Chapter 517


    Whenever Natalie saw Jeremy, she couldn’t help but recall the scene of him


    with Annabelle.


    “Natalie, you’re my wife,” Jeremy reminded her.


    Natalie’s eyes reddened, and she tightly bit her lip. “Jeremy, we’re already preparing for divorce. I


    don’t want to see you. Do you even realize how much I hate you? Did you ever think about the fact


    that you had a wife when you cheated?”


    Jeremy had shattered everything. He had turned their love into a joke. Yet now, he acted as if none


    of it had happened. He even refused to agree to a divorce. Natalie couldn’t fathom what he was


    clinging to.


    “I’m giving you your freedom. You can be with other women. Why do you need to fool around behind


    my back?”


    Listening to Natalie’s increasingly unreasonable words, Jeremy replied in a deep voice, “My affair


    with Annabelle was an ident. I won’t be with any other woman, Nath. I can’t divorce you.”


    Even now, Jeremy couldn’t understand himself. He didn’t love Annabelle, yet he couldn’t control


    himself at a crucial moment. He had indeed betrayed Natalie, but he couldn’t just let go.


    “An ident?” Natalie scoffed. She smirked at Jeremy’s causal use of “an ident” to downy his


    affair.


    Natalie felt increasingly air.


    about who Jeremy was.


    “Let’s go home,” Jeremy said in a low voice.


    Natalie’s face turned pale. She felt a chill run through her. She pushed away Jeremy, who was


    approaching her. “I hope you agree to divorce soon! Jeremy, I can’t forgive you.”


    She hurriedly hailed a cab by the roadside and gave the driver her apartment’s address.


    Jeremy stood frozen in ce. His spine stiffened as he stared at the cab disappearing into the


    distance. It took him a long time to snap out of it.


    He hadn’t gotten into his car. He took out a cigarette and lighted it slowly.


    Smoke rings were exhaled one after another.


    He looked somewhat dejected.


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    Seeing this from the driver’s seat, Victor couldn’t fathom it. Given Jeremy’s deep love for Natalie,


    Victor wondered how he could have had an affair.


    Jeremy was trying to win Natalie back now. Victor doubted Natalie would forgive Jeremy so easily.


    Just as they entered Gxy Vi, Joe received a call.


    Faintly, Skr heard Rowan’sughter on the other end of the line.


    Rowan said, “Andrew actually posted another update on Instagram, apologizing specifically to


    Skr. Many people are asking what exactly happened.


    “Although Skr’s name wasn’t mentioned, he self–analyzed where he went wrong. It’s hrious! I


    heard Mr. Hughes Senior personally pped him, and his face swelled up from it.‘


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    Joe’s tone carried a cold edge. “Anyone who dares to touch what’s mine must have some nerve.”


    Skr’s heart skipped a beat when she heard him calling her his. She nced back at Joe.


    Joe also looked at her.


    When their gazes met, Joe’s deep and distant eyes quickly withdrew.


    Skr smiled subtly. After all, she was Joe’s acknowledged wife. Regardless of their rtionship’s


    emotional nuances, her status alone meant Joe wouldn’t tolerate any disrespect toward her.


    “Andrew probably didn’t expect a casual fondue dinner to end up in such big trouble. He thought it


    would be like any other time he flirted with a beautiful woman,” Rowan remarked.


    Joe wasn’t keen on small talk with Rowan. “I have things to do. I’ll hang up.”


    After ending the call, Joe walked over to Skr.


    Since getting into the car, neither of them had said much. However, Skr’s indifference to who her


    husband was had left Joe somewhat dissatisfied.


    “I’ll go take a shower,” Skr told him.


    The sudden events of the day disrupted her ns with Natalie. They originally intended to go


    shopping at a nearby mall.


    Suddenly, Joe stopped her. “Wait.”