The Day I Quit Him (Autumn and Mars) novel Chapter 33

Chapter 33

Autumn’s expression turned cold.

“Watch your mouth, Mars!”

“What’s wrong with you? Snapping at me like a rabid dog?”

Mars flew into a rage. “You dare talk back to me? Autumn, who’s the bastard in there with you? Don’t even try to lie. All I have to do is ask around the hospital to find out who visited you. You think you can hide it from

me?”

“Can’t even behave yourself in a hospital bed. What, you think I’m an idiot?”

Owen was sitting just a short distance from Autumn. Even though her phone wasn’t on speaker, Mars’s enraged voice was several times louder than normal, practically booming like a megaphone. In the quiet hospital room, you could even hear a slight echo.

Autumn didn’t dare to look at Owen’s expression.

Mars’s insane rant was so humiliating she couldn’t even lift her head.

What did I ever see in him? she couldn’t help but wonder.

I had so many guys after me back then. Why did I have to pick a man like this?

“Say something!”

When Autumn didn’t immediately explain, Mars’s fury only intensified. He sneered, his voice a low growl. “Cat got your tongue, Autumn? Caught you red–handed and now you have nothing to say, huh?”

“How could you do this to me?”

Autumn wasn’t sure if she’d wronged anyone in her life.

But she had absolutely not wronged Mars.

He was the last person on earth who had any right to say that.

He was the one who had messed up in their relationship.

How dare he question her with such self–righteous fury?

“Mars, you should really think before you speak. You hear a man’s voice on my end and you immediately assume I’m cheating on you? What is it with you, do you have some kind of cuckold kink? Why are you always so eager to imagine yourself being cheated on? Or is it that you’re just so familiar with this kind of thing that

all it takes is a voice to know for sure? Speaking from experience, are we?”

Mars’s heart skipped a beat.

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For a split second, he even thought Autumn knew something

But then he dismissed the idea. Impossible.

With Autumn’s temper, there was no way she could keep quiet if she actually knew.

She’d raise all kinds of hell.

Besides, the person he was involved with was none other than Autumn’s beloved stepsister.

Autumn would never let that go. Both the Lopez and Wright families would know no peace.

The thought helped him compose himself.

The panic simmering beneath the surface quickly extinguished his anger.

“Then tell me, why is there a man there with you?”

Mars’s tone was tinged with a jealousy he didn’t even notice himself. “What time is it, anyway? Visiting hours

are over, aren’t they?”

“He’s here to bring me dinner.”

“My husband is as good as dead, leaving his pregnant wife in the hospital without a single thought for her meals. Am I not even allowed to have someone bring me food?”

Mars had no comeback for that.

“Ahem, I’ve just been busy, I forgot, okay? Besides, I brought you breakfast before and you got mad. I thought you didn’t like what I made.”

Autumn mercilessly exposed his lie. “Mars, do you think I’m blind? You obviously bought that breakfast. How dare you say you made it?”

“How did you know?” Mars shot back, then immediately realized he’d given himself away. He was speechless for a few seconds before saying, “Ugh, fine, whatever. It’s not a big deal.”

“Look, I was just angry, so I said some things I didn’t mean. I’m sorry, okay? But Eastville’s project… don’t you think you owe me an explanation for that?”

“I was tricked, too.”

Autumn went along with his change of subject, moving past the cheating accusation.

Not wanting to argue with him anymore, she just said she’d actually secured the Eastville project for someone else and sold it right after the transfer went through.

“Sold it?”

Mars’s eyes went wide. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

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“Weren’t you really bullish on that project? Why would you sell it? Autumn, when did you become so short–sighted? And you call yourself an executive secretary?”

Autumn’s retort was sharp and sarcastic. “If you really trusted me so much, why were you dead set against it

when I told you to focus on the Eastville project in the first place?”

“Now that you see it could have made you money, you’re coming to me and throwing a fit?”

“What do you think I am, a psychic who can predict the future?”

“Investing is inherently risky. I gave you the chance, you didn’t take it, and now you’re blaming me?”

Mars was berated into silence.

He knew calling her to cause trouble was just him being unreasonable.

But the opportunity had been a rare one.

More importantly, he’d been dying to get on good terms with the city officials.

To think that chance had once been within his grasp, only to slip through his fingers.

It was like having a treasure map sitting in a dusty corner of your house. Someone tells you it’s important,

but you don’t pay any attention.

Then, when someone else wants it, you hand it over without a second thought, maybe even feeling smug

about getting rid of some useless junk.

And then you find out they used that ‘useless‘ map to find the real treasure.

The more Mars thought about it, the more he regretted it. “So… can you get the project back?”

Autumn knew Mars was shameless, but she hadn’t realized he could be this shameless.

“You get it back.”

Mars went silent.

He was obsessed with his public image; he’d never dare do something like go back on his word. If word got out, the reputation he had carefully cultivated for years would come crashing down.

His original plan was to have Autumn do it.

He would reap the benefits, and she would take the blame.

But the Autumn who used to do anything for him didn’t seem so easy to fool anymore.

Mars was pissed, but he remembered he was the one who started the fight. Autumn was probably still

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