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.

felt incredibly heavy in his

car window. Sunlight streamed through the half–lowered window, casting a glow on her face, where he could faintly see the fine fuzz. At this moment, she seemed to

her, and his handsome face tinged with

Neal, please don’t tell

at a loss for words. Why could she not just talk to him

because the IP address isn’t in 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,

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He wanted to apologize, but the words just would not come out. After much

she would not be so calmly discussing the matter, let alone analyzing the

said. She didn’t even bother to

Just a ‘sure‘?‘ Hoping to put an end to the matter and remembering the harsh words he had exchanged with her in the parking lot and hospital room, he took out a

Cynthia replied as

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

the other cards?”

over him, asked, “What

conduct at the hospital, I want you to hand over all your cards

he was hearing, and neither could

to do so?” Cynthia

to my poor judgment, but if your behavior these past few days

incredulous. Was he blaming

so?”

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

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

to argue, but he found that her statement was not entirely

could not understand why she was so upset over someone so insignificant, especially when she already knew that Jayleen held the number one

hitting him, Joshua could not even get a word in before Cynthia’s voice rang out again. However, this time, her words were not

Walters, please drop me off at the next intersection,”

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

the chill, asked in a heavy voice, “What

you going to do?”

She used

contagious.

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