“You?”Luna said nothing else when she realized it was Joshua who entered.She shut the door to the room and leaned against the door. She looked at him coldly. “It’s late. What are you doing here instead of being with the missus, Mr. Lynch?”It did not faze her that Joshua managed to locate her. After all, with his power in Banyan City, locating her whereabouts was a piece of cake.Joshua leaned back on the sofa and was rather pleased.He saw how she reacted. When Luna did not recognize who it was that entered, she thought it was Theo instead and got angry.However, when Luna realized it was Joshua, her hostility immediately vanished. She was even quite relieved.Her reaction proved that he was a trustworthy person in her heart.Far more than Theo, at least.“I’m here to apologize.”Apologize? Luna furrowed her brows. “About how your grandmother destroyed my design sketches?”She took a deep breath. “You’ve already repaid me with a two-day grace period.”Then, she coldly
“You’re the arrogant one right now!”Luna gritted her teeth and glared at him. “You intrude into my house while I’m not paying attention. What right do you have to call me arrogant?”Her detest and hostility toward him were written all over her face.Joshua hated Luna like that.He hated the mockery and indifference in her eyes. He hated that she did not have any regard for him.He could not help but constrict his grip on her neck even tighter. “I wanted to properly apologize to you today and also discuss Neil and Nellie.”Neil and Nellie. Luna’s heart lurched as Joshua mentioned those two names.She closed her eyes as her voice trembled, “Don’t you dare mention Neil and Nellie. You’re not worthy of them.”He clutched Luna even tighter.Joshua was strong; so strong that he could have snapped Luna’s neck in two.Luna bore through the pain. She forced herself to breathe and continued, “I received Nellie’s call tonight. She cried on the phone, sobbing at how uncomfortable her
Luna lifted her head and looked at Joshua. She sneered, “How pretentious. They’ve already gone to bed after medication. What’s the use of you going back now? Are you going to wake them up and then reprimand them for telling me this? It’s true. You’ve long said to not let Neil and Nellie contact me. You don’t want me to be in touch with them! However, you also said that you’d take good care of them. Is this how you take good care of them?” Every word was like a sharp blade that stabbed into Joshua.He furrowed his brows and tried his best to explain himself. “I knew nothing of this! When I’m home, they told me that they didn’t want any dinner. I didn’t know what happened to them!” he said with helplessness and anger. “You don’t have to push all the blame to me and get angry with me!” He then lowered his head and looked at Luna as he tried to remain calm. “First, I don’t know if this is true or not; the kids might be exaggerating. Alice is their mother, and she wouldn’t treat them t
Forget about that.Luna closed her eyes and told herself to take it all in as a mere dream. In her dream, he was still the Joshua she was once head over heels for. She told herself to treat it as facing adversity for Nigel’s sake.Luna mocked, “You already have Mrs. Lynch. Isn’t that enough?”Joshua’s eyes darkened. Flustered yet enraged, he bit her lower lip harshly. “I was busy for the past few days, and she’s been unavailable these few days. Are you happy with the answer?”Luna chuckled in his ear. “So you only came to find me because she’s unavailable?”Joshua’s eyes darkened. Wordlessly, he hugged her tightly and buried his head in her neck tiredly. He had no answer to that question. Perhaps he was no longer that close to Alice anymore during their six years apart. Perhaps he only loved the version of Luna Gibson six years ago, not the present Alice.No matter what, his reasoning told him that he had to be close to Alice sexually whenever he faced her, but his body a
Joshua rubbed the middle of his brows as a splitting headache tormented him.He did not have any alcohol the night before, but he felt dizzy as if it was a hangover.Alice panicked when Joshua said not a word to her. “Joshua, are you still angry at me? I genuinely know what I did wrong. Jealousy blinded me. I saw how Luna could work together with you at Lynch Group, so I became resentful and jealous. I’ve been reflecting after leaving with you last night, and I was wrong. I shouldn’t have hired a PR company to further boost the news just because someone broke the news. I already got them to stop around eight. You must’ve seen it too, but around ten, someone posted the surveillance footage of that day anonymously. The video is making rounds now, and more and more people are rebuking me. What should I do?”Joshua furrowed his brows. “I’ll check on it.”“Hmm.” Alice sniffled a little as she croaked, “Let me know how it goes. If it’s Luna, I’ll be willing to apologize to her in person.
What was Joshua’s new excuse?He was not drunk. He was well aware the entire time that she was Luna and not Luna Gibson.However…Ding, dong! The doorbell abruptly rang.Accompanied by the doorbell was Theo’s concerned voice. “How are you? Are you feeling better? I brought you some breakfast. Come and have some.”Theo still remembered how Luna felt depressed due to Nellie’s call.“Luna?”Joshua furrowed his brows. He was about to get up and open the door, but Luna held him back.“Don’t embarrass me! It might not be embarrassing for you, but it is for me!”She bit her lip and pushed Joshua into the bedroom. “If you dare come out, I’ll immediately publicize the footage of Alice at the art gallery!”Luna then closed the bedroom door. She also placed Joshua’s shoes behind her luggage.With all that done, Luna took a deep breath and opened the door.“You’re up?” Theo chuckled gently. He entered the room.Luna could not stop him in time. She could only follow him sheepishly.
“Put that down!”Just when Joshua was staring at the photo album in a daze, he suddenly heard a woman’s voice from behind him.The next second, Luna immediately rushed forward and snatched the photo album from Joshua’s arms. “Who gave you the permission to touch my things?!”This photo album was a birthday gift from Nigel. He spent his days in the hospital ever since they found out he had leukemia.Although Nigel was young, he was aware of life and death. He was afraid that he might die one day and that Luna might miss him, so he secretly made this photo album for her.“There are no photos where Neil and I are together in this album. If I were to die one day, treat me and Neil as the same person.”Nigel’s words back then still rang in her ears.Seeing how nervous she looked, Joshua furrowed his brows. “Neil has had a serious illness?”“No.” Luna turned around and carefully kept the album away. “Only the small flu.”“He stayed in the hospital for a few months because of the sma
The only other person Luna showed the video to was Nigel.Nigel was a mature kid, and he would not have simply posted the video. Other than him, there was no one else.“I’ll give you a day to properly think of it. Best if you could give me a list of those who’d be able to obtain the footage. I want to investigate them one by one.”Luna felt that it was strange. “If you think that the news is bad, why don’t you just block it?”Joshua looked at her coldly. “This footage will affect Alice. I have to check the source of it and prevent that person from posting it again, so Alice doesn’t have to suffer.”Luna found it comical at his pretense of caring for Alice.He slept with her the night before, yet he could worry about Alice on her bed at that moment, thinking of how to settle problems on Alice’s behalf.What a great man.Suddenly, the doorbell rang once more.Theo’s clear and gentle voice came through. “Luna, are you ready? We should go.”“Coming,” Luna simply responded before