The Untouchable Ex-Wife

Chapter 37

Despite suddenly becoming the target of everyone’s critical gazes, Renee remained perfectly calm.

“Wait,” she chuckled, “surely you guys aren’t suspecting me of being Phoenix, are you?”

“I’d just gone out to the restroom for a few minutes,” she said incredulously, “and in that time, I somehow Jurned into a famous genius hacker! What a magical turn of events! Perhaps I should celebrate it with fireworks!”

“I think it’s all just a coincidence,” Elijah chimed in quickly. “Based on my understanding of Mrs. Hunt’s character, her shrewdness and practicality are more suited for a housewife. Her proficiency with computers is limited to watching movies and videos online. She doesn’t even play any video games… If someone like her is a genius hacker, then I must be the president of this country!”

Although his words were unflattering at Renee’s expense, he had only said that to help get her out of trouble, and it worked well. Everyone thought that Elijah’s words made a lot of sense.

“That’s right,” said Renee with a smile, the picture of innocence. “Everyone knows how much I love Stefan. If I really was Phoenix, I would’ve done everything I could to help him. There’s no way that I would ever sabotage him!

“Is that so?” Stefan, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke up. His pointed gaze was fixed on the woman as he sneered, “I think you’ve sabotaged me quite a few times before.”

she thought bitterly. How could

stepped towards Renee and reached out to grip her chin, lifting her

“So, are you Phoenix?”

gaze. She could easily fool the others, but she knew full well that the scarily shrewd

you think

good,” he responded. “That’s exactly the right kind of meaningless crap

strikingly handsome face was emotionless as he demanded,

hidden on their phone in this day and age. If there really was something suspicious about

let him go through her phone, because there were so many things there that could never

she told him directly. “Please

the two were playing a game of tug-of-war, and neither was prepared to

and compliant, would have the guts to go against Mr. Hunt.

which had been partially hidden by the brim of his

Fascinating’ Extremely fascinating!