"Sergio, where is my wife?" Hansen asked harshly as soon as Sergio picked up his call.
Sergio was lying languidly on the bed, watching Jenna get up from his arms in a panic. Her face was blushing red and Sergio admired her embarrassment. He was in a very good mood.
"It's really weird. Your wife is missing and you're asking for me if I know where she is. Where is the logic in that?" Sergio lay there lazily and his tone was faint, but he was looking at Jenna's face. He imagined Hansen's furious look in his mind, and he felt incredibly pleased. The smile on his face slowly widened.
Hansen gripped the steering wheel tightly. Listening to Sergio's calm manner of speaking, he was certain that Jenna must be with him.
The look in his eyes was frightening. He held his breath and said coldly, "Mr. Xanthe, do you think it's appropriate for you, a high-ranking official, to be with a married woman? Do you want me to go to the disciplinary inspection committee or to Capital City to report it?"
Hansen knew that politicians like Sergio cared for their political prospects more than their own lives.
They didn't want to get involved in scandalous affairs. So, that was how he subtly reminded Sergio.
However, this time, Hansen had it wrong.
He immediately heard Sergio chuckling indifferently over the phone. His laughter was extremely relaxed, and the message he conveyed was as if he couldn't wait for him to do it. This troubled Hansen and made his heart sink.
"Mr. Richards, do you think everyone is a coward? It depends on the people. For example, I would rather suffer from such scandalous love affairs for your wife Jenna. It doesn't matter." He smiled. Looking at Jenna's stunned expression in front of him, he gave her a comforting smile. He continued in a domineering and taunting voice, "I, Sergio, don't mind bearing any scandalous love affairs for your wife. The more, the better."
"You... are incredibly shameless." Hearing Sergio's shameless reply on the phone, Hansen was so enraged that his hands were trembling. With a livid face, he gnashed his teeth and cursed.
"Haha!" Sergio burst out laughing over the phone.
Jenna stood still and listened blankly to Sergio, who was lying on the bed and talking indolently to a cell phone in hand.
There was no doubt that this call must have been
from Hansen.
Did this mean that Hansen was downstairs?
"Hansen?" The thought flashed across her mind. She couldn't help but to cry out and stepped forward to run outside.
"Jenna, wait a minute." Sergio hung up the phone in time and stopped her. "Are you really going to meet him like that? Don't you want to consider being more reserved and think about what he had done to you, before forgiving him? If so, you will become more hurt in the future. Believe me, I am saying these words now for your own sake, so that he will feel threatened and start cherishing you."
Sergio's words were as though a bomb had been thrown into Jenna's mind, and she instantly felt as if her heart was broken into pieces.
In her mind was an image of Hansen carefully and considerately holding onto Liya. Her feet were fixed upon the ground and she could no longer move a step forward.
"And if you go out like that, it's obvious that you were with me. This would not be good for your image. I don't mind, but you are a woman, and your reputation is more important." Sergio slowly walked to her side. His tone was very serious and his face was full of consideration and concern for her.
Jenna's face was very pale. She stood there blankly for a while and slowly knelt down.
She hugged her head with both hands. She felt a headache and her heart ached even more.
Only then did she remember to look for her mobile phone, but it was obvious that when she ran out in a daze, she didn't bring her phone along with her.
She closed her eyes and said nothing.
Sergio stood in front of her, looking down at the haggard woman with complicated emotions in his gaze.
Now that all kinds of accusations had been entirely hurled at her, would she be able to withstand it?
Zoella was truly f*cking malicious.
If only Madam Lilian could come forward to explain all of this.
Perhaps Jenna could be exonerated from prison, but she wouldn't be clear of the accusation of leaking confidential information, unless she could provide evidence to counter those accusations. If she couldn't, even if she didn't have to go to jail, she might not be able to stay in the country any longer.
This was a huge blow to Jenna.
This was also an outcome Sergio didn't want to see.
The most important thing now was to present the evidence to challenge the accusations made against her.
Moreover, under these circumstances, he was unwilling to let Jenna reconcile with Madam Lilian for the time being.
He thought to himself and took a deep breath. Then, he saw Jenna stand up, approach the window, draw the beige curtains open, and look down.
He also came over and stood next to her.
Both of them looked downstairs.
He saw that Hansen's slender figure was standing in front of the building, looking like a statue that did could not be moved at all.
Tears blurred Jenna's sight in an instant. She leaned her head against the window, and the beige curtains made her face look so pale that it was terrifying.
After a long time, Hansen left after he didn't see Jenna coming out.
As soon as he left, Jenna came out of Sergio's bedroom.
She walked aimlessly on the street and didn't know where to go.
The thunder in the sky began to rumble, and it grew louder and louder along with the lightning.
One drop, two drops... Torrential rain soon fell from the sky.
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