Chapter 320. Act Scared

LEE

“Wasn’t what you did dangerous? What if the police find out that you hired a hitman to pretend to be another stalker just to catch your real one?” Damon abruptly stood from his chair, running a hand through his hair as he paced back and forth. His brows furrowed deeply, a clear sign of both his worry and growing frustration.

“Why… why would Ashton even agree to this? And why did you think this plan would actually work?” His voice rose slightly, and his sharp tone was accompanied by an incredulous raise of his brow. He dragged his hands down his face, clearly exasperated.

I told him about Von—how we hired him—but I left out the part about my real identity, that I was from the future. I also didn’t tell him that we had hired Von before any of this chaos started, which triggered this entire chain of events. What was meant to happen next year had been accelerated because of what we’d asked Von to do: provoke our stalker and make him believe there was another