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.

and glanced at his phone screen. His pupils suddenly shrank subtly upon seeing the caller

the young woman—ignoring Joaquin, of course—while standing up. With that, he headed into the study with his phone, leaving the couple in the dining

disbelief when she

of other people?!" she chided with what sounded like feigned anger, unsure if it was because

leaning head, and gazed composedly at her with brightly lit eyes. "Since

peevishly at him as redness tinted her face and the tip of

it up so deliberately, do you?! These things…" she grumbled with displeasure. "You

ashamed, Joaquin was, in fact, 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

nothing more, seeing that the fellow had already sorted everything out. After all, she didn't want to bother

congee, but something inexplicably

mortified as she was, she had to admit that she was somewhat

to the man lest

…

much grimmer and more terrifying as he answered the call

Are you certain?" He pressed on,

the place after showing up. I tried reaching him, but he wouldn't answer my calls at all, and he's nowhere to be found either. I called you immediately when I thought this wasn't right. Also, last night in the middle of the night, someone looked into the account we had just reactivated, and we can confirm someone's tracing the tracks of our lab in Fontan two

his face. "Why would something like

have disappeared into thin air. We can't reach them at all. I don't think this is coincidental. It must have something to do with our account being looked into. Perhaps the

across his eyes, and

biting the bullet. "We're still looking into it, but they're