Jacqueline pressed her pale lips together and coughed twice. “I just wanted to apologize. I know you and Shane just got married, and I didn’t mean to ruin your wedding night.”

“So you’re calling to say sorry?” Natalie asked with a raised eyebrow.

Joyce rolled her eyes and mouthed, “As if!”

Apologize? Hah! What a joke! She’s clearly calling to brag!

Natalie could practically read Joyce’s mind and nearly giggled out loud before placing her attention back on Jacqueline.

On the other side of the phone, Jacqueline’s mouth quirked up into a sinister smirk that didn’t match the apologetic tone she spoke in. “Yes. I really want to say sorry, Ms. Smith. I didn’t know Shane would suddenly show up. Maybe if I’d known earlier about Jackie calling him…”

“What would you do, then?” Natalie cut her off bluntly.

Jacqueline’s eyes darkened and she was about to speak when Natalie suddenly cut her off again. “If you’d known, you wouldn’t have drunk yourself sick?”

“What do you mean, Ms. Smith? Are you insinuating that I did it on purpose?” Jacqueline clutched her phone tightly.

other reason!” Joyce could not help

 

furrowed at the sudden voice.

is pretty bad, huh? To think you were so friendly to me when you visited Stanley.” Joyce rolled

 

widened her eyes. “Ah. You’re Ms.

Joyce lifted her chin and admitted

I don’t really have any interaction, right? So

that I’m Nat’s best friend. You messing with

“Of course-”

without waiting for her to finish. “You did it on purpose knowing that Nat and Mr. Shane just got married. You decided to drink yourself sick so you could snatch Mr.

didn’t!” Jacqueline insisted as she

like you can

Jacqueline couldn’t defend herself and

let’s not make her too angry. If

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