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

Chapter 6

“Well, poor me. My husband doesn’t even know my true character after two years of marriage,” Cynthia blurted out.

Joshua was speechless yet again.

Was she really not satisfied unless she provoked him?

“Let’s go home.” He loosened his tie, grabbed her purse, and held her wrist as he walked out.

Cynthia hesitated.

Joshua paused as well.

Both of their gazes landed simultaneously on the purse in Joshua’s hand. Did he mistake her for Jayleen? That was Cynthia’s first thought.

Without further explanation, Joshua strode out quickly.

This scene was witnessed by Jayleen, who was in the hospital room. The gentleness on her face vanished, and she did not even care about the red marks her nails left on her palms as her hands gripped each other hard.

In a moment, the door to the hospital room opened.

Jayleen’s friend walked in, voicing her confusion, “Didn’t Cynthia hire someone to hit you? Why is Mr. Neal still…”

“It wasn’t her.” Jayleen furrowed her brows.

At first, she thought Cynthia was behind the incident, as Cynthia might be worried that she was taking her place. However, judging by Cynthia’s reaction earlier, things were

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not that simple.

Joshua had arrived at a similar conclusion.

After the driver picked them up, Joshua pulled Cynthia into the back seat with him. Before he could talk about today’s events, Mr. Cheyne called, providing an update on the situation. “Mr. Neal, I’ve looked into the IP address. The account’s login IP address isn’t in Jiverton.”

“I see.” Joshua’s eyes darkened.

his phone felt incredibly heavy in his hand. He knew he had wronged

glow on her face, where he could faintly see the fine fuzz. At this moment, she seemed to have shed her earlier confrontational demeanor and had reverted to the gentle, well–behaved person she used

and his handsome face tinged with a

had overheard the phone conversation and replied nonchalantly, “Mr. Neal, please

Why could she not just

Jiverton doesn’t mean I didn’t have her harmed. What if I called someone else and had them bribe the driver responsible for the accident?” Cynthia said lightly, but her words

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knew she was just trying to provoke him. He wanted to apologize, but the words just would not come out. After much

reasoned that if she had indeed been responsible, she would not be

all Cynthia said. She didn’t even bother to

the matter and remembering the harsh words he had exchanged with her in the parking lot and hospital room, he took out

Cynthia replied as she

not expecting her to agree so readily. Suddenly, Cynthia’s voice rang out again, asking for

are the other cards?” she

creeping over him,

indecent conduct at the hospital, I want you to hand over all your cards as a precaution. I’ll return them on the day

driver could not believe what he

do so?”

the atmosphere in the car grew tense, “Today’s mishap was due to my poor judgment,

was incredulous. Was he

that so?”

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

contrast, you would have doubted me without hesitation when you learned about Jayleen’s accident and saw those chat

argue, but he found that her statement was not entirely

could not understand why she was so upset over someone so insignificant,

word in before Cynthia’s voice rang out again. However, this time, her

off at the next

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

feeling the chill, asked in a heavy voice, “What

you going to do?”

replied, having regained most of her composure. She used the most nonchalant tone to deliver the

contagious.

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