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.

felt incredibly heavy in his

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

his handsome face tinged with a hint of

nonchalantly, “Mr. Neal, please don’t tell me you’re about to

Why could she not just talk

What if I called someone else and had them bribe the driver responsible for the accident?”

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was just trying to provoke him. He wanted to apologize, but the words just

reasoned that if she had indeed been responsible, she would not be so calmly discussing the matter, let alone analyzing the

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

‘That’s it? Just a ‘sure‘?‘ Hoping to put an end to the matter and remembering the harsh words he had exchanged with her in the parking lot and hospital room, he

Cynthia replied as

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

are the other cards?”

creeping over him,

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

driver could not believe what he

do so?” Cynthia challenged

my poor judgment, but if your behavior these past few days

was incredulous. Was he blaming

so?” she

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

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

to argue, but he found

back at him, and her mood clearly irked. She could not understand why she was so

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

me off at

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

still feeling the chill, asked in

you going to do?”

having regained most of her composure. She used

contagious.

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