Chapter 97 Casanova in Disguise

• Christopher's perceptive gaze caught the subtle shift in Jake's demeanor, an unsettling gravity briefly darkening his usually jovial expression.
• "The girl you saw last time," Christopher began, his voice trailing off with deliberate hesitancy, "one is Conrad's fiancée, and the other is…"
• The silence that followed hung heavy with unspoken significance, his unfinished sentence brimming with unvoiced revelations.