"Am I being unreasonable?” Henry frowned.
Yvonne took a deep breath. "Yes. For me, what you did just now was unreasonable."
Henry was infuriated by what she said. He pursed his thin lips coldly. "Yvonne, you said that I was being unreasonable. Is it wrong for me to protect my own wife? Is it right if I let my wife be touched by other men?"
Yvonne noticed that he was angry now. She became anxious. "That’s not what I meant. I just feel that you overreacted just now. You don't want other men to touch me. I understand that. But it’s just a trivial affair given the kind of physical contact I had with Shane just now. Why did you have to..."
"A trivial affair?" Henry's voice became cold. "Yvonne, do you think that it was a trivial affair?"
"Isn't it? He just patted my head with a folder. He didn’t even use his hand. Why do you have to care so much about that?" Yvonne said.
Henry was completely infuriated by her now. He was soon engulfed in deep coldness. "Why did I care so much about that? Yvonne, don't forget that you’re my wife. As my wife, is it considered normal if you’re fooling around with the other men?" "What do you mean by that?" Yvonne clenched her fists tightly. Her voice became louder too. "So for you, I was fooling around with Shane just now. Then how about you and Jacqueline? Didn't you act more intimately with her?"
"Jacqueline and I?" Henry was stunned.
Yvonne closed her eyes, forcing herself to stay calm." Yes. You and Jacqueline hugged each other, and your relationship with her was quite intimate. Did I say anything about that? No, I didn’t. I endured everything and suffered in silence. But what did you do? You threw your double standard on me. Don't you think that it's rather ridiculous?”
Henry moved his thin lips slightly. He said hoarsely, "I don't have double standards." 1
"Didn't you have that?" Yvonne laughed sarcastically." How could you say that you didn't? At first, you were i n a complicated relationship with Jacqueline, and you asked me to stay away from other men. Isn’t that a double standard?"
Talking about that, she stretched her hand out and pointed at his chest. "Besides, you’ve always been a dominant and mighty man. You never allow anybody t o resist you. You asked me to stay away from other men, and I did that. I even deleted Shane's contact number once. But how about you? Did you do that?"
Hearing that, Henry’s facial expression darkened. At that moment, he found himself unable to answer her questions.
In fact, Yvonne expected him to act like that. She looked up at the ceiling as if she wanted to force back her tears.
After a few seconds, she heaved a heavy sigh before continuing, "You can't seem to answer that, right? It's normal even if you can't answer that. It's because you were unable to do that. During our marriage, you acted intimately with your ex-girlfriend. It's a wrong deed. It could even be considered as a morally wrong act."
"I admit that it was indeed my fault by being too close with Jackie during our marriage. But what does it have anything to do with morality?" Henry frowned, and he was slightly annoyed.
Yvonne sneered. "You still refuse to believe it. Fine, let me ask you this. If Shane has a girlfriend, will you be too close with her?"
"Of course not." Henry gave his reply immediately without any hesitation.
"See, even you said that you won't. But why did you commit such a mistake with Jacqueline?" Yvonne looked at him in contempt. "You were a couple before. But you’re married now. Have you ever seen any man having a complicated relationship with his exgirlfriend after he got married? Besides, Jacqueline knew it perfectly well. But she still came after you, refusing to let you go. Tell me. Doesn’t it have everything to do with morality?"
Henry became speechless after listening to what
Yvonne said. He could not even retort to her.
It was because what she said was true.
A normal person who had good manners would never have any kind of contact with his exes if he had another lover now.
Moreover, both he and Jacqueline made such a mistake like that.
"I'm sorry. Regarding this..."
"You don’t have to say anything anymore." Yvonne waved her hand weakly and interrupted Henry. "I'm exhausted and desperate. I don't want to hear it no matter how much you're going to say. I just know that you're incapable of ceasing contact with your exgirlfriend. How could you even demand me to not have any kind of contact with other men? Moreover, there's nothing between me and them. But you’re different, so..."
"So what?" Henry fixed his gaze at her.
Yvonne averted her gaze. "So when you cease contact with Jacqueline and you’re not going to meet her anymore, you'll then have the right to ask me to stay away from other men." i
Actually, she always wanted to say that to him.
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