Chapter 67 – Twisted Fate of a Billionaire’s Daughter Undercover

Ashlyn smiled at his words and said, “What do I want? I think I should be asking you this question.”

Gordon’s face darkened, seeing that she wasn’t going to admit it. “You got the reporters, and you said all that to them on purpose. You exposed Raina to the public to make people think that I and my family wronged you. Am I right?”

Ashlyn burst into laughter and her eyes looked colder. “Don’t forget that you were the one to propose marriage to me. But did you do your duty as a husband over the past three years? Did you speak for me when your family tormented me? Did you defend me when Arabella made things difficult for me?”

She paused and took a deep breath before continuing, “You think you didn’t do anything wrong since you didn’t cheat on me or abuse me, don’t you? Marriage is a sacred thing. You wronged me the moment you wanted to marry me to use me as a shield, and not as a wife! As for what happened tonight, yes, I just wanted the public to know your relationship with Raina. Don’t you know why? Didn’t you marry me to cover up your relationship with her? Why can’t I fight back? At least, I did it fairly and above board, unlike you!”

Ashlyn paused again. This time, she looked at him and said coldly, enunciating every word, “Gordon, you are the most disgusting person I have ever seen.”

Gordon recalled what Ashlyn had said to him.

He looked at the closed door before him, his expression and mood a dark storm.

He didn’t know how long he had been standing there. It wasn’t until he heard footsteps in the corridor that he turned around and left.

Aiken was dancing with two beautiful girls at a bar when the bartender came over and pulled his sleeve. He was about to lose his temper, but the bartender raised his phone which showed that Gordon was calling him. He suppressed his anger and pushed away the two women beside him.

The bartender knew that Aiken didn’t like to be disturbed. But seeing that his phone rang for a long time and that the call was from Gordon, he thought it right to remind Aiken.

In the twinkling of the bar lights, the anger on Aiken’s face faded. He pulled out some money from his pocket, handed it to the bartender, and thanked him.

Although he was angry that he was disturbed while having fun, he didn’t vent it on the bartender.

The bartender thanked Aiken profusely.

Aiken answered the phone as he made his way to the sound insulation room on the second floor.

He lit a cigarette as he spoke into the phone. “It’s late. Did you want to talk to me about love or money?”

“I’m in T1. Come on up.” After that, Gordon hung up.

Aiken’s eyebrows shot up. He had the feeling that there was something wrong with Gordon.

It was a coincidence that Gordon was also in the bar.

Aiken stubbed out the cigarette and went to T1.

T1 was on the third floor and completely soundproof. When he entered, he couldn’t hear the noise downstairs.

As a regular customer, Aiken knew where T1 was without even looking. When he arrived, he knocked on the door and said, “It’s me.”

He then pushed it open and walked in.

He laughed at the sight of the wine on the table. “What’s going? It isn’t like you to be drowning your sorrows in alcohol!”

Gordon was an unsentimental man. Aiken had known him for years and had never known him to get drunk to drown his sorrows.

There were two bottles of wine on the table, and Gordon was holding a glass in his hand. Aiken knew at one glance that there was something unpleasant on Gordon’s mind.

As Gordon’s friend of more than twenty years, Aiken was obviously not one to take pleasure in Gordon’s misfortune.

Aiken stopped laughing and sat down beside Gordon. “Tell me, who makes you so angry that you’re drinking alone?”

Gordon stared coldly at Aiken for a while before he asked, “Did I hurt Ashlyn?”

Aiken was stunned to hear this. He raised a hand, intending to touch Gordon’s forehead, but Gordon swatted it away.

“Let me see if you have a fever. Why else would you ask such a question?” Aiken said.

“If you don’t want to talk properly, get out!”

Aiken had to give up, seeing that Gordon was getting angry. “Okay. Do you want to hear the truth?”

Gordon didn’t say anything, merely looked at him as if he was looking at an idiot.

Aiken raised his hands in surrender. “To be honest, Ashlyn made the right decision to divorce you. Do you understand me?”

The meaning behind Aiken’s words was obvious. He said Ashlyn had made the right decision to divorce Gordon. It meant that even Aiken thought that Ashlyn shouldn’t have married Gordon in the first place.

Gordon froze. Without another word, he swirled his glass of wine before downing it in one go.

Aiken sighed at Gordon’s silence. He said cautiously, “To be honest, didn’t you marry Ashlyn just because your grandpa forced your hand? We used to think that you hired Ashlyn to play the role of your wife.”

But nobody had realized that Ashlyn took the marriage so seriously.

When Ashlyn married Gordon, they all thought that Gordon had hired her to deceive Nathaniel.

It didn’t matter if Gordon liked Raina or not. The fact that Nathaniel was forcing Gordon to marry another girl of the same status had probably left him with no choice but to hire someone to play the role of his wife.

To these rich people, solving things with money was easy.

But obviously, Gordon and Ashlyn’s marriage was not that simple and money couldn’t solve whatever was between them.

Gordon had thought that Ashlyn had married him for money, but the truth was that she had done it for love.

When Ashlyn married into the Jones family, everyone thought she did it for money. But how ironic a thought that was! It turned out that she was the daughter of the richest man in Bluepond. She wasn’t lacking in money.

Gordon looked up at him with a dark face and said, “I never thought of divorcing her.”

Aiken looked at his childhood friend for a long minute and asked, “But were you a good husband to her? If it weren’t for the fact that we’ve known each other for so many years, I would have slapped you, Gordon.”

Everyone in the upper class of Courtbush knew that Denise and Arabella had worked together to deal with Ashlyn again and again.

It was true that Ashlyn had made a fool of herself on important occasions, but it was because they had set her up.

She might have been Gordon’s wife, but nobody had thought of her as Mrs. Jones.

In the past, Aiken thought that Ashlyn deserved this treatment, thinking she was a gold digger.

But now, he knew that she hadn’t married Gordon for money. She had done it for love.

No matter how biased he was towards Gordon, he couldn’t side with him on this.

“When you married Ashlyn, did you tell her that you were a contractual couple? Did you ever tell her that your relationship was based on money and that your contract could be canceled if you guys were happy together?”

“No.”

Aiken clicked his tongue. “Tsk! Tsk! You proposed marriage, didn’t you? She married you because she loved you with all her heart. You didn’t treat her as a wife after you got married. You didn’t care when she felt bad. Is that what a husband would do? Or do you think you were qualified to be a husband just because you didn’t cheat on her or abuse her?”

Aiken paused before continuing slowly, “Or did you think that she didn’t deserve you from the very beginning?”

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