Love on the Fast Track (Derek and Norah)

Chapter 346:

Lying in the sterile confines of the hospital bed, Joanna’s eyes brimmed with tears, a mixture of anguish and betrayal evident in their depths. “You know we don’t get along well with the Carter family, especially Kathy. She doesn’t deserve you, not in the slightest.”

From the earliest days of their childhood, Joanna had taken immense pride in Bryson, who was charming and competent. Every time she mentioned Bryson, she would receive envious glances from others. But now, as she lay there grappling with the bitter truth, Joanna couldn’t help but feel a profound sense of disillusionment.

Bryson, her idolized brother, had succumbed to temptation and betrayed her trust by sleeping with Kathy. Disappointment clouded Joanna’s gaze. “I can’t believe you would stoop so low as to use being drunk as an excuse to have sex with a woman. It makes me sick.”

Bryson, seated solemnly on the nearby sofa, was rendered speechless by Joanna’s cold and heartless condemnation. Though he longed to defend himself, the damning evidence presented by the video on the entertainment news was like a smack in the face, his voice lost in the face of irrefutable truth. The unmistakable sound of his voice and the familiarity of his breath told that it was definitely him in the video.

Though Bryson opened his mouth to speak, words failed him.

hand on Joanna’s shoulder and urged softly, “Joanna, please, try to calm down.” Norah understood that Joanna’s outburst stemmed from a place of profound disappointment. Before this

shook Joanna’s arm. Inwardly, however, Susanna couldn’t help but acknowledge that if Sean were to commit such things, her disdain for him would be a certainty. Susanna found herself agreeing with Joanna’s stance. Bryson’s decision to sleep with a woman Joanna despised was nothing short of reprehensible.

his fingers tangling in his hair as he wondered why things had to turn out so painfully. Darwin and Raina exchanged a glance, and a shared sense of resignation hung heavy between

and low-key. Before visiting the hospital today, Darwin had gathered information about Kathy’s conduct, discovering that she had a reputation for

I have only one condition. You cannot toy with other people’s feelings or jeopardize someone else’s well-being,”

oversexed. You’ll sleep with just about any woman.” Norah’s grip on Joanna’s shoulder tightened,

harsh, and Norah knew it would

forming in her throat. Just thinking of it caused her heart to clench so painfully that she wanted to cry. To think that her beloved brother, held in such high esteem and respect, had slept

to his room yesterday.” The tension in Joanna’s ward was so thick, casting a heavy veil over the

shed light on the events of the previous night. “The room