Chapter 34
Chapter 34
Chloe’s eyes widened and her chest tightened.
Her gaze was intensely deep as she stared into Joseph’s eyes. Her glass–like almond–shaped eyes were already captivating, but at that moment, they seemed to be ablaze with two fiery orbs, burning with a searing intensity.
Even a man with such a strong aura like Joseph flashed his eyes, wanting to avoid his gaze.
After a while, Chloe smiled, her gaze extremely distant, as if they had never met before.
“It turns out that Mr. Sawle ran over here to vent his anger on his wife and denounce me for my crimes. If you don’t catch me to vent your anger, will you explode on the spot?”
“Joseph, you are really at your limit.”
“Three years of deep love, I don’t ask you to remember me, but you shouldn’t repeatedly use such insulting words to degrade my personality!”
“Moreover, I no longer belong to you.” Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!
“No, it should be said that you have never let me belong to you. I am a stray cat who has been standing outside your heart waiting for you to bring home. I am full of enthusiasm and eagerly looking forward to it. In the end, what you hate the most is the abandonment.”
“Just because of this, I should endure your ruthless trampling? There is no such reason in the world!”
“It is a pity that people like you, Joseph, can even see through the sky yet you can’t help the Brown Group weather this disaster, right?”
“Given Miller’s violation of KS Group’s interests, his acceptance of a bribe, and the fabrication of evidence to frame others, his crimes have been conclusively established. If you wish to save him, there is no way to do so.”
Chloe’s eyes suddenly became sharp, and the smile on her red lips was charming. “You are too angry, and you can’t turn the situation around. So you can only find trouble with me on the matter of divorce or marriage, satirize me, and humiliate me to vent your anger.”
“But I, Raya, don’t listen to you. I will fight for what I want, and I will not
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turn my head back.”
I don’t care what others think of me, even if it is you, Joseph. I want Brown Group to be finished. I want Brown Group to pay for what they have done. I can do anything I want. No one can stop me!”
Joseph’s strong arms were tight under the suit, and the blue veins on the back of his hand were bulging.
Now that she had a backer, how bold and confident Raya was!
He knew what she said was wrong, but he could not give her the correct
answer.
That was, ‘I was not angry because you used the two brothers from the Thorp Group to punish Brown Group.’
‘Instead, when I saw you smiling at Riley like a flower, my heart was in a mess.‘
“Shame on you!”
Joseph’s breathing suddenly became heavier, and he spat out three words. “Shame? I really have to thank you for not utilizing a worse word to describe me.”
Chloe tried her best to laugh frivolously, piercing her eyes. “But what does my shame have to do with you? Who do you think you are to me? I can do whatever I want. What qualifications do you have to criticize me?” There was no need to continue chatting, so she turned around coldly and wanted to leave.
Unexpectedly, Joseph grabbed her arm unwillingly at this moment. It was her left arm that had just recovered a few days ago, and the strength was shockingly heavy!
“Oh… let me go!” Chloe was in pain, but she did not dare to struggle, afraid of affecting her old injury.
“Raya, you know who I am to you.” Joseph’s throat was hoarse, and his eyes were full of intense probing.
It was like they were gamblers on the table, and the mentality of wanting to win forced him to rack his brains to search for her trump card.
“Who else could you be? Nothing more than a useless ex–husband!” Chloe was so angry that she laughed.
“Raya!” Joseph’s eyes instantly turned red.
“Joseph! Let go of me!”
Suddenly, a tall figure flashed in front of Chloe and pushed Joseph away, protecting her under his body.
“Jordan, I’m fine. Mr. Sawle is just chatting with me.” Chloe comforted Jordan without any fear.
“Had a good chat? He touched your injured arm! The day before yesterday, you complained that you were not feeling well. Wasn’t it all thanks to him?” Jordan glared at Joseph, her whole body ringing the alarm.
Joseph’s heart shook violently.
Chloe looked at Jordan, who was so angry that his face was red. She felt that she really did not need to say this in front of this man, as if she was putting on a show.
“You are the secretary beside Oscar?” Joseph recognized Jordan at a glance, and his face was gloomy.
“Yes, but I am…”
Chloe pulled him hard, her eyes indicating for him to shut up.
Jordan was smart and immediately noticed something. He quickly closed his mouth.
“Ha, Oscar gave you his most trusted secretary. He is really good to you.” Joseph put away his complicated emotions and his face became as cold as iron. His thin lips curved into a cold sneer. “Congratulations, you are going to marry into another rich and powerful family.”
“Before, I was fooled by you. Now it is Oscar’s turn. I hope you will never be seen through by him.”
Every word was like a knife and a spear, piercing through Chloe’s heart and forcibly stirring it up.
Jordan instantly felt that the breath of the young lady in his arms was unstable, and her thin shoulders trembled.
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But what puzzled him even more was Joseph’s words. Was his brain smashed by a meteorite? What nonsense was he spouting?
“Jordan, let me make a grand introduction.”
“This is Sawle Group’s Mr. Sawle. He was my ex–husband who had a marriage with me for three years.” Chloe took a deep breath.
“What…” Jordan’s face turned pale as if he had been struck by lightning.
The Eldest Young Miss had disappeared for three years, and she had h
actually married Joseph?
She had gone to be Joseph’s wife without telling the world?
What was she trying to do?
“But now that we are divorced, I have nothing to do with Sawle Group anymore. If we meet again in the future, we will be strangers.”
“We have not officially divorced yet! Grandpa’s birthday…”
“Enough! Don’t use grandpa as a cover anymore!”
Chloe suddenly became furious, and her eyes turned red. “Didn’t you only dare to humiliate me because grandpa said that you wanted to maintain a marriage relationship before his birthday?”
Joseph’s body trembled, as if he had been bitten by this woman’s sharp teeth, and he was in so much pain that he took a deep breath.
Had Raya ever been so angry before that moment in his memory? She had always been a person with no temper, and talking to her was like punching cotton; he had never experienced any emotional response from her.
But this time, her eyes were full of anger and hatred.
It was a hundred times better than the last time she was in the hospital.
“We are just teetering on the brink of a divorce. The emotions you have extinguished, you were unfaithful to your marriage first. Have I ever held you accountable for anything?”
“But what right do you have to make me become a chaste woman for you after being widowed? Do you want me to never marry again? How can you be so selfish!”
Selfish?
Joseph felt a sharp pain in his chest.
He did not know that his behavior was gradually becoming abnormal, and he did not know why he was so stubborn about his ex–wife who was divorced.
“What’s more, I never broke my promise. Before Grandpa’s birthday, I would always keep our divorce a secret. It was you who didn’t handle it well and allowed Grace to expose all of this in advance.”
Chloe pursed her lips bitterly, and the last light in her eyes toward Joseph was extinguished. “Now that you blame me instead, I can understand.”
“Because you can only blame me. You can’t blame Grace, right?”
Joseph’s whole body froze in the wind as if it had been petrified.
He watched helplessly as Jordan helped his ex–wife leave, his face so hot that it was like someone had pulled a bow and slapped him countless times.
“I don’t want to turn my head back.”
Joseph clenched the palm of the void.
It was clearly him who gave up on her first.
Why was it that he was like the person who had been abandoned, his throat was filled with bitterness and her heart seemed to have been pierced…