C70 Chapter 70

“We're very good friends. He permitted me to stay in his house because it wasn't safe staying at my husband's house,” Alice answered him with her eyes narrowed.

“Just friends?”

“Sure,” she replied again, and she batted her lashes.

The apartment was a bit far from a place far from literally everyone who knows her. That's exactly what she asked—not to be close to them.

Alice settled in and