Restoring a Life After Seven Years of Wrong Love novel Chapter 3

He instinctively frowned, feeling somewhat unaccustomed to the darkness.

In the past, no matter how late it was, Yvette would always leave a light on for him.-

He reached out and flicked on the hallway switch.

Hearing the commotion, the housekeeper, Lena, stepped out of her room.

"Where is she?"

"Mrs. Shelby hasn't been home for the past few days," Lena said, carefully observing Jabez's expression as she spoke.

But his face remained blank, betraying zero emotion.

Jabez simply nodded. Too lazy to even take off his shoes, he headed straight upstairs toward the master bedroom. He pushed the door open and let his gaze sweep across the room.

He vaguely remembered seeing Yvette at the hospital—she was probably sick.

His phone rang. It was a call from Willow.

Jabez turned on his heel, walked back downstairs, started his car, and drove off.

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Two days later.

Yvette returned to the villa, and Lena hurried over to greet her.

"Ma'am, while you were away these past few days, Mr. Shelby came back once."

"And?" Yvette paused her steps.

"He asked me where you went. I told him you hadn't been home recently, and he didn't say anything else."

Yvette knew full well that Jabez never cared about what she was doing. It had been seven years. His attitude toward her had always been freezing cold. She was completely used to it by now.

"Okay."

Yvette went upstairs and changed into a white silk blouse and black tailored trousers. Looking at her somewhat pale reflection in the mirror, she applied some light makeup to bring color back to her face. She drove to the office.

"Ms. Yeats, you've been on leave so you wouldn't know." Ms. Zeller leaned in close and lowered her voice. "Mr. Shelby has been bringing his girlfriend, Ms. Huxley, to work with him for a solid week now. They come and go together, and the company executives have been falling all over themselves to kiss up to her. They're practically treating her like the future boss's wife. Right now, Mr. Shelby is in a meeting, so Ms. Huxley is in there alone."

Jabez's office was a place Yvette could only enter with express permission, yet its doors were open to Willow at all times.

And it was filled with highly sensitive corporate secrets. If anything leaked, the financial damage would be catastrophic.

Yvette suppressed the sharp, needle-like pain in her heart and joked lightly, "Really? Well, this is the perfect chance for you guys to show your faces to the future boss's wife. Why aren't you going?"

"I don't like her. I don't want to go," Ms. Zeller pouted.

"Fine, I'll do it." Yvette walked up to Jabez's office and knocked on the door.

"Come in," Willow's voice drifted from inside.

Yvette pushed the door open and walked in.

The next second, she completely froze in her tracks.

Even though she had mentally prepared herself to see Willow, she never expected to walk in on a scene like this...