All of them had a sleepless night.
The next day, warm rays of sunshine shone through the window and into the room. However, the room felt oddly frigid to Joan.
“Let’s go and have a look. They’d better not make a scene,” Larry put on his clothes and said.
They had booked an entire café for the confrontation.
Caspian, Nancy, Jory, Larry, and Joan were there early as well.
If it wasn’t for Nancy holding Caspian back, the man would have hurled a fist at Jory.
“Jory, aren’t you going to explain yourself?” Caspian threw daggers at the man before him, trying hard to suppress the urge to throw a punch at Jory.
“Explain? Caspian, it seems like you do not understand love at all. There is no logic in love, only feelings. And Caspian, Nancy simply doesn’t feel that way about you. Why don’t you just do her a favor and let her go?” Jory cut to the chase and said.
He was right. Every moment with Caspian was excruciatingly unbearable for Nancy while every second with Jory was spent in bliss and contentment. It was a difference between night and day.
“You don’t have the right to butt your nose in our business, Synder!” Caspian smacked the table in exasperation.
Jory sneered at Caspian who was opposite to him.
“My goodness, who is that? The café is fully booked? Did you guys buy this place or what?” All of a sudden, Gabriella showed up at the café with a woman and mocked the group.
Caspian was stumped at the sight of them.
The woman whom Gabriella brought along was the woman whom Caspian had slept with.
“Why are you here?” Caspian cast a dubious look at the woman.
Gabriella looked at Caspian, then back at the woman behind her, and an evil smirk flashed across her face.
The others were dumbfounded by Gabriella’s presence as well. Nobody had expected that the woman would show up here. But what they did not know was, Gabriella was actually the mastermind behind the elaborate plan.
“I couldn’t contact you. I’m really afraid that you’d just abandon me,” the woman behind Gabriella said sheepishly before she rushed to clutch Caspian’s arms.
Nancy was flabbergasted at the sight before her.
One look at Gabriella, and Larry knew that nothing good could happen when that woman was around.
“Didn’t I ask you to stay at the hotel? Why are you here?” A frisson of annoyance fleeted across Caspian’s face.
Larry’s face fell at the events unfolding before him. He knew that things were not as simple as it appeared to be. Larry knew he had to stop things from spiraling out of control.
The man gave Joan a look, and she immediately knew what he meant.
“Nancy, my stomach hurts. Could you accompany me to the hospital?” Joan clutched at her stomach and appeared to be in agony.
“Huh? Joan? What happened to you? Why would you have stomachache all of a sudden?” Nancy rushed to Joan’s side.
“Maybe I ate something wrong yesterday. Could you accompany me to the hospital?” Joan looked at her friend expectantly.
Nancy turned around to look at Caspian, then at the woman who was clutching Caspian’s hands. Then, she hurriedly steadied Joan out of the place.
“Hey, why are you guys leaving? The good show’s just about to start. Don’t leave…” Gabriella chided.
A good show? Larry snickered at her words.
You’ve arranged all of this, haven’t you?
“Nancy, please take Joan to the hospital first. Let us deal with this on our own.” Larry looked solemnly at Nancy.
Nancy turned to look at Joan, to which she replied with a firm nod.
“Okay, I’ll take Joan to the hospital,” Nancy muttered in a low voice.
“Hey, Nancy, don’t leave just yet. Your husband has some explaining to do… How could you leave right now…” Gabriella was obviously trying to sow discord between the couple.
