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.

heavy in

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

handsome face tinged

“Mr. Neal,

a loss for words. Why

called someone else and had them bribe the driver responsible for the accident?” Cynthia said

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

not be so calmly discussing the matter, let alone

said. She didn’t

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 upset, feel free to use it as

as she took the

her to agree

the other cards?”

creeping over him, asked, “What

the hospital, I want you to hand over all your cards as a precaution. I’ll return them on the day we divorce,” Cynthia said with an unreadable

believe what he was hearing, and neither could

you unwilling to do so?” Cynthia

yourself.” Joshua replied, becoming angrier as the atmosphere 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

was incredulous. Was he

so?”

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

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

wanted to argue, but he found that her

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

in before Cynthia’s voice rang

Walters, please drop me off

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

feeling the chill, asked in a heavy voice, “What

you going to do?”

She used the most nonchalant tone to deliver

contagious.

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