Chapter 206

Abel was in Blakewell Corporation, but he was also absent-minded all afternoon. He gave it some thought and felt that what Mrs. Greenwell said made sense. Ruth was not someone who made trouble out of nothing.

But what other mistake did he make?

The phone on the table vibrated. It was a call from Apollo. Abel frowned and answered it. “What’s the matter?”

Apollo sounded flustered and anxious. “Does Ruth know the truth?”

“Yeah. What’s wrong?”

The calm answer made Apollo splutter.

Did Abel just ask him what was wrong?

“You don’t sound anxious at all. She didn’t get angry at you and just accepted the truth peacefully?” Yet she told him to eat sh*t. How unfair.

Abel’s silence made Apollo relax. “So she got angry, right? Aren’t you anxious after doing something wrong?”

Abel sounded helpless. “I apologized to her, but she didn’t accept it.”

The underlying message was this: There’s nothing else I can do.

“You only apologized to her? Did you do anything else?”

“What else?”

Apollo wa