As she spoke, Ashlyn tore the photos into pieces.
Nathaniel nodded, satisfied. “You are a straightforward person. It’s a pity that you and Gordon are not fated to be together.”
Ashlyn smiled but didn’t say a word. The tension in the air was no longer there, and everything was peaceful.
Nathaniel couldn’t sit still any longer. He got up and left, Denise in tow.
Ashlyn watched their retreating backs and said, “I don’t know if this old man is willing to keep Denise in check.”
Talia smiled. “I think Nathaniel is furious. Denise will suffer when they return home.”
Ashlyn’s eyebrows shot up at this. “You’re right. He has always been sensitive about his reputation. That’s why he chose to defend Denise. But things will be different once he goes back home.”
She wondered if Denise would be able to walk the next day.
The floor was cold at this time of the year. Denise’s knees would hurt if she had to kneel for a long time.
Gordon did not leave immediately after he exited Crowbar Technologies.
He sat in the car, lit a cigarette, and stared out of the window at the busy traffic. He only started the car after he had finished smoking.
When Aiken called him, Gordon had been sitting outside Ashlyn’s apartment building for half an hour.
Night fell. Gordon looked out of the car’s left window to see Courtbush’s downtown area.
His phone vibrated with an incoming call.
He picked it up and frowned when he saw who was calling.
Gordon didn’t want to answer Aiken’s call, but the constant vibration was disturbing.
He made to turn it down but accidentally touched the answer button.
Aiken’s voice was clear in the quiet car. “Are you crazy, Gordon? No matter how much you hate Ashlyn, you don’t have to post such things on the Internet!”
Gordon was about to hang up but Aiken’s words gave him pause.
He put the phone to his ear and said, “What are you talking about?”
Aiken, on the other hand, had just finished a meeting and didn’t know much about what had happened.
He was good friends with Gordon and had known him for almost twenty years. Still, Aiken felt that Gordon hadn’t done right by exposing Ashlyn on the Internet.
Moreover, he was the one to tell Gordon about the comic book. Gordon would never have known otherwise.
Aiken felt a little guilty at this thought and couldn’t help cursing as he called Gordon.
Aiken said angrily, “You said that Ashlyn was the author of the comic on the Internet and that she intervened in your relationship with Raina. You’ve gone too far, Gordon! If my memory serves me right, you proposed to Ashlyn, didn’t you?”
“What are you talking about? When did I do that?”
Aiken was stunned. “It was not you? Who knows about the comic book apart from you?”
The call disconnected before Aiken could finish talking.
He looked down at his phone in disgust, muttering, “Jessie is right. Gordon is a shameless man!”
Gordon immediately logged in to Twitter after ending Aiken’s call. A few minutes of scrolling later, he understood why Jessie had come to Crowbar Technologies and said all those things to him.
Gordon’s expression darkened as he scrolled through the trends.
He had never even thought of adding salt to Ashlyn’s wound. He didn’t think that she had come between him and Raina.
There were all kinds of comments on the Internet. People were mocking Ashlyn’s teenage love for Gordon.
They were calling her despicable and shameless for being the other woman in Gordon and Raina’s relationship and marrying him.
Gordon’s heart hurt as he looked at the comments.
He still remembered what Jessie had said to him not long ago. The comments on the Internet disgusted him to no end.
Jessie’s words and the online comments confused Gordon and made him feel lost for the first time in his life.
Gordon glanced at the screen before logging out of Twitter, ready to call Ashlyn. But he couldn’t find the courage to press the call button.
The news had been on the Internet for several hours and was still spreading. Hundreds of thousands of people in Courtbush probably knew about it by now.
For no reason at all, Ashlyn had been made out to be the person who had come between Gordon and Raina, which had turned her years-long love into something indecent.
This was the first time that Gordon was feeling guilty for Ashlyn after their divorce.
Gordon changed his mind and called Lowell instead.
Lowell answered almost immediately, uncertainty and fear in his voice. “Mr. Jones?”
“Who posted the news on the Internet?”
There was no need to investigate because Lowell had just found out who had manipulated the whole thing. Denise was the one who had done all of this in such a foolish and reckless manner. After seeing the news, Lowell had arranged for people to find out the truth. After all, this was something that concerned Gordon.
Lowell had known that Denise was behind it before Jessie had come to Gordon’s office and scolded him. That was why Lowell hadn’t had the time to report it to Gordon.
After Jessie had scolded Gordon, the latter had left, his expression sour. Lowell had wanted to tell Gordon about it but had given up on second thought.
As he saw that Gordon was calling, Lowell guessed that it was something to do with the news.
Although he had been mentally prepared, he was still terrified to hear the question from Gordon. He replied carefully, “Mr. Jones, it was your sister.”
He didn’t dare say anything else.
Gordon was struck speechless.
Denise, his own sister, had done this.
It didn’t make a difference, whether he had done it or Denise.
Gordon thought back to what Jessie had said. “Do you think the Jones family can push Ashlyn around just because she is softhearted?”
His expression darkened at the memory.
Gordon looked at Ashlyn’s apartment one last time before starting the car and driving back home.
At the same time, a black car slowly rolled up and stopped at the gate to the Jones family’s residence.
Nathaniel got out of the car with Carl’s help. Seeing that Nathaniel was extremely irritated, the butler at the door quickly lowered his head after greeting him. “Mr. Jones.”
Having worked in the Jones family for so long, the butler knew that Nathaniel was furious right now.
Nathaniel didn’t enter the villa. Instead, he looked back at Denise, who was still sitting in the car, and said, “Change your clothes and come to the living room.”
Denise was stunned, her face paling.
She looked up at Nathaniel, wanting to beg off it. But she didn’t dare say anything at his furious expression.
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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