Turning around, Sharon asked, "Yes, is there anything else?"
"When we went to the hospital just now, were you looking for Stanley?" Shawn looked at her eyes. "Because you did not find him, it caused your mood to be unstable?"
All the way here, her expression was ghastly, and Shawn saw it.
Knowing that he was smart, and would definitely guess it, so Sharon did not try to hide. Instead, she nodded and said, "Yes."
Frowning, Shawn asked, "What was he doing in the hospital?"
Pressing the corners of her mouth together, Sharon did not say a word.
"Was he sick?"
"... No, it's not like that."
"I guess he was not sick, because you would have been worried about him, and not like how you're acting now." Shawn thought for a while and immediately understood. "Was he accompanying someone else in the hospital which made you uncomfortable?"
Stabbed by his words, Sharon's chest started to feel stuffy again.
Continuing on, Shawn said in a low and deep voice, "Usually, a woman's anger for a man is nothing more than the man's fault. Since you're angry, I guess that Stanley accompanied a woman in the hospital. Moreover, they have a special relationship. That's why you're so abnormal, and also quiet on the way here, right?"
Again, Sharon pressed the corners of her mouth together, the lines on her chin tensed up. He was right, not a single word was wrong.
Seeing her reaction, Shawn frowned deeper. "Sharon, I have one more question. I want to ask you."
"If you want to know why Stanley was in the ward with that woman, I'm sorry, but I don't know either..."
"That's not the question."
"What was it then?"
Staring straight into her eyes, almost as if Shawn wanted to look deep into her soul. "Why did you marry Stanley in the first place?"
This question was asked by Shawn previously, but Sharon did not give him an answer. She did not expect that he would ask again.
Opening her mouth, Sharon wanted to say something, but Shawn was ahead of her and said, "You said that you married Stanley because of money. At that time, I just found you, and when I heard those words, I was furious... These days, after I had carefully thought about what you said. It was because of your father's medical expenses, so you married Stanley, right?"
"... Yes!" Sharon did not hide anything from him, she just nodded.
Laughing, Shawn said, "Now, did you ever thought of why Stanley wanted to marry you?"
"He needed a wife..."
"He needed a wife, and it so happens that he met you, and then paid for all your father's medical expenses?" Shawn stared straight at her. "Was that what you wanted to say?"
Indeed, that was what Sharon wanted to say.
But for some reason, when she looked into Shawn's eyes, her heart was a little flustered.
"And you believe in that?" Shawn said slowly, "You believe that Stanley needed a wife, and happened to meet you, even kind enough to save you from your troubles? Sharon, do you believe in these coincidences? These excuses?"
Word by word, Shawn's words cut through the problems in her heart like a sharp blade.
Causing Sharon to breathe rapidly. Biting her lips, she asked, "What do you mean?"
Though she had thought about these questions before, at that time, she did not care. So, she did not take it to heart. Now... Sharon did not want to go deeper...
"I don't mean anything, but I just want to tell you that man, especially shrewd men like Stanley; they have their own plans and preparations for everything they do. I don't believe that he would just run into you by accident, and coincidentally needs a wife."
Hearing that, Sharon's heart was in a panic, but she pretended to stay calm on the surface, "In this world, a lot of things are coincidental."
For example, Rebecca, Sharon thought that she was dead, seven years ago. But after seven years, she came back to life again.
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