A Matter of Wife and Love novel Chapter 197

Chapter 197

Elyse did not seem to hear Amelie as she swiped her fingers furiously across the phone screen.

Elyse’s rude actions upset Amelie greatly, and she involuntarily raised her voice at Elyse. “If you don’t return my phone to me right now, then don’t blame me for being rough with you!”

Elyse abruptly pushed the phone screen into Amelie’s face and pointed fixedly at a phone number displayed on the screen. “I knew it! You were on the phone with Leony earlier! How shameless can you be, Amelie! We are engaged! Why are you still trying to seduce him?”

Amelie was utterly speechless. She never imagined that discussing where to have lunch with Leo would be considered an act of seduction.

“You have misunderstood the situation. I am simply thanking him by treating him to a meal,” she patiently explained. Regardless of the circumstances, Elyse was Leo’s fiancée. She did not wish to be misunderstood and wrongly accused of being a homewrecker.

Elyse snorted with disdain. “Sure. You’re just thanking him by asking him out for a meal today. What about tomorrow? Are you going to thank him by inviting him into your bed tomorrow?”

Those words were extremely harsh.

“Miss Clayton, please watch what you say!” Amelie coldly reprimanded the other party.

Elyse snorted again. “Am I wrong? If I had not checked your phone myself, you could have used the excuse that Leony was the one who initiated contact with you! The evidence is right before us! It’s clear that you are the one who is harassing Leony! How dare you harass him yet prevent me from speaking my mind?”

As she spoke, her chest heaved intensely.

She had been trying to contact Leo over the past few days, but he had stoutly refused to answer her calls. Finally, with no other choice, she decided to visit the hospital to try her luck. She did not expect to overhear Amelie’s conversation over the phone.

At this moment, she was furious. It wasn’t just that Amelie was suspected of seducing Leo. She was even more upset over the fact that Leo would rather answer the calls of his ex-wife, who was kicked out of the house than talk to her! His fiancée!

For her, that was tantamount to pure humiliation. The more humiliated she felt, the more she wished she could retaliate at Amelie in return!

Amelie stared at Elyse, whose face was twisted into a hideous scowl and who had lost her usual graceful composure. Her heart sank bit by bit in her chest. She was wrongly accused, but she couldn’t even find the words to explain her innocence.

Although she was the one who made the phone call, Leo was the one who suggested having a meal together. But who would believe her words?

Following a brief pause, she took a deep breath to calm her mind and intoned coldly, “Miss Clayton, you are right. However, upon careful consideration, even if Mr. Alston had saved me, we can only consider ourselves even. Nobody owes the other party anything. I’ve been remiss. Please convey my message to Mr. Alston. Tell him that I will not treat him to lunch anymore.”

Then, she snatched her phone back from Elyse’s hands and strode away.

Elyse widened her eyes and glared fiercely at Amelie’s back. “Shameless!”

Her heart was filled with hatred. Oh, how she wished she could tear Amelie to pieces! Unfortunately, they were at the hospital. There were too many eyes and ears around. If others were to see her unsightly appearance, it would only affect her negatively.

After she mulled over her options, she forcefully suppressed the hatred in her heart. Then, she turned around and stomped away in her high heels.

Not far from where the two women had stood earlier, Leo stood with eyes resembling a pool of ice. A faint trace of emotion appeared on his stern and unwavering yet handsome face.

He had arranged for the meeting to be held in the hospital. When he received the phone call from Amelie earlier, he had been in the meeting room that the hospital staff had specially prepared for him in the hospital. After their phone call ended, he hastily dismissed the meeting early and even went out of his way to meet her. Eventually, he was greeted with this scene instead.

Although he initially wanted to step forward and help her, their quarrel ended before he could move. She also left the scene almost immediately.

Nevertheless, these were not the points that he had fixated upon. Instead, what bothered him the most were the words she uttered at the end. What did she mean? Why did she say that we’re even?

Those words sounded highly unsettling. They were also very puzzling to the ears.