Clara's face that had just eased a little now turned serious again. What did Laura mean?
Laura didn't seem to notice that Clara, who was beside her, had turned cold. She continued, "Horace used to worry that I would be bored at home and that I would go out alone, so he often went shopping with me."
"By the way, Clara, where do you guys often go? Will you take me with you later? I haven't come back for so many years and I almost forget what this city looks like."
Hearing her words, Clara's eyes flashed with disappointment and she replied casually, "Horace is very busy. He has a lot of things to deal with on business and we rarely come out."
"What? He doesn't come out with you?" Laura looked surprised, "He actually treats you like this. He used to make time to spend with his girlfriend but now he doesn't have time to spend with his wife? What's more important than you? But don't worry, I'll teach him a lesson later."
Laura looked indignant, her tone was full of schadenfreude, and she looked at Clara with ridicule.
Even if Clara was a fool, she would know what she meant by this point. She did not invite herself to go shopping but to show off the deep affection between them in the past.
"No need, he treats me very well." Still not good at quarreling openly, Clara replied calmly to her with a cold tone.
"Really?" Laura looked at Clara suspiciously and asked strangely, obviously not believing what she said. "You don't have to deceive yourself. Although he treats me... But don't worry, I won't step in between you two."
Clara was about to go mad. What did Horace do to her? Was Laura suggesting that Horace still had feelings for her?
Clara was really exhausted today. She shouldn't have come out. She found herself such an idiot that she had trusted Laura again.
Clara wanted to storm away, but her personality did not allow her to do such a thing. Just when she was thinking of an excuse to leave, she received a text message from her phone in her bag.
She took out the phone and looked at it. It was a text message from the mobile customer service notifying her that her credit balance was insufficient.
After thinking about it, Clara said to Laura, "I just received a notice from the magazine that I need to go back and deal with an emergency, so I'll go first."
After speaking, Clara picked up her bag and stood up, ready to leave.
"Don't," Laura saw Clara leave, stood up, and took two steps, grabbing her arm. "We finally have some time to hang out together. What is so urgent? How about I call your editor-in-chief and ask him to give you a day off? I think he would do me this favor."
Clara broke from her hands and stood there. She didn't know what to do for a while.
"Then, let me call my colleague first." Clara hesitated for a moment, then turned and walked two steps away, pretending to call her colleague.
Looking at her back not far away, Laura sneered with contempt. Such a clumsy lie, this woman is really stupid. She didn't know what Horace sees her in the first place.
After several minutes, Clara came back, "Let's go."
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