He Lost Me to His Best Friend novel Chapter 243

The rest of the sentence died in his throat.

Scarlett whipped around, her eyes bloodshot and blazing with an icy fury, as if she were ready to tear him apart on the spot.

Yardley went rigid. Every defense he had lodged in his chest, ultimately twisting into a bitterly agonizing smile on his face.

Scarlett glared at him in utter disbelief, her voice trembling from sheer rage. "What... did you just say?"

Before he could open his mouth, she had grabbed him by the collar.

"Are you questioning Dawn's paternity?" She let out a cold laugh. "Yardley, do you honestly think that just because your cousin is a filthy, despicable mess, I must be the same?"

She fought back the stinging tears welling in her eyes. The wounds that had long scabbed over were now being violently ripped open, bleeding fresh.

It was agonizing. She wished she could take a knife and stab it straight through his chest right then and there.

It was an absolute character assassination. This was the most vicious, degrading insult one could throw at a woman.

How heartless, how thoroughly ignorant of who she was did Yardley have to be to spit out something so humiliating?

"I... I didn't mean it like that, Scarlett," Yardley rasped, his voice dry. "It's just that you're so cold to me, but with Julian, you're so... It makes me wonder if you two have known each other all along."

She stared into his eyes, her gaze like twin daggers sinking deep into his flesh.

Her chest heaved violently as she gasped for air, trying to suppress the suffocating feeling that threatened to rip her apart.

"Yardley, if you were half a man, you would never ask such a shameful question!"

Julian's eyes instantly went red, glaring back at him. "Yardley, what you did wasn't taking care of them. It was crossing the line!"

"And what about you now?" Yardley roared. "Haven't you crossed the line? What exactly are you to Scarlett? Don't forget, she is my wife!"

Julian was livid. "My care for Scarlett is based on the fact that we are colleagues, partners, and... because I was entrusted to do so. I have known exactly what I was doing from start to finish. I don't believe for a second that I have ever stepped out of bounds."

"But what about you? Just how far did your 'care' for Sylvia go? During her entire postpartum recovery period, you barely stepped foot outside that facility! You were even in the delivery room when she gave birth!"

"Do I need to spell out the rest of the details for you? Yardley, it's not like I don't have evidence!"

Yardley was utterly enraged. He pulled out his phone, pulled up the video Sylvia had sent him, and shoved it directly into Julian's face.

"Evidence? You think I don't have any? You accompanied Scarlett shopping at a baby boutique—is that not intimate enough? Julian, you know damn well what your intentions are toward her!"