Such a Rude and Noisy Woman novel Chapter 217

"Hiram, you really want me to do such a test?" Shirley couldn't believe what she was hearing. She'd never thought that Hiram would treat her like some cheap girl. On top of that, she was astonished that Hiram was still in his senses.

Hiram left the room without saying another word or glancing at her.

Hearst followed Hiram out of the room and tried to calm him down. "Why are you going so far, dear brother? What happened is normal. Which man can sleep with just one woman for his entire life? I believe Rachel won't say a word about it. It's not your fault, after all."

Standing on the deck, Hiram tried to sober up. He looked up at the dark heavens above, where even the stars had gone home to rest.

"Things like this must be cleared up right away. Otherwise, suspicion would sprout like a seed and slowly grow into a big tree. That's the last thing I want between Rachel and me," he said.

Besides, he had never slept with any woman before Rachel. He wasn't going to let his reputation be ruined by a woman like Shirley.

He knew he had already let Rachel down many times. He couldn't afford to lose his physical loyalty to her, too.

Inside the room, Rachel stared at Shirley, who was still lost in her thoughts, and sneered," Tell me, Shirley, why did you come to the party with Susan even though your best friend, Lydia, isn't here?"

"Why? No particular reason! I was bored and I knew I could have a lot of fun here," Shirley replied, not meeting Rachel's eyes.

"Really? Because the moment I saw you, I had a feeling that you were up to something. Firstly, you brought Hearst to my room. Then, I found you sleeping in this room with Hiram. Do you really think I'm going to take all this as a coincidence?" spat Rachel.

She realized that she had to look at Shirley with new eyes now.

She used to think that although Shirley had a glib tongue, she wouldn't do anything bad. But it seemed that what Shirley was capable of was far beyond her imagination. She had to treat Shirley the same way she did to Lydia.

No wonder they were close to each other. Birds of a feather flock together.

"What are you talking about? You're good at cooking up stories, aren't you? Wait, did I hear you right? Did you say you were with Hearst in your room? Then what happened between you two? The same thing as Hiram and me?" Shirley exclaimed, as if she knew nothing about it.

Rachel laughed, turned around and made her way to the door. "Do you know you are a good actress? But things aren't going the way you want them to go."

The cruise was pulling in to shore, but Shirley refused to get off the ship.

She screamed at the top of her voice, and more and more people came onto the deck to see what was happening.

"Why do you scream like that in the middle of the night, Shirley? Why aren't you sleeping in your room?" Joanna asked as she approached. After hearing the noise, she'd thrown on a coat and come out to find Shirley crying on the deck.

"Auntie Joanna, please say something for me!" Shirley ran to Joanna the moment she saw her and held her hands, crying harder and louder.

Later, in the living room of the Rong House, seeing Shirley sob continuously, Joanna shook her head. Weird things kept happening one after another recently. Were the people around her bewitched?

"You're saying Hiram was so drunk that he thought you were Rachel?" asked Joanna.

Shirley nodded, wiping the tears off her cheeks, secretly glad that Rachel wasn't there with them. She said reluctantly," Yes, I wish it had never happened. I told him who I was, but he was too drunk to listen to me. Then, then..." She took a quick glance at Hiram, who was sitting on the couch opposite her.

"But, Shirley, may I ask something? Even if Hiram had been that drunk, you were supposed to be sleeping in your own room, right? Why did you show up in Hearst's room?" Joanna asked logically.

The truth was, Joanna didn't believe Shirley. She knew her son well and she didn't believe that Hiram would ever sleep around with women casually like Hearst did.

Hearst was a playboy who never stopped hanging out with women.

But she knew her son, Hiram, had always led a clean life. Of course there were rumors going around about him and women she'd never heard of before, but she knew for sure that he'd never done anything bad to them.

"I... I couldn't sleep, so I was taking a walk. I saw, I saw Hearst entering Rachel's room. A few minutes later, I ran into Hiram, and I wanted to tell him about what I had seen. But he didn't listen to me, he just dragged me inside and..."

Shirley lowered her head, unable to go on.

Joanna was confused. "Hold on, what are you talking about? You said you saw Hearst going into Rachel's room?"