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“You yourself are not innocent, so what right do you have to demand her fidelity?”
Joaquin placed the teacup on the table, his eyes filled with a cold aura.
“Bang-”
The sound of the teacup hitting the table was especially heavy.
“Joaquin, how can you speak for her? After all, she’s an outsider. I’m the descendant of the Bowman family.”
“Since you know you’re a descendant of the Bowman family, how can you shamelessly betray your wife?” Joaquin lifted his gaze, his eyes icy cold. “Don’t tell me that nothing happened between you and Ms. Lambert.”
“I…”
Jericho was instantly at a loss for words.
“You betrayed her first, so what right do you have to condemn her?” Joaquin said word by word. “Even though you two haven’t divorced, in reality, your marriage is already in name only, isn’t it?”
Jericho looked at the man’s expression, feeling more and more that something was off.
Why was Joaquin always protecting Romina now?
At that moment, a knock came from outside the door. “Mr. Jericho, Mrs. Bowman asked you to give Mr. Kashton his medicine. Mr. Kashton won’t let her do it.”
The auntie’s voice interrupted Jericho’s thoughts.
“Go ahead and take care of it. I’ll check on the child later.”
Joaquin picked up the teacup on the table and drank it in one gulp.
Jericho nodded slightly, said nothing more, and then left.
At this moment, at the end of the first–floor corridor.
Romina looked at the heavy rain outside, her heart sinking to the bottom.
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Just now, she had gone upstairs to give Kashton his medicine, but the child refused to take it and even broke the bowl.
Although she had long since stopped having any hope for them, her son’s attitude toward her still made her feel uncomfortable.
She didn’t want to stay in this house for even a moment longer, planning to return to Breeze Vista as soon as the rain stopped.
“Feeling down?”
At that moment, a low voice suddenly sounded behind her.
Romina turned around at the sound and saw that Joaquin had somehow appeared behind her.
Romina did not respond to his question but instead asked, “Mr. Bowman, why did you suddenly come here today?”
“Sir Bowman heard that Kash wasn’t feeling well and was worried, so he sent me to check on him.”
Romina nodded thoughtfully, then continued to look out the window without replying.
“Has he been making things difficult for you ever since he found out about that?”
Joaquin’s voice sounded in her ear again.
Romina turned to look at him, her long lashes trembling slightly.
After thinking for a moment, she said calmly, “After something like this happened, it’s only natural for him to make things hard for me. What man would like his wife…”
She found it hard to continue her sentence.
“You’re about to get divorced. What wife?” Joaquin reached out and pinched her chin, forcing her to turn her face toward him. “At most, you’re an ex–wife.”
When their eyes met, Romina saw a strong hint of anger in the man’s eyes.
Joaquin gazed at her brows and eyes, his gaze involuntarily falling on her lips.
His Adam’s apple bobbed unconsciously for a moment.
Romina still caught this subtle change.
She quickly turned her face away and lowered her voice. “Mr. Bowman, this is Landwin Villa…”
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The next second, the man suddenly grabbed her hand and pulled her toward the nearby storage room.
With a gentle twist, he instantly opened the storage room door.
Before Romina could react, Joaquin had already pressed her against the door.
Joaquin looked down at her. “So what if it’s Landwin Villa? Are you afraid he’ll find out that the man that night was me? Hm?”
Romina’s heart suddenly leapt into her throat.
She really hadn’t expected Joaquin to suddenly bring her in here.
She lowered her voice and asked, “Joaquin, what are you doing?”
“What are you nervous about? Anyway, the accusation of ‘another man‘ is basically set in Jericho’s mind. Are you still afraid he’ll see this?”
“But we both know that’s all fake, we…”
Before Romina could finish her sentence, Joaquin pinched her chin.
He forced her to lift her face and look him in the eye.
“Fake?” A hint of anger flashed in Joaquin’s eyes. “Kissing me was fake, letting me see everything was fake, those kiss marks were fake too–then tell me, what was real?”
Romina was instantly at a loss for words.
For the first time, she realized that Joaquin was actually a very dangerous man.
“Since you say it’s fake, why don’t I let you feel it again and see if it’s real or not.”
Romina looked at him in shock. “What are you trying to do?”
Her words had barely faded when Joaquin suddenly leaned in.
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