Todos os capítulos de My Ex's Best Friend Is My Fake Boyfriend: Capítulo 41 - Capítulo 50

The gun in Daniel Knight's hand seemed to make the entire basement freeze. Nobody moved. Nobody breathed. I stared at him, unable to understand how the man who had once smiled at school events and shaken my father's hand could now be standing in front of us with a weapon. Jake moved slightly in front of me. “Put the gun down.” Daniel laughed quietly. “You sound just like your father.” Michael's expression hardened. “Daniel, this has gone too far.” “You should have stayed out of it, Michael.” “I tried.” “And failed.” Ethan stepped forward “Dad, what did you do to us?” Daniel looked at him. “You don't understand.” “Then explain it.” “You were children.” “And you erased our memories!” Daniel's jaw tightened. “We protected you.” “By lying to us?” “By keeping you alive.” Chloe shook her head. “That isn't protection.” Daniel looked at her. “Your father understood that.” “My father disappeared because of you.” “No.” Daniel's expression briefly changed. “Your fa

For several seconds, I couldn't understand what my mother had just said.Your father was already dead when I came home.The words seemed to echo through the room.I stared at her.“No.”My mother covered her mouth.“Emma…”“No. You said Dad disappeared.”“I was trying to protect you.”“You told me he left.”“I know.”“You told me he was alive.”“I wanted to believe that.”My voice cracked.“You knew he was dead?”She began crying.“I didn't know what else to tell you.”I stepped backward.Jake immediately came beside me.I barely noticed him.“How did he die?”My mother looked toward the floor.“I don't know.”“You don't know?”“I found him in the house.”“When?”“The night you disappeared.”My heart pounded.“You said I was gone for three days.”“Yes.”“Then how could you find Dad the same night?”She shook her head.“Because your father disappeared before you did.”I stared at her.“What?”She took a shaky breath.“That night, I came home and found your father in his study. He was u

The word alive seemed to burn into my mind. I couldn't stop staring at the pendant in my hand. Lily Carter. My sister and she's alive. After all these years, I had spent my entire childhood believing I was an only child. I had never questioned it because I had never been given a reason to. My parents had never mentioned another child. There were no photographs of her around the house, no old clothes, no birthday cards, nothing. It was as if Lily had never existed. And now I knew that had been a lie. “Emma.” Jake's voice pulled me back. “We need to go.” I looked toward the window. The car across the street was still there. “Whoever is inside knows we're here.” Ethan picked up the wooden box. “Then let's move.” We slipped through the back door and hurried into the narrow alley behind the house. Nobody spoke until we were several streets away. Finally, Chloe stopped. “Where are we going?” I looked at the pendant. “I don't know.” Jake stepped beside me. “We need some

My mother's face had gone completely white.I stared at the hidden doorway.“Who are you?”There was no answer.Jake immediately moved closer to me.“Everyone stay together.”Ethan turned toward the wall.“How do we get out?”“I don't know,” my mother whispered.Chloe looked around the room.“There has to be another exit.”We searched quickly.The hidden room was small, but it was packed with old boxes, documents, and photographs.Jake pushed against the walls.“ Still nothing.”Ethan checked the floor.“There's something here.”He pointed toward a metal handle beneath the desk.Jake pulled it.A section of the floor opened.“There’s a passage.”My mother grabbed my arm.“Don't go down there.”“Why mum?”“Because that's how Lily disappeared.”I froze.“What?”“She went through that passage.”“When exactly?”“The night your father died.”Jake looked at the opening.“Then it may lead outside.”“We don't have a choice,” Ethan said.The voice came again.“You should have listened to your

Mr. Harris's footsteps stopped just outside the hidden room.I could hear my own heartbeat pounding in my ears.Jake was beside me, his hand wrapped tightly around mine.Sarah stood near the wall, completely still.My mother was holding her breath.Ethan and Chloe were crouched behind the desk.Then the doorknob turned.Jake leaned toward me.“When I tell you to run, run.”I shook my head.“What about everyone else?”“We stay together.”The door opened.Mr. Harris stepped inside.He looked exactly the way I remembered him.Neat shirt.Dark trousers.Calm expression.The same man who had always smiled whenever he saw me in the school hallway.The same man who had once told me that everything would eventually get better after my breakup with Ethan.Now he looked at me as though he had known all along that this moment would come.I stood slowly.“You lied to me.”He sighed.“I never lied about everything.”“You knew about Aster.”“Yes.”“You knew my father.”“Yes.”“You knew Lily.”His e