Chapter 156
Ashton was also confused. “He asked me about Elaine just now, and I admitted to it, as we had discussed
before. After that, he just left.”
Elyse immediately frowned, her eyebrows tightly knitted,
Her heart also began to thump wildly.
“What questions did he ask?” she asked anxiously.
Ashton relayed the questions as they were.
He had just finished speaking when Elyse trembled in anger, saying, “How can you be so stupid? If Leo asked you, that means he was just guessing. He wasn’t completely sure whether Elaine was someone we made up or not. By admitting it so easily, you’re confessing everything on your own!”
Elyse looked at the idiot of a man in front of her. If he didn’t have the Lowe Family backing him, she would have slapped him long ago.
Ashton had always thought he stood out and was better than everyone else.
When he heard Elyse’s words, his expression went stiff. He couldn’t explode in anger, so he could only say, “Even if I confessed to it, I would be the only one at fault. You don’t have to worry.”
“How can I not be worried?” Elyse felt annoyed when Ashton was still being ignorant. “Back then, we talked to Leo together. Do you think that Leo, with his intelligence, wouldn’t be able to figure out that I was involved as well?”
She had discreetly told Ashton to take the blame before, but that was just in case of emergencies. She didn’t think he would admit to it so quickly and reveal everything on his own accord!
It was only then that Ashton realized his mistake. He scratched his head in regret, then felt a little mad as he said, “How dare Leo play tricks on me! Geez!”
Elyse glared at him in disgust.
Nothing was going right tonight, and now that Ashton had exposed the matter with Elaine on his own, Leo would hate Elyse even more.
Was their breakup truly set in stone?
Extremely annoyed, she was no longer in the mood to entertain Ashton. She turned around and got into the
car.
Elyse was still too irked to check the screen, so she tossed her phone aside.
She rested her hand on her forehead as she leaned against the window, closing her eyes and staying silent.
Behind the wheel, Ashton had been quiet all this while. When he noticed she wasn’t answering the phone, he turned around and took the phone to take a glance. “It’s a call from Mrs. Alston. Are you sure you’re not going
to pick it up?”
It was only then that Elyse opened her eyes. There was a look of surprise in her eyes as she glanced at the
screen.
She proceeded to take the phone and place it beside her ear. “Hello?”
“Elyse, I spotted you just now. Did you come to the Alston Residence?” On the other end of the line, Melissa’s voice was filled with a natural sense of superiority. She spoke in a high-and-mighty tone even when she was
talking to Elyse.
Elyse hated it when Melissa spoke in that tone, especially now that Leo was breaking up with her and cruelly exposing her.
She was about to say something rude when she remembered that Ashton was still around. She said in a roundabout way, “I did have a quick chat with Leo outside the house.”
Melissa skipped the nonsense and said, “Wait for me at a spot 2 miles away from the Alston Residence. Let’s
meet up.
Elyse didn’t know why Melissa wanted to see her.
Remembering that Melissa was never friendly to her, she was about to decline coldly when Melissa continued, “I want to make a deal with you.”
With that, she hung up without waiting for Elyse’s response.
Elyse’s dull eyes shimmered a little. In the end, she told Ashton to pull up at the spot Melissa spoke of.
“Park the car a mile away, and don’t come here unless I call for you,” she ordered coldly after getting out of the
car.
Ashton looked at her in worry. “It’s not safe for you to be here alone. Let me accompany you.
“No need!”
Her expression was cold and stubborn.
Since Melissa wanted to talk to her, the topic must be something outsiders were not allowed to hear.
Ashton looked at her for a while. When he thought about the mistake he committed that night, he scratched
his head.
In the end, he still left like he was told to.
Elyse waited by the road for a few minutes before the Alston Family’s car slowly drove up to her.
The driver got out of the car first.
Then, he jogged to the back seat and respectfully opened the door.
Melissa was dressed meticulously, just like a queen.
She held her bag with both hands and got out of the car in the most elegant way possible.
The only thing lacking was that she had no worshippers.
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A few years ago, Elyse was treated coldly by Melissa, so she didn’t have much of a good impression of the
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