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 hand. He

glow on her face, where he could faintly see the fine fuzz. At this moment, she

he called her, and his handsome face

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

Why could she not just talk to

the IP address isn’t in Jiverton doesn’t mean I didn’t have her harmed. What if I called someone else and

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words just

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

said. She didn’t even bother to engage with

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

replied as

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

other

a chill creeping over

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

not believe what he was hearing, and neither could

to do so?” Cynthia challenged

was 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 blaming

so?” she

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

you learned about Jayleen’s accident

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

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

hitting him, Joshua could not even get a word in before Cynthia’s

Walters, please drop me off at the

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

still feeling the chill, asked

you going to do?”

having regained most of her composure. She used the most nonchalant

contagious.

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