Chapter 30
1 barely moved a muscle. Holding up the message, I showed it to Dexter, deliberately fuming. “Who the hell is this? Is this one of your admirers, or are you really sneaking around behind my back with some other woman!”
Dexter froze when he saw the message, his body stiffening for a few seconds before he quickly tried to explain.
“I don’t want to hear your explanations,” I interrupted. “If you’re innocent, then–call this person back right now. I want to know exactly who shameless person is
Dexter hesitated, “Isn’t this a bit extreme!”
Why should you just let someone insult me like this?” I snapped. “Dexter! I still haven’t figured out what happene patience! Call her right now!”
happened at that hotel, so don’t test my
I didn’t gave him a chance to back out. He took my phone from my hand and I immediately dialed the number. The call went through, but no one answered. I tried several more times, but the result was the same.
1 took his phone. “Use yours”
is person is obviously messed up, but do we really want to get down to their level! I don’t
“Honey Dexter seemed reluctant, “I mean, I get it This
want us to look like we’re the same kind of people.”
I scoffed. “Are you going to call or not?”
He pressed his lips together, then, after a long pause, sighed. “Fine, I’ll do it.”
He dialed the number from his phone and put it on speaker. We both listened closely, but once again… no one picked up
I frowned in confusion, wondering, ‘Am I overthinking things? Could it be that this woman doesn’t even recognize Dexter’s number?” Suddenly, it hit me, and I cursed.
myself. ‘Sylvia, how can you be so dumb! Dexter has another phone–of course, that’s the one he uses to contact her.
At this point, my little test had been pointless, like a dead end.
Dexter looked at me helplessly, “I called, but no one answered. Maybe I should try again later?”
I shook my head. “No need. I’m going to rest now, You can pick up Juno later
I trudged to my room, feeling utterly drained. I was exhausted, and though I couldn’t sleep, I knew I had to rest. I needed all the strength I could Kather to handle what was coming next.
I forced myself to lie down for a while, but not long after, Dexter came in to ask if I needed to go to the hospital. I refused.
He noticed the fatigue on my face and gently kissed my forehead. “I’ll go pick up fur
I closed my eyes and murmured, “Okay”
up Juno. You try to sleep a bit.”
After he left, the house fell into complete silence. My mind was a whirlwind of thoughts. “Should I go for the phone hidden in the drawer now!” As I besitated, I heard the door creak open again. Dexter had returned.
Before he could steps inside. I quickly turned over, pretending to be asleep. He called my name softly, but I didn’t respond.
Then I heard him softly rummaging through the drawers. After a moment, he let out a quiet sigh of relief and closed the drawer. I couldn’t help but feel a little lucky that fid been just a second slower.
Glearly, Dexter didn’t believe that
that my getting up
plast night was an accident. He was still keeping an ey
an eye on me.
Once he confirmed that the plour was still in place, he finally left the room.
I opened my eyes and first clacked on Martha. But then I realized, Kimberly was nowhere to be seen.
Marilia sa
ja said, “Kimberly had landhand left after that. I didn’t ask her where she was going
It seemed like Martha and Kimberly were will maintaining their usual, distant relationship–like “live and let live?
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