Ashlyn was more decisive and tenacious than many people, but love could blind a person, rendering them a fool.
What Talia feared most was that Ashlyn would forgive Gordon if the latter wanted her back.
Noticing Talia kept glancing at her throughout the ride, Ashlyn raised her eyebrows and asked, “Is there anything on my face?”
Embarrassed, Talia answered quickly, “No.”
“So why do you keep staring at me?” Ashlyn asked.
Talia pursed her lips and explained, “Before your father left, he asked me to protect you well if you ran into the Jones family again.”
Hearing this, Ashlyn was stunned for a while. She felt both moved and guilty. “Do I look that weak?”
Talia shook her head, but she couldn’t help but say, “Arabella is by no means a simple woman…”
Ashlyn sneered. “No, she definitely isn’t.”
If she was a simple woman, how could she have married into the Jones family so easily?
Arabella’s family wasn’t as rich as the Jones family. The only thing that made her better than Ashlyn at that time was that her family owned a company.
But that wasn’t what Talia meant. She looked at Ashlyn and hesitated.
Stevie told her not to tell the truth to Ashlyn. She knew he didn’t want to make his daughter sad.
But Talia didn’t think that Ashlyn would feel sad if she knew it.
Seeing that Talia had fallen silent, Ashlyn asked, “Are you hiding something from me?”
It had to be said that Ashlyn was as keen and sensitive as her father.
Talia paused to organize her thoughts. Then, she took a deep breath and explained. “Last night, your father asked me to find out who Gordon was with that night. It turns out that that woman was not Arabella.”
The smile on Ashlyn’s face disappeared. “So Gordon’s not interested in Arabella anymore? So soon?”
Gordon had never had sex with Ashlyn once in their three-year marriage. Ashlyn thought he was doing this to be loyal to Arabella.
Talia looked at Ashlyn and said, “That woman was Raina, Arabella’s sister.”
Ashlyn stared at the leather seat before her for a long while, stunned. When she came to herself, she asked, “Arabella has a younger sister?”
She didn’t know anything about it.
Talia had only just learned that Arabella had a younger sister. So she took it upon herself to make a little introduction about Raina to Ashlyn. “Five years ago, Raina met with an accident and was in a vegetative state. She was taken abroad for treatment.”
“Does this accident have anything to do with Gordon?” Ashlyn asked.
Talia hesitated at Ashlyn’s question since she wasn’t sure if Ashlyn still loved Gordon.
Ashlyn smiled at Talia’s hesitation and asked, “What’s the matter? Do you think I still love Gordon?”
Talia was embarrassed that Ashlyn knew what was on her mind. “I hope you don’t.”
“Don’t worry,” Ashlyn said, smiling, “I won’t get back together with him.”
Ashlyn wouldn’t indulge in the past.
Talia nodded before recounting the whole story. “Six years ago, Leon…”
Leon had a mistress. She asked Leon to divorce Jenifer and marry her. There was no doubt that he refused. His two sons were old enough to get married. And his interest in that woman was temporary.
Leon paid her a fat sum of money to keep her from pestering him.
The woman kept her word. Later, Crowbar Technologies and Brice Technologies were competing for a project. The people at Brice Technologies, having learned of Leon’s mistress, paid her some money and asked her to make trouble for Leon.
The mistress had received money from two sides. The people from Brice Technologies only asked her to create scandals for the Jones family.
However, her family knew about her being Leon’s mistress. She was scared that her family would blame her, so she lied that Leon had deceived her and that he had refused to marry her.
Armed with this information, the woman’s younger brother came to negotiate with Leon. He couldn’t find Leon, but he did learn about Gordon and Amor after some investigation. At the time, Amor was out on a business trip, so Gordon became his target.
Gordon had just finished studying abroad and entered Crowbar Technologies. Raina happened to be with him that day. She pushed him away when the woman’s brother tried to hit him with his car. She became bedridden after the accident.
This had been a sensational scandal for the Jones family and they had paid the media to not report it. If Talia hadn’t investigated Raina, she wouldn’t know about this.
Ashlyn felt ridiculous on hearing all of this. “So, the woman who Gordon has loved all these years is Raina, not Arabella.”
Talia looked at Ashlyn, her lips pressing into a thin line as if she was holding back from saying something.
Ashlyn looked at Talia, dissatisfied. “Talia, I will be angry if you keep doing this.”
Talia’s face paled before she continued to narrate the most important part. “Back then, Gordon and Raina were dating while Arabella and Amor were in a relationship. After that accident, Raina’s parents asked Gordon to marry her. But Nathaniel disagreed, saying that only one of the two sisters could marry into the Jones family.”
“That explains it,” Ashlyn sneered.
No wonder Gordon hadn’t been intimate with Ashlyn in their marriage. What a deep, touching love!
If Amor hadn’t been in a relationship with Arabella, Gordon would have married Raina, who was paralyzed back then.
Although that hadn’t happened, Gordon had kept his integrity by marrying Ashlyn, which was also a way to stop Nathaniel from getting on his case.
This was undoubtedly a love for the ages.
Talia understood that Ashlyn’s mind was troubled, so she kept her mouth shut.
Ashlyn said nothing either, silence falling over the car.
She didn’t expect that things would turn out this way.
She had been thinking Arabella was the one between her and Gordon. It turned out that she was wrong all this time. The realization was like a thorn in Ashlyn’s heart.
Ashlyn was lost in thought when the car stopped. “We are here, Miss Ramos,” Talia called out.
Ashlyn nodded and muttered, “Thank you. Good night.”
Talia saw that Ashlyn looked calm, so she flashed a faint smile and said nothing more.
“Ashlyn.”
Ashlyn heard a familiar voice call her immediately she got out of the car. She shut the door and looked in the direction of the voice.
“Devin?” Ashlyn raised her eyebrows, surprised.
She wasn’t expecting to see him tonight. Devin had not reached out to Ashlyn for a couple of days, so she had assumed that he had given up on her. The sight of him warmed her heart and she smiled.
“It’s a beautiful night. What do you say we go out and enjoy the view of the full moon together?” Devin asked, staring at her with his bright eyes.
For a short while, Ashlyn was lost in his stare, but she quickly looked away. “It’s a windy day today.”
“I’m not in a good mood. Walk with me, please.” Devin clicked his tongue.
Ashlyn’s mood was not very good either. She thought about Devin’s request for a while before asking, “What if I don’t want to?”
“Come on. Get in.” Devin opened the door of his sports car.
Ashlyn laughed as she walked to the car.
Devin ignited the engine when Ashlyn was well seated. As the car sped on, she opened the car window. The gust of wind stung her face.
Soon, the car halted when the traffic lights turned red. Devin took the opportunity to look at her.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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