I Choose Him, Your Worst Enemy novel Chapter 81

Chapter 81 Right Next Door

Wynette was still on the phone, placating a very chatty Joanne, when the doorbell rang.

She glanced at the time. Eleven fifty-five.

Who on earth would be stopping by this late?!

She carried her phone to the door and opened it.

The moment she saw Adriel standing on the other side, she turned back to the phone and said, “Something just came up. I’ll reach out tomorrow. Get some rest.”

She hung up before Joanne could say a single word back.

Wynette looked at Adriel with a puzzled expression. “What are you doing here?”

Adriel’s comment from earlier flashed through her mind, and she found her thoughts struggling to keep up.

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“I own a place around here,” Adriel said, unbothered and unhurried. “I’ve been staying in this area for a while now.”

That jogged something in Wynette’s memory. She was pretty sure Joanne had mentioned something like that once in passing.

But she hadn’t known where exactly Adriel had bought.

Wynette leaned out of the doorway without thinking and scanned the row of houses on either side.

She noticed that every other house had gone dark for the night, except the one directly to her left, which blazed with light.

A terrible thought crept into her mind. There was no way Adriel’s place in Graceview Estate was the house right next to hers. There was absolutely no way.

Then Adriel pointed directly at the house on the left. “That one’s mine. I had no idea my neighbor was you.”

Wynette stared at him in complete silence.

Adriel pointed at the mansion on the left. “It’s right next to your place. Can’t believe you’re my neighbor.”

Of all the ridiculous, impossible, absurd coincidences in the world, how could it possibly be this one?

She still remembered the day she first bought this place. The very first morning the renovation crew showed up, the house next door had started its own renovation on the exact same day.

She’d visited the site several times to check on the progress and had even stayed over occasionally, and not once had she run into whoever lived next door.

She’d assumed someone had bought it just to let it sit empty or rent it out.

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Chapter 81 Right Next Door

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Who in their right mind would have guessed that the owner was Adriel?

Without realizing it, she’d become next-door neighbors with Noah’s most notorious rival. Hardly anyone would believe it if word got out.

While Wynette was still reeling, Adriel spoke again. “I only realized we were neighbors the last time I drove Joanne back here.”

Really?

Is that actually true?

Wynette didn’t ask out loud. There was surely no way Adriel had bought a house here because of her.

She wasn’t that interesting.

“You came to talk about the news story?” she asked, steering the conversation somewhere else.

She thought it over. That was really the only thing it could be.

Adriel nodded. “Yeah. If my reply caused you any trouble, I’m sorry. I can take it down right now.

“When the story broke, I wanted to clear things up for you, but I didn’t think about how it might make things awkward for you.”

His voice carried a genuine weight of regret.

Wynette listened to his words and swallowed, her throat suddenly tight.

She actually wanted to ask him if he always made decisions this impulsively.

But the question never left her lips. She swallowed it back down.

She didn’t think Adriel was the scheming type. If anything, he’d probably just been worried and shot off that reply without thinking it through.

She smiled and waved it off. “It’s fine. That reply wasn’t really a problem. If anything, it might actually bring some good surprises to the company.”

The falling-out between the Jewells and the Shepherds had been the talk of the town for weeks.

Plenty of business partners had quietly started keeping their distance from the Jewells, even if none of them said so to her face.

But now, with Adriel’s reply sitting right there for everyone to see, some of them might be willing to work with Jewell Group just out of respect for him.

When she thought about it that way, Wynette felt like she’d come out ahead.

Adriel studied her expression with care, and once he was satisfied that she meant every word, the tension eased out of him. “Good. I was worried I’d made things harder for you.”

2:20 pm

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Why is she looking at me like that?

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