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.

in his hand. He knew

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

called her, and his handsome face tinged with a hint of

nonchalantly, “Mr. Neal,

was at a loss for words. Why could she not just talk to him

doesn’t mean I didn’t have her harmed. What if I called someone else and had them bribe the driver responsible for

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

she would not

said. She didn’t even bother

parking lot and hospital room, he took out

replied as she took the

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

are the other

creeping over him,

hospital, I want you to hand over all your cards as

not believe what he was

to do so?”

my poor judgment, but

Was he blaming

that so?”

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

without hesitation when you learned about Jayleen’s accident and saw those chat logs, wouldn’t you?”

he found that her statement was

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

even get a word in before Cynthia’s voice rang out again. However, this time, her words

me off at the next intersection,”

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

feeling the chill, asked in a heavy

you going to do?”

replied, having regained most of her composure. She used the most nonchalant tone to

contagious.

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