. Thus, she did not trouble herself to care who Gerald spent his time with.

If she did not dare to ask, then it meant that she cared about Gerald too much. So much so that she did not hear his answer.

North frowned and sidestepped this trap. “I don’t want to talk about Reina at all.”

Abraham’s smile widened. “Then do you like Gerald, Ms. North?”

North felt like Abraham was only here to make her life difficult. Why did he have to keep asking her questions she could not answer?

When he saw her keep quiet, Abraham’s eyes flashed, and he stopped askin