A Man with Nerves of Steel (Joseph Hart) novel Chapter 132

Chapter 132

That night, Cora found their intimacy just as satisfying and intense as it had always been. By the next morning, however, the warmth had vanished; Joseph had already left the villa, not even bothering to say goodbye.

When Cora asked Ella about him, she learned that Joseph barely spoke to Ella at all, only telling her to do the laundry.

After thinking for a moment, she sent him a message.

“You were gone when I woke up. Where did you run off to?”

“What’s up?”

“You didn’t get back until the middle of the night last night, and now you’re leaving first thing in the morning. It’s been like this for a while now. Are you treating this house as a hotel? Honey, you need to put more effort and time into this family.”

“You’ve been busy just like this for over ten years. I know you’ll say you’re doing it for the family, and I won’t deny that. I’m almost at the hospital. We can talk tonight.”

Joseph’s unwillingness to talk left Cora with a dull, suffocating feeling inside. She loved being pampered by Joseph, but ever since he started suspecting Natalie wasn’t his, he hadn’t shown her that affection anymore.

She asked Fiona to come pick her up on her way to work.

“Fiona, how’s the investigation going?”

“Marla went to Horba and then vanished without a trace. The people I sent still haven’t found her. As for Sharon, everything seems to be normal. Same with Nat,” Fiona quickly reported, though she felt uneasy inside.

It had been days, and aside from rehashing Joseph’s old findings about Marla, she had made no real progress.

Cora’s expression remained calm and unfathomable, a clear sign of dissatisfaction with Fiona’s work. Pushing her luck, Fiona said, “Cora, actually, this whole thing started because of Joseph. He’s the one who set everything in motion.

“If he stays quiet, the situation stays stagnant. So, I think we should provoke him a bit. Only if he starts making waves can we get this stalled investigation moving again.”

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