Aiden looked back once last time as he sighed, he wasn’t sure what to respond at the moment.

On one hand, by telling her that he was the one who had killed her and was the murderer, she could have two sorts of reaction: The first one being that she doesn’t mind and isn’t that shocked, and the second being that she would run into the director’s arms to tell him all about it.

Aiden obviously didn’t want the second situation to happen as it would be quite a bad thing since it would ruin his attempt at killing the director and on the same occasion finishing this trial once and for all.

‘It’s not like I can go back to the Nova now after everything that happened… They restricted the use of the [Return Stone] after all.’

Aiden wasn’t sure, he thought and he thought about a way to make this question go away from her mind. However, even if he were to ignore her then the answer would also be given.

It would be clear that it was true and that he had truly killed someone.

Instead of lying or acting like it wasn’t true which could result in Aiden being caught, he decided to do something else entirely. He would be playing with her emotions. Aiden would be pulling on certain emotions to make sure that she wouldn’t reveal what he did to anyone.

He had never done something like this in the past as he usually wouldn’t care about emotions in general. But there was a first for everything, right?

“Do you remember what I said the last time we kissed?” Aiden asked.

He knew that this would blow his cover and reveal that he really was Aiden, but he had no choice if he wanted this to work.

‘Also she already knows, or she wouldn’t have asked that question in the first place,’ Aiden thought as he knew that it was no use to hide his identity after everything that had been said and done between the two.

“I do remember, you told me that I shouldn’t believe everything that I heard,” Evelynn with a smile as she was now 100% sure that the person in front of her was Aiden.

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“So, what do you think? Should you trust what the director said?” Aiden asked.

Evelynn frowned, but still she knew what he meant; he didn’t do it and that’s what he was trying to tell her. However, even from her point of view she had to admit that it was hard to believe, especially after she had seen some of the anger in the eyes of the director when talking about him.

“You really do it? Can you promise?”

Aiden looked at her and sighed, he knew that it wasn’t a good thing to lie to her at the moment which is why he decided to keep his answers as vague as possible he wanted her to be the one judging.

“Well, I can’t tell you, but you shouldn’t trust what everyone says, there’s always another side to a story… Maybe I killed that girl, maybe I didn’t, but remember that there must have been a reason for the actions that I took.”

Aiden was trying to make her understand that it wasn’t his choice that he had killed her, it wasn’t he who had decided to kill her.

‘Actually, maybe it was, but at the beginning it wasn’t, it was just because of what she did after all. So, can it really even be put on me?’

Aiden dismissed those useless thoughts out of his mind as he concentrated back on the conversation at hand. He heard Evelynn’s voice and he wanted to hear what she had to say to him.

“I see, so you won’t tell me, huh? Why? Is it because you don’t trust me?”

Aiden preferred to keep his mouth shut this time as he knew that only problems would arise from such a situation and he didn’t want such a thing to happen.

“You know sometimes silence is an answer,” she replied as she was now convinced that Aiden didn’t trust her.

Aiden noticed the change of look in her eyes as she was hurt that Aiden didn’t trust her after everything that happened between the two of them recently.

“It’s not like that… It’s not that I don’t believe you or something remotely close to that. It’s just that… I don’t know if things could go wrong if I told you and I don’t want to take that risk, it could put you in danger,” Aiden said as he was trying to convince her that it wasn’t a good idea to tell her.

However, contrary to his expectations, she didn’t back down as she kept looking at him straight in the eyes.

“Just tell me, I don’t care if it’s dangerous, I just want to know the truth.”

Aiden looked at her and he knew about the risks of telling her, but he wasn’t sure if it was a good idea. What if she started hating him out of nowhere?

“Why do you want to know so much?” Aiden asked as he needed help to figure out what decision he would need to take.

Evelynn smiled when she heard that question as she had a good answer in mind, “It’s simple, I just want to stay with you and help you, especially if that son of a bitch of a director is trying to kill you or whatever.”

Evelynn knew that was the main reason why Aiden was hesitant. Aiden knew that the director might go after her and she had to admit that she was touched.

However, what Evelynn didn’t know was how wrong she was. Sure, Aiden cared about her and all but that wasn’t the reason why he didn’t want to tell her. The real reason was that she was a liability to his assassination.

“Hm, right still I don’t think it’s a good idea, sorry,” Aiden said.

He looked into the eyes of Evelynn and he knew that it was hurting her.

“I just can’t, sorry…”

Evelynn didn’t want this to end there. She knew that she had to do something to change his mind whatever that was.

And her next option was simple, threaten him…

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