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.

he remembered a little girl who used to silently follow them around

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

on 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

Sharon Winters to a small

Hawthorne for a long time before voicing her confusion. "Why 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

speechless. Her best state of mind had been right after she married Aiden Xavier, when she was just herself, and nothing he did

"I can tell you like Aiden

the words left her mouth, Hazel Hawthorne immediately denied it.

rolled her eyes. "We’re both women, and I’m not some naive girl 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 him

Raina Lowell? If you really don’t care about him, why

lot of the time, the more you insist on something, the more you’re telling people

going on between you and Aiden Xavier, I can honestly see that

saying it out loud won’t change the final result," Hazel Hawthorne

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.

in point: Aiden

drunk. She laid her head on the table, dizzy. Her phone vibrated continuously in her bag,

and don’t you dare wander off. I’m going to

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

end. Sharon Winters snorted coldly and said sarcastically, "Who are you

"Where’s Hazel?"