Chapter 655


    From outside the window, clouds gathered and the strong winds howled wildly. Lightning lit up the


    skies. A rainstorm was brewing.


    Suddenly, thunder roared, and the lightning lit up J’s shocked expression.


    But Brandon didn’t give a damn. He didn’t say anything tofort her. Instead, he walked out of the


    office without another word.


    J watched him leave with tearful eyes. She didn’t even try to stop him.


    And even if she did, she wouldn’t know what to say to this cold and aloof Brandon.


    Brandon was like apletely different person now. He would never be so impatient with her before.


    When she looked into his malicious eyes just now, she found herself unable to even breathe.


    How could she face her husband, who was now aplete stranger to her?


    J felt like her whole world was crumbling down.


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    The Whites took shelter in a five-star hotel during their stay in Seacisco. They texted J, telling her


    not to worry too much.


    Beal also mentioned that he had asked someone to investigate what had happened to Brandon the


    past few days. As J’s parents, they couldn’t just go back to Barnes without finding out what


    happened to her husband.


    Soon after they checked into the hotel, they received a call from Draco. Draco said that he was calling


    because he was worried about J. Johanna knew that they wouldn’t be able to solve J’s


    problem any time soon, so she asked Draco if J could file for a long-term leave from thepany,


    to which thetter agreed.


    As the thunder roared outside the window, it rained cats and dogs.


    With every passing minute, Johanna grew more and more worried about her daughter. Before long, she


    heard a knock on the door.


    She opened the door and found J staring nkly into space, drenched to the core.


    Johanna was taken aback. She hurriedly pulled J inside the room and asked, “It’s raining so hard


    outside. Didn’t Brandon drive you home?”


    Judging from the expression on J’s face, it seemed that the conversation between her and


    Brandon didn’t go so well.


    “It’s okay. You can stay here with us.” Johannaforted J softly. Then she looked at Beal and


    ordered, “Go ask the front desk to get J a presidential suite.”


    Seeing his daughter in this state, Beal also felt terrible. He sighed in his heart. Before leaving, he


    reminded his wife, “Stay with her. She needs you. If things go on like this, we’ll go back to Barnes—


    without Brandon.”


    Johanna winked at him. Then she went to the bathroom to fetch J a towel. As she was drying


    J’s hair, she asked with concern, “Can you tell me what happened?”


    J hadn’t spoken a word ever since she got here. Her eyes seemed to be covered with a thinyer


    of mist, losing their original vitality.


    She shook her head bitterly, took the bath towel from Johanna, and started drying herself. “He still


    didn’t tell me anything.”


    “Your father asked someone to investigate the matter a few hours ago.” Johanna could only try her best


    tofort her daughter.


    “Mom, just tell me everything you know. Don’t worry. I can take it.”


    “We don’t know anything useful yet. Our priority now is to find out what happened to Brandon when


    Charis took him to the hospital. The Turner family is powerful here, and they own that hospital. We


    can’t just send someone there to investigate.”


    Johanna was also puzzled. Brandon had turned into apletely different person overnight, but there


    were no clues as to how or why.


    After drying her hair, J went to the bathroom to change out of her wet clothes.


    In desperation, it suddenly urred to her that there might be someone who had answers.


    “Garrett, are you in Barnes now? Have you noticed if there’s anything wrong with Brandontely?”


    It was past midnight now, and Garrett was asleep when J called. When he answered the phone, he


    was still foggy and half-asleep. J’s questions only stunned him further.


    “Hmm… Brandon? Well, yeah. He has been a little strange recently.” Garrett yawned sleepily. “What


    happened to him?”


    “That’s what I wanted to ask you. I got into an ident some time ago and I wasn’t in Seacisco the


    past few days.” Garrett was Brandon’s best friend. J figured that he might know something.


    Garrett gradually came up. “I did sense that there’s something off about Brandontely. His attitude


    toward me has been very strange. It’s almost as though he’s been on guard against me. But he refuses


    to tell me why. The most strange thing about him is that he seems to only trust Charis now.”


    J’s expression instantly darkened. She said firmly, “Charis must have done something to Brandon.”


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    But what on earth Charis had done to make Brandon be like this? J had no idea…