Mr. Neal, Mrs. Neal’s Gone With The Money

Chapter 5

Jayleen looked at Joshua and said something ambiguous, “I’ll listen to Joshua’s orders.”

“Joshua, are you willing to show me?” Cynthia’s beautiful eyebrows lifted slightly.

Joshua looked at her feigned innocence and, without saying much, picked up a phone from the table, opened WhatsApp, and handed her the conversation after scrolling through the chat history.

Cynthia took it and read the contents.

[Mrs. Neal: If you help me get rid of Jayleen, I’ll pay off your debt and give you another hundred thousand.]

[Driver: How do I know you’ll keep your word?]

[Mrs. Neal: I’m Joshua’s wife; a hundred thousand is nothing to me.]

[Driver: I’ll trust you this time, but if you back out, I’ll make a scene at Neal Group!]

[Driver: Send me a photo.]

[Mrs. Neal: Picture]

[Mrs. Neal: Make it clean.]

Cynthia finished reading and asked, “That’s it?”

Joshua looked down at her, searching for a hint of panic on her face but found none. “That’s it.”

Cynthia returned the phone, calmly analyzing the situation.

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It wasn’t me. With Mr. Neal’s resources, it shouldn’t be difficult to find out who’s behind this account.”

“The account is new and unverified,” Joshua replied coldly.

Cynthia suggested, “You can track the IP address.”

to be particularly clever. In the past, he had always solved her problems. Now

person.

to tell me the IP address is

prompted when he

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instead gave an order, Cheyne, have the tech department traced all the IP addresses associated with this

“Yes, sir.”

the phone, genuinely afraid that if he stayed any longer, Mrs.

you sure it wasn’t you?” Joshua’s voice remained cold, his

first thought was that Cynthia was responsible. After all, her recent actions had shattered his previous impressions of her. The woman who did not care about money demanded

time with me, you should investigate how the hit–and–run driver

reasoned, not engaging

could speak,

“What?” he asked.

you should do is call the police.” Cynthia reminded him, her gaze resting on his handsome

when he found out it was Cynthia, his first reaction was to confront her instead of calling the

grew between them. In Joshua’s eyes, all he could see was her reflection. Her usually smiling eyes blinked gently, her curled lashes fluttering like butterfly

eye contact until Jayleen’s voice

“Yes?”

want to rest

unmistakable undertone of dismissal. Cynthia, however, had no intention of letting her rest. She stood by the bedside, a faint curve at the corner of her lips. “Before you rest, Ms. Shaw, shouldn’t you apologize to

Jayleen asked

and called her name

of you

you falsely accused

sorry,” Jayleen quickly apologized, her voice full

tightened. “I saw the name Mrs. Neal and

her a taste of her own medicine. “I see, I thought you might have staged this

didn’t!” Jayleen

“Cynthia!” Joshua was angry.

the big deal? Can’t I make a

how you make a joke?” Joshua instinctively protected his beloved. “I know you don’t like her, but there’s no need to smear her. Take it out on me if

over a joke. Did you ever get this upset for me when she seriously

and his deep and cold eyes were unreadable. “Joshua,”