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.

came from the other end of

that he must have

see you,” she stated coldly. “Tonight, in fact. I will be waiting for

emergency? I promised my bros I would stay up with them the whole night. I can’t just leav—” he started to give

waiting for you at home no matter how late it

hung up

when she finally couldn’t hold her emotions in anymore, and

up by

even turn on the lights before she blankly sat on the sofa without moving

until the wee hours of the next morning when the sound of the house door

he turned on the

recovered into a concerned one. “What are you doing here? Why aren’t you sleeping in the

as he spoke and just as he was about to

her. “Okay, okay. I am sorry, Winona. It is my fault.

me?!” She suddenly roared as she jumped up

is wrong, Winona?

hit by a sudden dizziness when she abruptly stood up. With her hand holding her head, she turned the other way

himself in alcohol and smoke. “Oh, my bad! I will go take a shower, and then I will go to bed

stopped him. “There are things that won’t be clean no matter how many times you wash them. Tell me—how

Craig continued to play the part of a

 

to feel nauseous with every word he spouted. “Just stop. Let’s break up. I have packed up all your stuff and left them at the front

face fell. “I know that 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

meaning, different words. Winona had heard

would always end up with hot tears in her eyes whenever Craig spewed his nonsense in the past. Their quarrels would come to a resolution with her wiping away her tears as she envisioned the beautiful future awaiting them. Today, however,

putting pressure on you. Does this mean that I was the one who forced you to go to that rich woman? That I was the one who grabbed you by the head and pressed your lips

been struck by thunder. “H-How

the one who told you these? How could you believe his words, Winona? It is not like you don’t

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