A Replacement Bride

Chapter 375

Joaquin leaned his back against the chair while retaining his devil-may-care smile. "Why do you think I'm leaving, Mr. Hall?"

He threw the question back to Jayden instead, and the latter's countenance turned grimmer by the second.

Very quickly, Jayden found Joaquin raising an arm, bringing it across Katherine's back, and resting it on her chair.

It was evident that the man was asserting dominance, a blatant challenge toward Jayden, who locked his brows into a tight furrow in response.

"Mr. Levisay, even if you're Kathy's husband, you don't need to have this much animosity toward me, is there? Kathy and I go way back, no matter how. Don't you think you're… being unreasonable? Have you ever thought about how Kathy would feel? Are you expecting Kathy to sever her ties with all her friends?"

A snort of laughter escaped Joaquin upon hearing Jayden's words, but his gaze remained undiscriminating, looking as though nothing Jayden said would get to him at all.

"Look at what you're saying, Mr. Hall. Of course not. That's not what I mean at all. I just think it's inconvenient for Kathy and me to stay here for long. After all…" At that, he quirked a brow and blurted cheekily, "We need our sex life too. It's ultimately not so convenient if we stay over in somebody else's house."

Cough, cough, cough…

Katherine choked upon hearing Joaquin's startling words, and she gazed at Joaquin with her brightly lit eyes widened with shock.

I swear to God, you are a shameless b*stard, Levisay! How can you say something like that like it's nothing?!

Jayden, too, was stupefied, and he parted his lips only to realize he was rendered at a loss for words, unsure of what to say.

It took him a long time to recover his voice, but a ringtone interrupted him before he could even speak up.

his phone screen. His pupils suddenly shrank subtly

eat, Kathy. I have to take this," he said to the young woman—ignoring Joaquin, of course—while standing up. With that, he headed into the

recovering from disbelief

front of other people?!" she chided with what sounded like feigned

support his leaning head, and gazed composedly at her

him as redness tinted

bring it up so deliberately, do you?! These things…"

proud of what he did, and he quirked a brow while glee enveloped his eyes. "I'll naturally be upset when he has thoughts that he shouldn't have toward you, and it's even more impossible for nothing to happen when he and I are in

fellow had already sorted everything out. After all, she didn't want

she just quietly ate her congee, but something inexplicably odd

was being jealous, and as mortified as she was, she had to admit that she

to the man lest he became insatiable and even

…

much grimmer and more terrifying as he answered the call inside his

you say? Are you certain?" He pressed on, looking

tried reaching him, but he wouldn't answer my calls at all, and he's

as grimness enveloped his face. "Why would something like this

them, but it's like those people have disappeared into thin air. We can't reach them at all. I don't think this is coincidental. It must have something to

Jayden left the conversation hanging, animosity flashed across his eyes, and he asked, "Do we know who it

know," Hansel answered, biting the bullet. "We're still looking into it, but they're very sneaky. They didn't leave a