John sat in the chair beside Pamela. “Why don’t you take your health seriously?”
“I do.”
Pamela felt like she had been treated unfairly. Before it happened, she had checked the area and made sure there were no cameras.
“I just wanted to see you so much that I didn’t notice the car coming. That was why the accident happened. If you don’t believe me, you can ask Nora.”
John fixed his dark gaze on her, his eyes completely cold.
Pamela felt uneasy, but her face stayed calm. “It’s true!”
“I don’t like lies.” John’s voice was cool. It was the first time he had ever spoken to her this seriously. “I dislike deception even more.”
“I didn’t lie!” Pamela said as she lowered her head, certain John was only trying to trick her. “I know calling you at that time makes it look like I did it on purpose, but I really wasn’t trying to trick you.”
The air around John instantly grew heavy.
Pamela had never seen him like this. She carefully went over every detail from that moment in her mind. Only after she was sure there was absolutely no surveillance did she go on.
“You don’t trust me?”
John shifted his emotionless gaze toward Robin. Robin immediately took out his phone, which held the complete video. He opened it and handed it to Pamela.
“What’s this?” Pamela asked, uncertain.
John’s eyes were frosty, his tone indifferent. “The evidence.”
Pamela’s hand immediately went still. Her heart thumped uneasily in her chest. She held her breath and looked at the phone.
One scene after another appeared in her eyes, tearing apart the plan she had thought was perfect. The video was cut together from several different dash cams, and every angle showed what had happened clearly.
Pamela’s hands and feet turned cold. The fear and panic in her heart drowned out the pain from her injury.
“John, I…”
She had no way to defend herself.
No matter what she said, it would all sound like an excuse.
“I know what you were thinking.” John looked at her like he was looking at a stranger. “When choosing to deal with a car accident and an outing with a child, you thought most people would choose the accident first.”
“That wasn’t it…” Pamela’s thoughts were in complete chaos.
John pressed his lips; his perfect features were utterly indifferent, and the air around was frosty.
A trace of worry flashed in Robin’s eyes when he looked at John like this. He feared John would go back to the way
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he had been before he was with Sierra.
Back then, John had looked almost the same on the surface, but Robin knew that John held no feelings at all. He had only slowly started to show some warmth after marrying Sierra.
“I just couldn’t think things through for the moment,” Pamela went on.
Unable to bear the suffocating pressure, she decided to sell some half–truths. /
“I don’t know what’s wrong with me lately. My mood has been terrible. Whenever something upsets me, I start thinking about doing something stupid…”
John didn’t hear the rest as sharp voices rang in his mind.
“Will you only be happy when you’ve killed me?!”
“Didn’t I tell you that your mother has depression and anxiety? Stop giving her things to worry about!”
“John, can you grow up a little?!”
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