Chapter 534

Cynthia was simply trying to shield Daphne and Old Man Neal from warry. After exiting the Neal Group’s building, she retreated to her car. She leaned her head against the backrest and allowed her mind to wander aimlessly.

She never

Only today did she discover from Yoel what Yves had meant by Joshua’s fever episode before the most recent one. imagined her forgiveness would trigger such a patent emotional shock in Joshua. Even less did she anticipate that he had been in the hospital beset by a high fever and receiving intravenous therapy on the day she had told him about her impending kidnap

His prolonged fever and a night spent in the cold seaside breeze without relief exacerbated his condition. Without this. unfortunate sequence of events, the gunshot wound he later suffered might not have had such devastating consequences.

As she dwelled on these thoughts, Cynthia felt a heaviness press upon her chest. She was at a loss as to how things had spiraled to this point. If she had known earlier, she would have spent the month following the signing of the divorce papers in a quiet place.

Without her laptop or phone, without anything. In that case, perhaps they would not be in the present predicament.

Knock knock

and looking outside, she saw Matthew standing there, his dark

rolled down the

said, with a languid and casual tone, his hand tucked into

little desire to go anywhere at the moment, Cynthia mustered the courage to retort, “I’ll remind you it’s office hours.

as a special assistant,”

knew Matthew well enough to

ILSUN.

closed and locked her car before leading her to his own SUV. After climbing into the vehicle, Cynthia leaned out to

“What’s

this car looks familiar. I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere before.” Cynthia,

his calm as be replied, “It’s not a limited

at Nexuria. There were many who could afford to buy and modify such a vehicle, but her sense of

did not dwell on it, settling back in the car to continue her musings. Truthfully, it was less about active thinking

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