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.

phone felt incredibly heavy in his hand.

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 have shed her earlier confrontational demeanor and

he called her, and his handsome face tinged with

conversation and replied nonchalantly, “Mr. Neal, please don’t tell

Why could she not just talk to him

didn’t have her harmed. What if I called someone else and had them

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

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

all Cynthia said. She didn’t

‘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 Centurion card and handed it to her. “This is my main bank card.

as she

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

the other cards?” she

chill creeping over him, asked, “What other

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

believe what he

to do so?”

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

was incredulous. Was he

so?”

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

doubted me without hesitation when you learned about Jayleen’s accident

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

was so

a word in before Cynthia’s voice rang out again. However,

Walters, please drop me off

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

chill, asked in a heavy voice, “What

you going to do?”

“Cynthia replied, having regained most of her composure. She

contagious.

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