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Liam didn't rush to answer Rita's question. He simply dipped his head and continued to eat porridge.

One sip.

Two sips.

Three sips down, he continued, "I thought you'd been threatened to break up with me, and yet... you didn't have any communications from that night."

As Liam spoke, Rita's nervous body tensed.

As she listened to the end, her unease and fear turned into Bewilderment with a capital B.

No... no communications?

That wasn't right, she had a conversation with Michael.

Why didn't Liam find out about that?

Was it that-

Someone wiped her logs?

Even though she didn't understand where things had taken a turn, the real reason behind her breakup hadn't come out, and her heart slid back down her throat to rest in her torso.

Rita took a deep breath, steadied her emotions, and sneered, playing the ice queen until the end. "I said from the beginning that there was no threat and no inside story. I never loved you.

Believe me this time?"

Behind her, Liam continued to eat h