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

where he could faintly see the fine fuzz. At this moment, she seemed

called her, and his handsome face

and replied nonchalantly, “Mr. Neal, please don’t tell me you’re about to apologize to

Why could she not just

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

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the words just would not come out. After much consideration,

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

She didn’t

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

replied as she

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

are the other

feeling a chill creeping over

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

he was hearing, and

to do so?” Cynthia challenged

due to my poor judgment, but if your behavior these past few days hadn’t been so different from before, I wouldn’t

incredulous. Was he

so?”

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

without the contrast, you would have doubted me without hesitation when you learned about Jayleen’s accident

to argue, but he found that

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

in before Cynthia’s

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

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

the chill, asked in

you going to do?”

improve my brain function, “Cynthia replied, having regained most of her composure. She used the most nonchalant tone to deliver the most provocative statement. “Just in case being brainless turns out

contagious.

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