Ste hit Julian a few times in anger. “You told me you had something to do, but you were busy sleeping with this woman. How could you do this to me?”


    Ste was furious, and Julian’s attempt to protect Aubrey only made things worse. Ste pulled Julian’s hair, hitting and cursing him, still not satisfied. “Put on your clothes ande back with me. Or do you still want to sleep with this woman?”


    Julian, stunned by her shouting, nced at Aubrey, picked up his clothes, and followed Ste out in shame. Aubrey was also bewildered; she didn’t dare say anything in the face of Ste’s aggression.


    On the way back, Julian kept exining. “Ste, listen to me. Nothing happened between Aubrey and me. I don’t know what happened. I saw a man trying to take advantage of Aubrey, so I went to save her…”


    “I think the one taking advantage was you! ying the hero now?” Ste was fuming. “Julian, we’ve been married for over thirty years. You’re not young anymore, yet you’re still sneaking around behind my back. How could you do this to me? Divorce!”


    “I won’t divorce you! There’s nothing between Aubrey and me. I was going to introduce her to Reginald.”


    Ste got even angrier. “What? You want to bring her into the Sterling family so you two can be together under my nose? Our son’s surgery failed, and you’re out fooling around? You’re heartless.”


    Julian was speechless.


    Then he thought of something. “Ste, it was Reginald who asked me to go out. I’ll ask him to testify for me.”


    Ste retorted, “Did he ask you to book a room with Aubrey?”


    Julian had no response.


    When they got home, Ste started packing her clothes, threatening to leave.


    Their argument was loud enough for Grandma Sterling, who was resting in her room, to hear. She came out and saw Ste with a suitcase. “Ste, where are you going sote?”


    With tears streaming down her face, Ste said, “Mom, Julian has been seeing another woman behind my back. I caught him red-handed. I can’t live like this anymore.”


    Ste stormed out, and Julian couldn’t stop her.


    Grandma Sterling was confused and asked Julian, “What’s going on? Are you seeing another woman? Who is she?”


    “Mom, it’s not true; it’s all a misunderstanding. I can’t exin it clearly.” Julian’s mind was in a fog, and the fact that he and Aubrey were found in bed together didn’t help.


    “But Ste said she caught you! What happened? Exin yourself!” Grandma Sterling was so angry she almost hit him with her cane.


    Julian sighed and said, “Reginald asked me to handle something outside. I happened to see Aubrey unconscious being taken by a man. I thought she might be in danger and decided to follow them. Then I felt a pain in my backside and cked out. When I woke up, I was in bed with Aubrey next to me. That’s all that happened.”


    Grandma Sterling knew her son well enough to believe he wouldn’t have an affair with Aubrey if he intended to introduce her to Reginald.


    She suggested checking the parking lot surveince footage for rity.


    “Right! I’ll go now.” Julian hurried to the restaurant’s parking lot.


    However, the surveince footage showed nothing unusual-no sign of Julian or Aubrey at all.


    The cameras were working fine; the timestamps matched perfectly with no gaps or discrepancies-yet there was no trace of what Julian described.


    Seeing the footage left Julian dumbfounded; he wondered if he had encountered something supernatural.


    The hotel above the restaurant did have hallway footage showing two people entering a room together.


    Julian waspletely bewildered and called Grandma Sterling: “Mom, something weird is going on. The surveince shows Aubrey and me entering a room together, but I have no memory of it.”


    This left everything unexined.


    Aubrey also came back to check the hotel surveince after gathering herself and ran into Julian there.


    Seeing herself being helped into the hotel room by Julian left Aubrey with aplex expression: “Julian, it was you? Do you… like me?”


    Aubrey thought Julian liked her and that introducing her to Reginald was just an excuse to get close.


    Julian’s mind was in turmoil: “How could I like you? This footage is fake.”Original from N?velDrama.Org.


    “Julian Sterling! After what happened between us, are you saying you won’t take responsibility?” Aubrey didn’t care about the details; she just knew she couldn’t let this slide after being found in bed with him.