When the Contract Marriage Ended, He Stayed

Chapter 98: She Really Likes You

"Hazel, we’re going back there right now! We have to teach that shameless pair a lesson and show them you’re not someone they can just push around. You still have me! I’ve got your back. I’ve never seen a wife catch her husband with another woman and just walk away."

"They’re the ones in the wrong! They should be the ones to leave, not us!" Sharon Winters said, her face flush with anger. "Hazel, you can’t let yourself be treated like this. Aiden Xavier is a complete bastard! Didn’t he say he was going to cut ties with Raina Lowell?"

Hazel Hawthorne thought about how Aiden Xavier had been treating her these past few days and how happy their conversations had been. Even though they often bickered and she frequently got mad, she had also been genuinely happy.

Sharon Winters grabbed Hazel Hawthorne and started to drag her back, but Hazel spoke up. "It’s fine. I’m not upset. I knew about it all along; I just didn’t let it bother me. I’m the one who couldn’t control my emotions. Let’s just go."

"What does that have to do with you? You’re clearly the victim here! Why would you say something like that?" Sharon didn’t understand what Hazel Hawthorne was thinking or how she could tolerate this. "This isn’t like the Hazel I know at all."

Hazel Hawthorne’s mind was in turmoil. She knew better than anyone that her special feelings for Aiden Xavier had grown wildly like weeds over the past few days. The secrets she had once suppressed deep in her heart were now on the verge of spilling out.

She grabbed Sharon Winters again. "Let’s just go. We can eat somewhere else. My treat. Come have a drink with me."

Seeing that Hazel Hawthorne was truly unwilling to go back, Sharon Winters didn’t press the issue further. However, she still felt indignant on Hazel’s behalf and spent the entire way ranting about Aiden Xavier and Raina Lowell, cursing Raina from head to toe.

’But what good would that do?’

It wasn’t that Hazel hadn’t thought about going back and asking Aiden Xavier what their interactions over the past few days meant, but she knew that if she asked, he would discover her true feelings.

remembered a little girl who used to silently follow them

she was even more reluctant to bring up the past. She would

in my youth will just have to be buried in my memories as time goes by. That’s fine too. The Aiden Xavier of today is just my husband in name only—it has nothing

Sharon Winters to a small

are you able to tolerate Aiden Xavier continuing to see Raina Lowell? You know she has ill intentions toward him. She’s probably just dying for him to divorce you so she can be with

should I care what someone I don’t care about is doing?" Hazel’s retort left Sharon Winters speechless. Her best state of mind had been right after she married Aiden Xavier, when she was

Winters said, puzzled, "I can tell

her mouth, Hazel Hawthorne immediately denied it. "I

experiencing her first crush. If you don’t like Aiden Xavier, why were you checking your phone all day? Weren’t you just waiting for

why did you look so devastated when you saw him with Raina Lowell? If you really don’t care about him, why

you insist on something, the more you’re telling people that you

and Aiden Xavier, I can honestly

will be, why bother saying it? Sometimes, saying it out loud won’t change the final result," Hazel Hawthorne said faintly. "I’ve never been willing to

Hawthorne regain her composure, Sharon suddenly felt that anything more she wanted to say had lost its meaning. She looked at Hazel with heartache, thinking, ’So this is what it’s like to be married to a rich man. It’s not an easy life.

in point:

didn’t know how much she had drunk. She laid her head on the table, dizzy. Her phone vibrated continuously in her bag, but she was completely oblivious. She pulled Sharon Winters into

and don’t you dare wander

the bar was too noisy to hear what the person on the other end was saying, so she took her phone and found

Winters

"Where’s Hazel?"