She had been forced to stay there and couldn't even leave without paying. She'd stood there, calling her family frantically, but no one answered.
Thinking of that, Sherry had quit her job to repay him, and she had genuinely worried about his health.
She hadn't been sure her small salary could support both of them, especially with him sick.
She'd never expected that sacrifice to become a weapon used against her.
But in the end, she could at least say they'd owed each other nothing.
To go back to Gilbert now, to watch him flirt with other women every day, then be told she was crazy or overthinking...
It would slowly destroy her.
She'd have to beg him for money just to live. The thought terrified her.
"So he really just got tired of you?" Yelena's hands tightened into fists.
"Once someone's heart changes, everything you do annoys them. And then there was the first love obsession. It just proves he never really let her go. He just married me because he couldn't have her."
That was the worst part. If he'd been honest from the start, she never would have married him.
But once the other woman came back, he ran straight back to her like a lost puppy.
"Sherry! Pull over now and apologize to Julia!" George was screaming like a madman, pounding on his steering wheel.
Yelena stared in disbelief. "Is he insane? I can read his lips—he wants you to apologize? For what?"
Sherry didn't say a word. She rolled down her window, slowly lifted her middle finger, then rolled the window back up.
On the other side, the group looked like they were about to explode.
Julia's face turned green with rage.
"That depends on what Julia cooks up."
"They actually believe her lies?" Yelena said, shocked. "Don't they check security cameras or anything?"
"First, they won't even look. Second, even if they did, they'd make up excuses. People who don't want to believe the truth never will," Lucas said calmly.
Yelena stared at him, surprised.
"I've never heard a man say that before. Why do they act like this?"
"They want everything," Lucas said, summing up Gilbert perfectly.
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