The Captain I Married by Chance novel Chapter 492

"Couldn't you tell that I liked him?"

Meeting Valerie's teasing, half-smiling gaze, Nora's heart skipped a beat as she instantly realized she had walked right into a trap.

"You did that on purpose!"

Valerie laughed out loud. "How else was I supposed to hear your true feelings?"

"Man, what a shame. If I had known, I would have recorded that. Your Captain Peyton would have died of happiness hearing you say that."

Nora gave her a light pinch.

"Stop making fun of me."

Seeing that Nora was genuinely flustered, Valerie quickly nodded.

"Alright, alright, I'll drop it."

Valerie sighed, her expression full of awe. "I just never expected you two to be so passionate behind closed doors."

"Valerie!"

Didn't you just say you'd drop it?

"Hahaha!"

Valerie was practically rolling with laughter.

She really wanted to stop, but the image of them kept replaying in her mind, and the words just slipped out automatically.

Afraid that Nora would actually get angry, Valerie rubbed her own cheeks and took a deep breath. "Okay, I'm seriously done this time."

Nora shot her a sidelong glance.

Seeing the sincerity in Valerie's eyes, a faint smile finally touched Nora's lips.

"You can joke all you want, as long as you don't get shy when it's my turn to tease you."

Valerie's eye twitched.

But refusing to back down, she lifted her chin stubbornly. "You think I'd get shy? Please, do I look like that kind of person?"

Nora just smiled and said nothing.

Everyone knew Valerie loved to talk a big game.

But if someone actually caught her being intimate with her boyfriend, she'd probably hide from the world for days.

Valerie clearly lacked confidence in her own bluff. Seeing Nora's knowing look, she finally waved a white flag.

Even though her own mother was ill and rarely lucid.

The pressure to get married was still a frequent topic of conversation.

But thinking back on it now, Nora realized her mother had barely brought up marriage this entire year.

And she had spent most of her time sleeping.

Since her mother was in the hospital year-round and interacted with Aaron frequently, she must have figured something out long ago.

A pang of intense guilt swelled in Nora's chest.

She had been far too careless. If she had just visited her mother more often, she might have caught Aaron's cheating much sooner and spared her mother from all that suffering.

"Alright, let's stop overthinking."

Seeing Nora looking equally distressed, Valerie didn't want her own problems to ruin her best friend's mood.

"Let's just go to sleep. Oh, by the way, what kind of case have you guys been investigating lately?"

Nora grabbed her pajamas and headed toward the bathroom, answering casually over her shoulder, "A dismemberment case."

"Dismemberment?"