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.

phone felt incredibly heavy in his

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

and his handsome face

replied nonchalantly, “Mr. Neal,

Why could

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

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apologize, but the words just would not come

if she had indeed been responsible, she would not be

said. She didn’t even bother to engage with

‘That’s it? 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 she took

to agree so readily. Suddenly,

are the other cards?” she

feeling a chill creeping over him,

cards as a precaution. I’ll return

driver could not believe what he was hearing,

unwilling to do so?” Cynthia challenged

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 from before, I wouldn’t have made such

Was he blaming

that so?”

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

learned about Jayleen’s accident and saw those chat logs, wouldn’t

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

clearly irked. She could not understand why she was so upset over someone so insignificant, especially when

guard by the card hitting him, Joshua could not even get a word in

Walters, please drop me off at the

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

the chill, asked

you going to do?”

She used the most nonchalant tone to

contagious.

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