The Headline Queen: President Hawthorne is Her Die-Hard Fan! Chapter 192: Surveillance

Paige Sterling suddenly felt like she had stepped into Rashomon.

She didn’t want to tangle with Angus Langdon any further and certainly didn’t want him to misunderstand. She said, "This thing has a brand, and the counter notes down every custor’s na and contact details. You can take it to the counter and ask who sent it to you. Whoever sent it, go find them. I don’t have ti to deal with this with you."

After saying that, she turned to Julian Hawthorne, "Let’s go."

Angus Langdon wasn’t satisfied with this and went to the counter to verify, just to prove Paige Sterling wrong.

The result left him stunned.

The person who bought the watch turned out to be... Skylar Hughes?!

And he foolishly took what Skylar Hughes had given him to Paige Sterling, making a fool of himself?

Angus Langdon found Skylar Hughes, "This watch was obviously bought by you and given to . Why did you say it was from Paige Sterling?"

Skylar Hughes hung her head, at a loss for words to explain.

Seeing her appear both shy and nervous, Angus Langdon’s expression changed to one of shock, "You don’t like , do you?"

Thinking back, no wonder Skylar Hughes jumped into the water to save him back then.

Skylar Hughes, "..."

Angus Langdon, the fool, actually asked directly. She was stuck whether she admitted to liking him or not.

If she said she liked him, the ambiguity would be lost, because she genuinely didn’t want to be with Angus Langdon.

If she said she didn’t like him, then there’d be no way out in the future, and she couldn’t keep Angus Langdon as a backup plan.

So she just stayed silent and didn’t answer.

And in Angus Langdon’s eyes, her silence was an agreent.

This made things tricky. He didn’t like Skylar Hughes, so what should he do?

But Skylar Hughes had saved his life. If he rejected her too bluntly, wouldn’t it hurt her self-esteem?

"Well, you actually know, I..."

"You don’t have to say it; I understand," Skylar Hughes’ eyes glistened with moisture, "I won’t cling to you, rest assured..."

However, the more she spoke like this, the more her expression beca sorrowful.

Seeing this, Angus Langdon felt he shouldn’t say anything further and thought he’d need to keep his distance from Skylar Hughes in the future. But he worried that being too obvious would be too much for the delicate Skylar Hughes to bear.

So every ti he t Skylar Hughes afterward, it was at the swimming pool, using the excuse of having her teach him to swim, hoping Skylar Hughes would understand that he only felt gratitude, not romantic affection.

What gratitude! Skylar Hughes wanted to vomit at the sight of the swimming pool now.

To avoid getting in the water, she kept finding excuses until she ran out of them.

Angus Langdon genuinely believed her excuses, thinking her irregular periods were a serious illness. To show his concern, he found an old Chinese dicine doctor who prescribed her dication, already brewed in secret, ready for her to consu upon his insistence each ti they t.

The dicine was so bitter she nearly passed out.

If she didn’t know Angus Langdon ant well, she would have thought he was playing a prank on her.

Skylar Hughes wasn’t sick at all; she just used it as an excuse.

After taking the dicine for days, she actually developed symptoms, inexplicably getting nosebleeds and feeling dizzy.

At the hospital, the doctor said her symptoms were from taking the wrong dicine.

Angus Langdon felt awkward, "My mom said that old Chinese doctor was quite effective; she always sought him for treatnt. Turns out he was a quack."

The doctor prescribed a plaster for Skylar Hughes to apply to the back of her neck, saying it could treat dizziness.

Skylar Hughes handed the plaster to Angus Langdon, "Angus, can you help apply this?"

Angus Langdon nodded and moved closer to help her apply the plaster.

Skylar Hughes tilted her head slightly, and from Angus Langdon’s angle, he could clearly see her fair neck.

Angus Langdon’s expression froze slightly.

Strange, that night at the pool, he had a mont when he opened his eyes and saw the person who pulled him up had a mole near the left side of the neck close to the ear.

But Skylar Hughes’s left neck was spotless, no mole at all.

Could it be that he saw it wrong?

Seeing Angus Langdon not moving, Skylar Hughes looked at him.

"Angus, why are you looking at like that?"

Angus Langdon asked, "I rember the night in the water, I clearly saw a mole here. Why is it gone now?"

Skylar Hughes instinctively touched her neck.

She didn’t have a mole there, but Paige Sterling did.

She held back her panic and said, "You must have been hallucinating due to unconsciousness."

"No, I’m sure it was a mole!"

Recalling the nurous reasons Skylar Hughes had for not getting into the water these days, Angus Langdon finally had a mont of clarity.

"Skylar, that night, was it really you who saved from the water?"

Skylar Hughes looked at him, "Angus, what do you an by that?"

Tears welled up in Skylar Hughes’ eyes, "Do you think I’m lying to you?"

She seed a bit angry, "Wasn’t I the first person you saw when you opened your eyes?"

Seeing Skylar Hughes so aggrieved, Angus Langdon quickly said, "I was just asking, don’t overthink it."

Despite his words, Angus Langdon still had doubts.

He sohow thought of Paige Sterling’s speed in the water and the more he thought about it, the more he felt sothing was amiss, leading to a terrifying thought—could Paige Sterling have been the one to save him back then?

To prove it wasn’t Paige Sterling, to set his mind at ease, Angus Langdon went to the staff to request and review the surveillance tapes.

He genuinely watched the footage just to confirm it wasn’t Paige Sterling.

Yet, when he saw the tapes, he was dumbfounded—it was indeed Paige Sterling.

Back then, she and Mona Wright had fallen into the water together; Paige Sterling had jumped in and pulled both him and Mona to safety, and then she went to change her clothes. Skylar Hughes only appeared as he was regaining consciousness, so when he opened his eyes and saw Skylar Hughes performing chest compressions, he thought it was her.

And Skylar Hughes had never denied it from the beginning to the end. What did that imply?

It implied she’d been lying to him all along.

Angus Langdon felt the anger of being deceived.

Skylar Hughes was currently living in his apartnt, so he went directly to her.

"Why did you pretend to be Paige when you clearly weren’t?"

Skylar Hughes hadn’t expected this to be exposed so quickly. She thought with Angus Langdon’s intelligence, as long as Paige Sterling didn’t say anything, Angus would never know.

But the truth surfaced too quickly; Skylar Hughes hadn’t thought about how to respond, so she just hung her head and stayed silent.

Seeing her like this, Angus Langdon thought Skylar Hughes must have lied to him because she liked him too much.

"Forget it, I won’t bla you for this, but don’t lie to ever again."

After Angus left, Skylar Hughes finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, dealing with Angus was easy, but dealing with Mrs. Langdon would be a different story.

Upon learning that Skylar Hughes was living in her son’s house and spending his money, Mrs. Langdon imdiately ca to confront her.