Chapter 6

“Well, poor me. My husband doesn’t even know my true character after two years of marriage,” Cynthia blurted out.

Joshua was speechless yet again.

Was she really not satisfied unless she provoked him?

“Let’s go home.” He loosened his tie, grabbed her purse, and held her wrist as he walked out.

Cynthia hesitated.

Joshua paused as well.

Both of their gazes landed simultaneously on the purse in Joshua’s hand. Did he mistake her for Jayleen? That was Cynthia’s first thought.

Without further explanation, Joshua strode out quickly.

This scene was witnessed by Jayleen, who was in the hospital room. The gentleness on her face vanished, and she did not even care about the red marks her nails left on her palms as her hands gripped each other hard.

In a moment, the door to the hospital room opened.

Jayleen’s friend walked in, voicing her confusion, “Didn’t Cynthia hire someone to hit you? Why is Mr. Neal still…”

“It wasn’t her.” Jayleen furrowed her brows.

At first, she thought Cynthia was behind the incident, as Cynthia might be worried that she was taking her place. However, judging by Cynthia’s reaction earlier, things were

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not that simple.

Joshua had arrived at a similar conclusion.

After the driver picked them up, Joshua pulled Cynthia into the back seat with him. Before he could talk about today’s events, Mr. Cheyne called, providing an update on the situation. “Mr. Neal, I’ve looked into the IP address. The account’s login IP address isn’t in Jiverton.”

Joshua’s

moment, his phone felt incredibly heavy in his hand. He

her face, where he could faintly see the fine fuzz. At this moment, she seemed to have shed her earlier confrontational

her, and his handsome face tinged with a hint of

overheard the phone conversation and replied nonchalantly, “Mr. Neal, please don’t tell me you’re

at a loss for words. Why could she

else and had them bribe the driver responsible for the accident?” Cynthia said

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just would not come out. After much consideration, he finally managed to say, “I

she would not be

Cynthia said. She didn’t even bother to

he had exchanged with her in the parking lot and hospital room, he

replied as she took the

aback by her brisk response, seemingly not expecting her to agree

are the other cards?”

a chill creeping over him, asked,

cards as a precaution. I’ll return them on

could not believe what he was hearing,

you unwilling to do so?” Cynthia challenged

the car grew tense, “Today’s mishap was due to my poor judgment, but if your behavior these past few days hadn’t been so different from before, I wouldn’t have made such a

incredulous. Was

that so?”

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed.

without hesitation when you learned about Jayleen’s accident and saw those chat logs, wouldn’t you?”

but he found that her statement was not entirely

mood clearly irked. She could not understand why she was so upset over someone

the card hitting him, Joshua could not even get a word in before Cynthia’s voice rang out again. However, this time, her words were

please drop me off at the next

said.

“Alright,” Mr. Walters replied.

the chill, asked in a heavy voice, “What

you going to do?”

regained most of her composure. She used the

contagious.

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