Chapter 5

Jayleen looked at Joshua and said something ambiguous, “I’ll listen to Joshua’s orders.”

“Joshua, are you willing to show me?” Cynthia’s beautiful eyebrows lifted slightly.

Joshua looked at her feigned innocence and, without saying much, picked up a phone from the table, opened WhatsApp, and handed her the conversation after scrolling through the chat history.

Cynthia took it and read the contents.

[Mrs. Neal: If you help me get rid of Jayleen, I’ll pay off your debt and give you another hundred thousand.]

[Driver: How do I know you’ll keep your word?]

[Mrs. Neal: I’m Joshua’s wife; a hundred thousand is nothing to me.]

[Driver: I’ll trust you this time, but if you back out, I’ll make a scene at Neal Group!]

[Driver: Send me a photo.]

[Mrs. Neal: Picture]

[Mrs. Neal: Make it clean.]

Cynthia finished reading and asked, “That’s it?”

Joshua looked down at her, searching for a hint of panic on her face but found none. “That’s it.”

Cynthia returned the phone, calmly analyzing the situation.

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It wasn’t me. With Mr. Neal’s resources, it shouldn’t be difficult to find out who’s behind this account.”

“The account is new and unverified,” Joshua replied coldly.

suggested, “You can track the IP

clever. In the past, he had always solved her problems. Now it

person.

not going to tell me the IP address is hidden,

when he did

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have the tech department traced all the IP addresses

“Yes, sir.”

left with the phone, genuinely afraid that if he stayed any longer, Mrs. Neal would trick him

wasn’t you?” Joshua’s voice remained cold, his

woman who did not care about money demanded so much in the divorce. Her gentle demeanor suddenly turned confrontational. Who could say whether

how the hit–and–run driver knew Miss

reasoned, not engaging

speak, Cynthia continued,

“What?” he asked.

the first thing you should do is call the police.” Cynthia reminded him, her gaze resting on his

darkened slightly. He did not know why, but when he found out it was Cynthia, his first reaction was to confront her instead of

between them. In Joshua’s eyes, all he could see was her reflection. Her usually smiling eyes blinked gently, her curled lashes fluttering

maintained eye contact until Jayleen’s voice interrupted

“Yes?”

to

simple statement carried an unmistakable undertone of dismissal. Cynthia, however, had no intention of letting her rest. She stood by the bedside, a faint curve at

asked and

understood Cynthia’s meaning and called her name

of you seducing my

discuss the fact that you falsely accused

Jayleen quickly apologized, her voice

her nervous fingers tightened. “I saw the

medicine. “I see, I thought you might have staged this

didn’t!” Jayleen instinctively

“Cynthia!” Joshua was angry.

big deal? Can’t I make a joke?” Cynthia chatted amiably, seemingly

you don’t like her, but there’s no need to smear her. Take it out on me if

into a smile as she looked at him. “You get so angry over a joke. Did you ever get this

unreadable. “Joshua,”

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