To Be Yours Again novel (Alec and Jenny) novel Chapter 917

Jade hurriedly shook her head. "This has nothing to do with Jenny. It's my fault, really. I should've been more careful."

She only fell for Hayden's trap because she was desperate to prove to herself that she had surpassed him.

Max said nothing else. He didn't really blame Jenny; he was still upset, was all.

After checking to make sure Jade was really alright, Jenny suddenly felt like the third wheel in the room. Max's prickly expression and persistent weird looks at her affirmed her guess that he had planned to further "console" Jade.

Jenny chuckled dryly and said, "Get some rest then, Jade. You deserve it. I'll mark you down for leave for next week, so you don't need to come to work. I'll handle things with the police too. Don't you worry."

"But I'm fine—" Before Jade could argue, Jenny was already leaving the room with Alfred, shutting the door behind them.

Now it was just her and Max again.

Things seemed normal earlier when Jade was still in need of safety, but now that she'd recovered some, she realized how inappropriate things had been.

She cleared her throat awkwardly. "Thank you."

"What for?"

"Saving me in time. I don't know what would've happened if…"

Max gave her an exhausted look. "Why didn't you leave the moment you saw him?"

If Jade had left at first instance when Hayden showed up, she'd never have been drugged and dragged all the way here. Her lack of self-preservation was really concerning to Max. It even made him wonder if she was still into Hayden.