Chapter 338 Starting to Suspect Xavier
“No one dares to give me a hard time at the company.”
“That’s good.” Veronica believed Matthew’s words. After all, he did have enough capability to convince those on the board of directors; it was just that things would get more or less tricky.
Clutching her cell phone, she fell silent for a while after asking the question. After that, she told him what had happened at the hospital tonight. After all, what Elizabeth had endured was all because of them, so she had to tell him about this.
However, Matthew wasn’t as angry as she had imagined after listening to the story. Instead, he replied calmly, “You don’t have to worry about Grandma. They dare not do anything to her.”
“Grandma was really… commanding when she blew up at the hospital today.” Veronica couldn’t hide her amusement, but her smile disappeared after a while. Pursing her lips, she continued, “Sorry. I really got you two into trouble today.”
“Don’t say such things anymore, you silly girl, or else I’ll really get angry.”
“Yes, sir.” She chuckled while covering her mouth, feeling incredibly happy as a beautiful smile brightened her features.
She chatted with Matthew for a while before hanging up the phone. However, as soon as she put down the phone, she got a phone call from Xavier.
“Xavier?”
“Have you learned about what’s on the news?” Xavier asked, getting straight to the point.
“Yeah, I saw the news, so I know about it. What’s the matter?” Veronica asked despite knowing the answer to her question.
“I told you to stay away from Matthew back then, but you didn’t listen. Look at the sh*tty stuff he’s done. He’s a bi! How disgusting.”
It was easy to perceive Xavier’s anger over the phone, as if he really felt sorry for Veronica because of what Matthew had done. However, she couldn’t help but recall what Matthew had said to her the other night. Matthew told her that while she and Xavier were at the hotel, Xavier had texted him using her cell phone, telling him that she had started going out with Xavier.
However, she could sense from Matthew’s expression that the matter wasn’t that simple. Matthew had overreacted after that day. Not only had he spurned her, but he had even loathed her. It made her wonder what on earth had happened that night. “Thank you for telling me these.”
She let out a sigh. “I never thought such a thing would happen either. Well, you seem like an unruly dandy at other times, but you’re even franker than Matthew when we spend time together in private.”
“That’s of course.”
Veronica was utterly speechless; she didn’t expect Xavier to respond in such an unaffected manner with no feelings of remorse. “I know what you want to say, but I’m a little tired today. I gotta go.”
“You wanna come out for a couple of drinks?” Xavier seemed to sense that Veronica was in low spirits, and he thought she was upset because of what had happened to Matthew.
In reality, however, it was just that Veronica didn’t want to play along with such a despicable and shameless person. Matthew used to be mean, but he never resorted to dirty tricks. On the contrary, Xavier was an out-and-out villain who had even shamelessly installed an eavesdropping app on her cell phone. Does he honestly think that I spent a few years at college for nothing? “What about tomorrow? I’m a bit tired today.”
Seeing that she insisted on staying at home, Xavier couldn’t say anything. “Okay. In that case, have a good rest,” he said before hanging up right away.
Veronica rested on her bed, thinking. Still, she wanted to know what had happened that night, so she took out her laptop and hacked into the surveillance system. After searching for a long time, she finally saw the scene where Conrad had stopped the car to let Xavier give her a ride that day.
Surveillance footage showed that Conrad had exchanged a smile with Xavier when he got out of the car and saw the latter. Not only that, but he patted Xavier on the shoulder in a friendly manner before Xavier got into the car to drive her to the hotel.
Veronica had long surmised that Xavier and Conrad were in cahoots, but it wasn’t until now that she realized that they had been working together for a long time, especially during the family dinner that night.
She didn’t get drunk that night, so why would she be so soundly asleep that she had no idea how she ended up in the hotel? Once she thought about the details, she couldn’t help being terrified. In an instant, she realized what she had figured.
After closing her laptop, she sat on the bed in quiet contemplation. After a long time, she called Xavier, asking, “Wanna come out for drinks?”
Xavier fell silent for a moment. Then, he agreed readily, saying, “I just knew that you’re feeling down. Let’s meet up at the usual place.” He was referring to the food stall where they had dined together before.
“Okay.” Veronica hung up. After that, she picked up her coat, went downstairs, and drove there right away.
Xavier arrived after she sat at the food stall for a while. Dressed in a cream-colored trench coat, he looked handsome as usual, with the air of a young and unruly dandy.
“I’ve been waiting for you for ages.” Veronica smiled before pointing at the liquor on the table. “Come on, let’s drink.”
Xavier pulled out a chair and sat down across from her before looking at the spirits on the table with a worried expression. “Are you brooding over him?”
“Nope,” Veronica answered in the affirmative while shaking her head.
However, her answer made him certain about what he was thinking—that Veronica came out for drinks in the middle of the night because she was upset over Matthew’s passionate kiss with the ‘unknown man’ in public today. Of course, this was a good thing for him. Inwardly, he was delighted, but he wouldn’t give himself away.
“Since you’re feeling down, I’ll drink with you.” Without the slightest hesitation, he poured himself a glass of liquor and clinked glasses with Veronica.
The two ate skewers and drank while chatting in a good atmosphere. With that, Veronica’s spirits gradually ‘lifted.’
“Oh, right, I gotta make a phone call. Yvonne called me this afternoon to ask me out to dinner, but I forgot about it,” Veronica said while taking her cell phone out of her pocket before tapping on its screen. “Oh, no. My phone’s dead. Yvonne is probably mad at me now that she can’t reach me by phone.”
“Just call her on my phone.” Xavier handed his cell phone to her. “I happen to have her phone number.”
“Uh, okay.” Veronica nodded and stretched out her hand to take his phone.
Xavier unlocked his phone and handed it to Veronica. Just as she was taking the phone from him, she ‘accidentally’ knocked over the single-use bowl in front of her, causing the soup to spill onto her clothes.
“Be careful.” Xavier immediately pulled out a few pieces of tissue paper and handed them to her.
Veronica took the tissue and tried to wipe the soup stains away, but she couldn’t wipe the stains away at all. As it happened, her phone call was answered. She chatted with Yvonne while pointing at the restroom near the food stall, signaling that she wanted to go there to deal with the oil stains on her clothes.
Xavier didn’t think much of it. “Just go.”
With that, Veronica continued to chat with Yvonne using Xavier’s phone while turning around to go to the restroom. She was still holding the tissue paper in her left hand as she lowered her head to wipe the oil stains away.
Once she was in the restroom, she turned on the tap and chatted with Yvonne while bringing Xavier’s phone back to the home screen. Then, she opened Xavier’s WhatsApp and searched for Matthew’s WhatsApp username right away, but no results were displayed.
