Love Comes Secretly After Their Contract Marriage novel Chapter 199

Buzz... Buzz...

The phone was still vibrating on the bedside table like it wouldn't stop until he picked it up.

Henry's patience was running thin by the noise it was making and he finally brought the phone to his ear." Who is it?"

The person on the other end of the line fell silent.

The frown on Henry’s face deepened as his annoyance grew. Just when he was about to hang up, the other person finally spoke up.

"Henry, it’s me..." Jacqueline’s aggrieved voice rang out.

Henry's eyes darkened. "Jackie?”

"Yeah." Jacqueline nodded and smiled wryly. "You deleted my number? If not, you would have recognized — H me.

"No, I didn't." Henry closed his eyes in exhaustion. "I didn't look at the screen so I didn't realize it was you."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

Jacqueline smiled, "I see, I thought you deleted my number."

Henry didn't continue the conversation and instead asked indifferently, "Do you need anything?”

"Not really. Just missing you a little and I wanted to hear your voice,” Jacqueline replied a little shyly.

Henry pressed his lips, subconsciously feeling a little disgusted. "Hear my voice? Jackie, didn't I tell you that we shouldn't contact each other anymore?"

The expression on Jacqueline's face froze. "Yes... but..."

“Since you remember what I told you, then I'll hang up now. Don’t bother calling me again in the future," he said.

Just when he was about to end the call, Jacqueline called out to him desperately, "Henry, wait!"

"Do you have anything else to say?” he asked coldly.

Jacqueline bit her lip. "Are you still mad at me and my dad?”

Henry remained silent.

Anger flashed across Jacqueline's eyes, but her voice remained apologetic. "I'm sorry, Henry. I know my dad did an extremely terrible thing, but it was all for my sake. I would have stopped him if I could, but...”

"Enough," Henry interrupted her, "I'm not in the mood t o listen to you.”

Jacqueline's eyes widened and tears immediately welled up in them. "Not in the mood? When did you start being this impatient with me, Henry?”

Henry was startled.

Yeah, when did he start getting this impatient with her?

He was so annoyed that he didn't even want to hear her voice. He was even annoyed at the fact that she would call him.

Jacqueline's heart sank at the long silence, as a huge sense of crisis welled up in her heart. She tightened her grip on the phone and asked, "Henry, did something happen to you?"

"Why do you ask?" he questioned. 1

Her eyes flickered. "Because you seem like you are in a very foul mood. You can tell me if something happened. I might be able to shed some light."

Henry hesitated.

She continued pressing upon seeing his reaction," Don't you believe me?"

"I can tell you, but..." Henry trailed off.

Jacqueline rolled her eyes. "But what?"

His Adam's apple bobbed slightly. "It's nothing really. I recently read a short story..."

"About?”

Henry paused for two seconds before telling her the dream that he had earlier, with the characters' names replaced.

She was very puzzled after hearing all that. "Henry, why would you read such a story?"

"I came across it by accident," Henry lied without a slightest change in his expression.

Perhaps it was because he was extremely composed when he was retelling the content of the dream, but Jacqueline didn't find anything strange or even suspect anything. She even analyzed it seriously with him. "Does the story bother you that much, Henry?"

"A bit. I just didn't understand why the male protagonist would think that way," Henry said with unknown emotions in his eyes.

Jacqueline chuckled. "Of course because he is jealous."

"Jealous?" Henry frowned.

"Yes, jealous."