Chapter 38 She’ll Get a Chance If She Divorces
Amanda’s words made Joleen’s smile freeze.
“Patrick and I? What’s going on? What’s wrong?”
Joleen’s already slightly pale face was now filled with apparent panic. Even though she pretended to calmly deny it, Amanda still noticed this panic.
Amanda said thoughtfully, “Joleen, don’t lie to me. Do you still like Patrick?”
“Would you believe me if I said I don’t like him?”
“I thought…”
Amanda frowned slightly and swallowed her words.
Although she always made fun of Patrick and Joleen in private, she always thought that after graduating for so many years, Joleen only liked Patrick because she was young. Many people then had a crush on Patrick, and it wasn’t just Joleen.
Who would have thought that even after so long, Joleen still silently fell in love with Patrick?Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.
“Have you ever told him?”
Hearing Amanda’s question, Joleen’s expression became more complicated. Just as she was about to nod, her cell phone suddenly rang, which was remarkably abrupt in the quiet private room.
Joleen abruptly came back to her senses when she saw the caller ID.
“Who is it?”
“Nothing, colleagues. I’m going out to answer a call.”
With that, Joleen took her phone and left.
Amanda leaned against the table alone, deep in thought.
Back in school, Patrick was the debate club president, the most handsome boy in the Department of Law. The girls who liked him were able to circle around the school. He was indeed outstanding enough to be appreciated by so many people. If he wanted Joleen, then the two of them would be a perfect match.
However, in Amanda’s impression, Patrick and Joleen didn’t seem to have much contact. Even so, they had known each other for so many years. It wasn’t to the extent that Patrick didn’t feel Joleen’s feelings for him at all. Joleen was the only one who could state the obvious thing.
Did Joleen tell Patrick she liked him?
Just as he was thinking this, Joleen returned.
“Amanda, I have something to do at the company. I need to go now.”
“So suddenly?” Amanda straightened up and asked, “Is there something urgent?”
“Don’t worry, I can handle it. Let’s meet again next time.”
“Then take your time on the road.”
Joleen grabbed her jacket and bag and left as if she had an urgent matter to attend to.
Amanda was left alone with the table of sashimi.
At that moment, Joleen left the Japanese restaurant. In the taxi, Joleen’s gaze fell onto her knees, and her red eyes were filled with a hint of sadness.
There was a diagnosis document on her knees from the hospital’s maternity department.
When she got home and opened the door, she was grabbed and pushed against the wall.
In the dark room, the man asked coldly, “What did you say to Amanda?”
Joleen’s heart clenched. “You called me back so urgently just to ask me this?”
“You haven’t answered my question yet.”
“Do you think that you’ll have a chance if she divorced? Let me tell you, you two can’t be together!”
Joleen attempted to struggle, but she was gripped tightened by him.
The pain in her wrist made her groan. She gritted her teeth and growled, “Yes, I told her everything. I told Amanda that on her wedding night, you were drunk and slept with me. Then we are together for three whole years.”
“Joleen!”
The man’s eyes were shrouded in darkness, but Joleen could still feel the anger that he was suppressing. “Back then, I told you I wouldn’t be with you. What are you doing now?”
Joleen’s wrist was about to be crushed by Patrick, but the pain woke her up.
Joleen’s face was covered in tears. “I thought you’d slowly accept me. Three years… Patrick, it’s been three years. Even a block of ice should’ve been able to melt by now, right? Why are you treating me like this? Just because she divorced?”
There were countless moments in the past three years when Joleen felt Patrick would fall in love with her. Even if he didn’t love her, it was good that she could stay by his side like this. One day, he would discover how good she was.
But one day, he suddenly said they would never contact each other again, and her world collapsed.
After a brief pause, Patrick let go of her and said indifferently, “Explain our relationship to Amanda tomorrow. You just say we won’t meet again in the future. I hope you can pretend that nothing happened between us, and we can start all over again.”
After saying this, he was about to leave.
Joleen suddenly hugged him from behind. “Don’t go.”
“Let me go.”
“I didn’t tell her; I didn’t say anything!”
Patrick paused his hand, which wanted to push Joleen away as Joleen sobbed.
Joleen choked with sobs, “Don’t go; I didn’t say anything to Amanda. Please don’t go.”
“Can you accompany me tonight?”
Women’s weakness and obedience could easily cause one’s heart to soften, and it was also easier for them to be captivated.
But in fact, the so-called unwillingness was just an excuse for a man to be greedy for himself. In the past three years, he had suppressed so much love but could not get it, which nourished so much desire.
It was late at night.
Amanda ordered saki but not be served for a long time. She was about to urge the waiter when the private room door was pulled open from the outside.
“My saki… why is it you?”
Amanda looked at the man at the door in surprise. He was handsome and dressed in a dark suit.
Who else could it be but Iverson?
“Why are you here?”
Iverson bent down to enter the room and said casually, “I’m just passing by.”
As soon as he sat down, the originally spacious private room became inexplicably much more cramped.
“What a passing by!”
The restaurant was almost in the suburb. It was so far from downtown. How could Iverson pass by here?
“Mr. Byran, do you think I’m easy to fool?”
Iverson poured himself a cup of tea and studied the woman carefully. “Yes.”
Amanda choked on her own saliva.
She was probably the one who shot herself in the foot.
“Why do you know I’m here?” Amanda stared at him warily. “You didn’t send someone to follow me, did you?”
“Didn’t you hint me to come?”
“Hint?” Amanda was confused. “Who gave you that hint?”
“Don’t you want to show it to me on your Moments?”
Amanda came back to her senses and denied it quickly. “Of course not! I ate here with my best friend, okay? And that Moments is open to the public.”
“Oh? Really?”
Iverson calmly took a sip of his tea.
Only the two were in the room, and Amanda’s Moments had been deleted long ago. There was no evidence, so she couldn’t clear her name!
At this moment, Amanda’s heart was crumbling.