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.

that moment, his phone felt incredibly heavy in his hand. He knew he

where he could

and his handsome face tinged

Neal, please don’t tell me you’re about to apologize to

loss for words. Why could she not

someone else and had them bribe the driver responsible for the

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wanted to apologize, but the words just would not come out. After much consideration, he finally managed

she had indeed been responsible, she would not be so calmly discussing the matter,

Cynthia said. She didn’t even bother

words he had exchanged with her in the parking lot and hospital room, he took out a Centurion card and

replied as she took the

by her brisk response, seemingly not expecting her to agree so readily. Suddenly, Cynthia’s voice rang

the other cards?”

feeling a chill creeping over him,

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

what he

do so?” Cynthia challenged

Joshua replied, becoming angrier as the atmosphere in the car grew tense, “Today’s mishap was due to my poor judgment, but if your behavior these past few days hadn’t been so different

was incredulous. Was he

that so?” she

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

when you learned about Jayleen’s

argue, but he found that her statement was not entirely

irked. She could not understand why she was so upset over someone so insignificant, especially when she already knew that Jayleen

by the card hitting him, Joshua could not even get a word in before Cynthia’s voice rang out again. However, this

drop me off at

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

the chill, asked in a heavy

you going to do?”

walnuts to improve my brain function, “Cynthia replied, having regained most of her composure. She used the most nonchalant tone

contagious.

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