Chapter 345 Who’s the Joke On Now?
Paul said, “You’re just being dramatic and fake!”
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Yunice replied casually, “Say what you want, but at least Wyatt only has one woman right now. He gives me a sense of security. Can you?”
She had just finished speaking when Paul suddenly let out a mocking laugh. His expression was full of contempt–smug and triumphant, as if Yunice had just done something incredibly stupid that gave him immense satisfaction.
“Wyatt only has one woman? You really think that highly of yourself…” Paul hadn’t even finished his sentence when he let out a sharp cry of pain and jumped back a step.
He was shaking his hand like it had just been burned.
Yunice looked down and only then noticed the still–burning cigarette butt on the ground. It had clearly fallen from the floor above.
She looked up–and saw Wyatt standing by the upstairs window. Her heart tightened, and her expression darkened.
When did Wyatt get here?
How much of what I said just now did he hear?
Does he care?
Wyatt’s moods were always unpredictable. Sometimes he was easy to talk to. Other times, he’d snap over just one sentence and wouldn’t rest until someone paid the price.
Wyatt stared dead–eyed at Paul, his voice completely flat. “What were you chatting about with your aunt?”
Paul’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he forced down two dry swallows.
He knew Wyatt had been in a bad mood these past few days. No one dared cross him at a time like this.
Without saying a word, Paul turned and walked away.
Yunice eyed Wyatt warily. But after a moment, she realized he wasn’t even looking at her.
She figured Wyatt probably didn’t feel like dealing with her right now, so she quickly left, heart heavy, already thinking about how to smooth things over the next time they met.
Paul was just ahead of her. Yunice thought to herself–she couldn’t let Wyatt get angry for nothing.
She caught up to Paul. “You always act so high and mighty, but the second you saw my husband, you turned tail and ran. And you call me the one with no spine? Who’s the coward now?”
Paul glared at her, but remembering his earlier humiliation, he didn’t want to provoke Wyatt again–and that meant not. provoking Yunice either.
But Yunice had no intention of letting him off easy. She went on, “You’ve been hiding out in the compound so much, you probably don’t even know how people outside are laughing at you. They say you’re a Ninja Turtle, with the Hulunbuir grasslands growing on your head–and you’re too dumb to even know it.”
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