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 hand.

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 had reverted to the gentle, well–behaved person she

called her, and his handsome

had overheard the phone conversation and replied nonchalantly, “Mr. Neal, please don’t

for words. Why could she not just

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

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the words just would not come out. After much consideration, he finally managed to say, “I know

would not be so calmly discussing the

She didn’t even bother to

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. If you’re

Cynthia replied as

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

are the other cards?”

a chill creeping over him, asked,

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

what he was hearing, and neither

you unwilling to do so?” Cynthia

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 different from before,

was incredulous. Was he

so?”

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

you would have doubted me without hesitation when you learned about Jayleen’s accident and saw those chat logs, wouldn’t

found that

she was so upset over someone so insignificant, especially when she already knew

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

please drop me off at the next intersection,”

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

feeling the chill, asked in a

you going to do?”

her composure. She used the most nonchalant tone

contagious.

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