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.

that moment, his phone felt incredibly heavy in his hand. He knew

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

called her, and his handsome face tinged

nonchalantly, “Mr. Neal,

words. Why could she not just talk to

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

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

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

was all Cynthia said. She didn’t even bother

exchanged with her in the parking lot and hospital room, he took out a

replied as she took

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

the other

chill creeping over him, asked,

your cards as a precaution. I’ll return

driver could not believe what he was hearing, and neither

unwilling to do so?” Cynthia challenged

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, I wouldn’t have made such

Was he

that so?” she

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

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

he found that

clearly irked. She could not understand why she was so upset

get a word in before

off at the next intersection,”

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

still feeling the chill, asked

you going to do?”

her composure. She used the most nonchalant tone to

contagious.

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