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.

from the other end of the

his unstable breathing that he must have just done some

“Tonight, in fact.

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

will be waiting for you at home no matter how late it

hung up

emotions in anymore, and tears

already dried up

lights before she blankly sat on the sofa without moving a

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

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

“What are you doing here? Why aren’t you sleeping in the bedroom? It is all

sat beside her as he spoke and just as he was about to reach out to

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

when I said not to touch me?!” She suddenly roared as she jumped up from the sofa,

Winona? Are

whole night, Winona was hit by a sudden dizziness when she abruptly stood up. With her hand holding her head,

in alcohol and smoke. “Oh, my

no matter how many times you wash them. Tell

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

 

every word he spouted. “Just stop. Let’s break up. I have packed up all your stuff and left them at the front door. You can leave my home after you take

on a pitiful act as his 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 only wanted to get my excess energy out of my system so I don’t burden you with my emotions. Regardless, I love you. I will not allow us to break up.

words. Winona had heard these no less than 10

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

the one who is 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

felt like he had been struck by thunder. “H-How did you

for her 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 is not like you don’t know how he got me blacklisted in the industry. That

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