Joshua spoke impassively, face devoid of emotions.
He crossed his legs and leaned back against the sofa gracefully. "I'll give you one last chance to tell me what you're looking for. Are you really looking for other women's hair?"
Alice slumped onto the floor as soon as she heard this. She lifted her head and shot Joshua a somewhat helpless look. "Joshua..." she trembled. "Can you pretend you didn't see any of that?"
She did not dare tell him the truth.
"If you don't want to be honest with me, then I'll make my guess.” Joshua looked down at Alice from his seat on the sofa and continued, "You've been very quiet and obedient for a while now. I naturally thought you had changed, but you didn't at all. You were just afraid that I’d divorce you, so you didn't dare do anything bad to Luna."
Joshua propped his chin up with one hand and glanced at Alice, whose face was as white as the wall behind her. "While I was here in Sea City, you searched my study and my office at Lynch Group Tower, but you couldn't find the divorce papers at all, s o you assumed that I brought them along with me on my trip.
"You came all the way to Sea City because you knew
that as soon as I returned to Banyan City, I'd put the divorce papers back into my study or office, and you wouldn't be able to look for them without me noticing. Now that I'm in Sea City, it's much easier for you to search for them because if they're not in the hotel, they’d be with me.
"That’s why you came all the way here and spiked my food twice, just so you can find the divorce papers without me knowing, right?"
The color drained from Alice's face as soon as she heard this. She never expected to get exposed on her first day arriving in Sea City.
Alice closed her eyes in despair.
It turned out that the money she had given the butler and Joshua's secretary did not manage to bribe them after all. Otherwise, Joshua would not have found out i f it were not for them.
Emotions of despair and hopelessness clouded Alice like spider webs.
She knew that this time...Joshua would not give her another chance. She had experienced firsthand just how cold and heartless this man could be.
Despite that, however, she still wanted to try her luck." No, that's not it..." She clung onto the hem of Joshua's pants and pleaded, "Joshua, listen to me..."
"Alice," said Joshua as he rubbed his eyebrows in exhaustion. "Let’s get a divorce.”
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