His Smokescreen Is Now the Woman He Can’t Have Chapter 24

His Smokescreen Is Now the Woman He Can’t Have Chapter 24

Caleb answered her with a gaze as cold and hard as ice.

“Why did you lie to me?”

The grievance on Isabelle’s face stiffened. Before she could play the victim again, Caleb raised his hand and seized her chin, his grip tight enough to make her wince.

“You told me that from the day we were new cadets, Elara was targeting you, bullying you.” His voice was low and hoarse, each word heavy. “But I spent all night on the forums. Those posts, those videos… they all show that the person who was truly ostracized at West Point was never you. It was Elara.”

In truth, when Caleb first met me, he hadn’t disliked me. The quiet girl who always stood at the edge of the crowd, whose eyes were so bright when she looked at people—she hadn’t repulsed him at all.

It was Isabelle who had cried in his ear day after day, telling him how jealous I was, how I deliberately isolated her, how I used my father’s scandal to play the victim.

Over time, he had grown more and more irritated with me.

He hated my silence, mistaking it for sullenness.

He hated my clumsiness, mistaking it for incompetence.

Until last night, when piece after piece of evidence landed before his eyes, and he finally realized—

It had all been a lie.

My incompetence was a shield.

Isabelle’s elegance and dignity were just a facade.

From the very beginning, he had put his faith in the wrong person.