After she finished talking, she lifted the bag again and walked back to her apartment. The light in Sean’s eyes had dimmed and a wave of slight anger filled his chest. Without thinking, he pulled Myra back by her hand. “Who are you seeing now?”
Why else would she speak to me this way?
At this moment, the two of them did not notice the black Maybach that was driving toward them in the sunset.
Myra grew furious when he held her back. She seethed, “Even if I am seeing someone, what does it have to do with you?” The moment she saw the look on his face, her gaze turned bizarre. “Sean, don’t tell me you’re bothered that I’m with another man now? Don’t forget that we got divorced a long time ago. You have no control over who I choose to be with!”
His expression was dark, and his eyes lit up with fury. But, seeing the calm expression on her face, he suppressed his anger and scoffed. “After all, we were married once. I just wanted to remind you of your status, Myra. You have to be wary of any man that approaches you; either he doesn’t know that you’re a divorcee or he knows that marrying you will bring him wealth.”
In an instant, her body began to tremble with anger. She had to try with all her might to suppress the rage in her chest and stop herself from flinging the items in the bag at him. She jeered, “Well, I apologize for the disappointment, but the man I’m with now already knows that I’m divorced, and he doesn’t care about my paltry fortune. Sean Chase, not all men are as malicious as you are. You sent me to prison in your place. How audacious of you to show up in front of me now and give me this invitation?”
His expression turned even worse.
While he looked at her gloomily, he also wondered why he had reacted that way. It seemed like he was a little jealous because she had found another man right after she divorced him. That awareness made him lose control over himself.
“You’re already with another man!” He had a faint scowl on his face. “I knew you seemed too indifferent when we got a divorce! Who knew you were already with someone else? How can you be so cheap, Myra?”
“I’m cheap?” She was about to go mad. Various past events resurfaced in her mind; from having her dignity trampled on by them to being framed. She glared at him with a chilly expression that she never had before. “Well, I guess I stalked you for all those years because I’m cheap. I am truly sorry. I will live a more dignified life from now on and stay far, far away from you!”
She emphasized the word ‘far’ several times as if she was worried it would be insufficient to express her meaning. After hearing her words, Sean’s expression changed. He was just about to say something when her phone suddenly began to ring.
The incoming call was from ‘Hubby’.
After Tony left last time, Myra realized that his name on her phone had changed, but she did not correct it.
The anger that was boiling in her chest dissipated immediately as soon as she saw his number. Instead, she felt a slight sense of misery and answered the call without a second thought.
“Hello?”
“Where are you now?” Tony’s voice came through the phone. He had probably been smoking because his voice sounded fuzzy.
Biting her lip, she replied, “I’m downstairs in the apartment.”
He paused for a while, then said, “Turn around.”
Clearly, Sean had also seen the incoming call. Feeling shocked, he looked at her with a newfound contempt, ridicule, and some other vague, indescribable emotion.
He watched her turn around in surprise and followed her line of vision to a black Maybach not too far away.
That Maybach looks rather familiar. All of a sudden, he remembered. While I was on that street outside the detention center that night, I saw this car drive out the entrance of the center.
A man was standing gallantly next to the door of the Maybach. He was tall, handsome, and was dressed in a black suit and a pair of black leather shoes. The surrounding air around him felt chilly. His presence did not seem ordinary, and it also felt slightly overbearing. As soon as Sean and Myra looked at him, he tossed the cigarette in his hand and squinted at them. With a hand in his pocket, he started to take one step after the other toward them.
Myra was slightly shocked by Tony’s words. I thought he was coming back tomorrow. Why is he back a day early? In the next moment, she remembered the situation that she was in. Even though she did not intend for this to happen, she was currently standing with Sean. He sounded so calm earlier. Could he be mad?
Tony quickly made his way over. Although there were not many people by the entrance of the apartment, there were still some people passing by, but he walked right through the crowd. The remnants of the sunset that fell on him softened the blank expression on his face and gave him a relaxed elegance.
When he arrived before Myra, he stretched a hand out naturally and pulled her into his embrace. Looking down at her with a gentle smile, he asked, “Why do you look so surprised? Aren’t you happy that I came back earlier?”
His gaze was tender; even more tender than it was when he was with her in the past. It was so overwhelming that she froze for a moment. Not long after, however, she felt a sharp pain in her waist. Knitting her brows together, she looked at the man beside her and saw that his eyes were narrowed with a slight look of danger in them.
That was when she knew that he was jealous.
For some reason, she was not worried anymore. Squinting with a smile, she no longer had the hostility she had when she was talking to Sean earlier. In a soft voice, she answered, “Of course, I’m happy.”
“Did you miss me while I was gone?” It seemed like Tony was not satisfied. He went on to pinch her cheeks and looked even more gentle as though he did not see the man with a grim expression before them.
Myra knew that he was doing it on purpose. Since she did not want to brush off his efforts, she gave him a nod. Her big and clear eyes looked earnest and tender. “Yes, I missed you so much.”
The light in her eyes seemed captivating with every blink. Tony tightened his grasp around her waist and snatched the white-colored invitation from Sean’s hands abruptly.
“It looks like you’ve come here to give out this invitation. We’ve troubled you, Director Chase, for coming all the way here to personally give Myra her invitation.”
Am I hallucinating? When Tony said the word ‘personally’, it sounded full of ridicule.
Meanwhile, Sean looked incredibly hurt as he watched the loving couple in front of him. She really is with another man now. But, it was not just any man; it was Tony Hart, the man she had been romantically involved with in the past.
Sean had even thought that they were pretending. When the theft of the business secret in Hilliville happened, he did feel like he had been betrayed, but he eventually concluded that she wasn’t that kind of woman. The love she had for me was not an act. How could she have been tied up with another man? Even though Myra got caught leaving Tony’s office, he figured that they had most likely discussed it, and she was only trying to make Sean jealous.
But how could he explain all of this now? The daily necessities for men in her bag… She couldn’t have known that I was coming today, could she?
