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

mix of emotions filled him as he glanced at the person leaning against the car window. Sunlight 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 had reverted to the gentle, well–behaved person she

her, and his handsome

nonchalantly, “Mr. Neal,

was at a loss for words. Why could she

someone else and had them bribe the driver responsible for the accident?” Cynthia said lightly, but her

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him. He wanted to apologize, but the words just would

not be so

was all Cynthia said. She didn’t even bother to engage

parking lot and

replied as

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

are the other cards?” she

chill creeping over

you to hand over all your cards as a precaution. I’ll return

believe what he was hearing,

you unwilling to do

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

incredulous. Was he

that so?”

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

when you learned about Jayleen’s accident and saw those chat logs, wouldn’t you?” Cynthia asserted

but he found

she was so upset over someone so insignificant, especially when she already knew that Jayleen held the number one spot

by the card hitting him, Joshua could not even get a word in before Cynthia’s voice rang out again. However, this time, her words were not meant for

drop me off at the next

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

still feeling the chill, asked in a

you going to do?”

her composure. She used

contagious.

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