Chapter 708: Jack Was the One Who Framed Me

The silence that ensued felt very long.

Time seemed to pass in a blur before Winona finally came back to her senses. Still, she put on an unperturbed expression as though nothing had happened while she calmly sent Elise back home.

The two women who knew each other well didn’t say a word throughout the journey.

However, Elise couldn’t hold herself back any longer after she got out of the car. Walking to the car window, she said softly to Winona, “Be careful on your way back. You can call me anytime if there is something.”

It was probably because of what Mica had to go through that Elise didn’t dare intervene directly.

“I’m alright,” Winona said with a bitter smile. She swiftly changed the topic by adding, “I might have to take a leave for tomorrow, though.”

“It’s fine. I’ll be heading to Salt Stone City anyway. You can take a rest for as long as you need to, and you will still be paid your salary,” Elise stated with a chuckle.

“Thank you, Elise.”

Winona knew that this was Elise’s way of consoling her after what she had also seen.

Still, she felt too weak to continue forcing a smile.

After an unnatural smile appeared on her pursed lips, she made a U-turn and drove off.

Elise only stood there by the roadside, an uneasy feeling in her chest as she watched the headlights of the car slowly being engulfed by the dark of the night.

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Winona had only been driving for a while before she decided to give Craig a call.

voice only came from the other

from his unstable breathing that he must have just

see you,” she stated coldly. “Tonight, in fact.

Is this an emergency? I promised my bros I would stay up with them the whole night. I can’t just leav—”

you at

immediately hung up after she said

couldn’t hold her emotions in anymore,

had already dried up by the time she

lights before she blankly sat on the

of the next morning when the sound of the house door being unlocked

yawning, and as he turned on the lights of the living room, he jumped in surprise when he saw

recovered into a concerned one. “What are you doing here? Why aren’t you sleeping in the bedroom? It is all my fault.

was about to reach out to hug her,

her. “Okay, okay. I am sorry, Winona. It

I said not to touch me?!” She suddenly roared

wrong, Winona? Are

look at me with those eyes.” On top of not sleeping the whole night, Winona was hit by a sudden dizziness when she abruptly stood up. With her hand holding her head,

and smoke. “Oh, my bad! I will go take a shower, and then I will go to bed with you for a

won’t be clean no matter how many times you wash them. Tell me—how long have you been doing

by ‘how long’?” Craig continued to play the part of a loving boyfriend. “Don’t do this, Winona. It hurts me to

 

stuff and left them at the

I shouldn’t go out and have fun with my friends because I have no income now. I might look like I am not serious about my work, but I only wanted to get my excess energy out of

Winona had heard these no less than 10

would come to a resolution with her wiping away her tears as she envisioned the beautiful future

turned back and looked at him with eyes full of disdain. “You make it sound like I am the one who is putting pressure on you. Does this mean that I was the one who forced you to go to that rich

like he had been

answer, he blurted out, “It was Jack Griffith, wasn’t it? Was he the one who told you these? How could you believe his words, Winona? It

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