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.”

be particularly clever. In the past, he had always solved her problems. Now it seemed that she

person.

not going to tell me the

when he did

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

“Yes, sir.”

he stayed any longer, Mrs. Neal would

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

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 so much

time with me, you should investigate how the hit–and–run driver knew Miss Shaw’s itinerary

engaging

speak,

“What?” he asked.

thing you should do is call the police.” Cynthia reminded him,

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

a moment, their eyes locked, and an odd atmosphere grew between them. In Joshua’s eyes, all he could see was her reflection. Her usually smiling eyes

until Jayleen’s voice interrupted Joshua’s

“Yes?”

want to rest

rest. She stood by the bedside, a

Jayleen asked and

and called her name with a hint of

set aside the issue of

fact that you falsely accused me,” Cynthia

quickly apologized, her

as her nervous fingers tightened. “I saw the name Mrs. Neal and assumed

replied, giving her a taste of her own medicine. “I see, I thought you might have staged this accident out of jealousy because Joshua was with

didn’t!” Jayleen instinctively defended

“Cynthia!” Joshua was angry.

make a joke?”

his beloved. “I know you don’t like her, but there’s no need to smear her. Take it

a joke. Did you ever get

were unreadable. “Joshua,” Cynthia called

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