552: Chapter 551: I Can’t Stand Being Ignored by Her 552: Chapter 551: I Can’t Stand Being Ignored by Her “Ashton…”
A trembling voice sounded.
Joanna Lawrence turned her head and saw Rebecca Kelloway’s eyes reddened, looking very aggrieved and sad, her tear-filled eyes staring at Ashton Heath.
She spoke, choking back tears: “Are you still mad at ?
I know it was my fault that day, I shouldn’t have said those hurtful words to humiliate Joanna’s brother before knowing the whole truth.”
“I know I was wrong.”
“I’m willing to apologize to Joanna, just as long as you forgive , I’ll do anything.”
“But, please don’t treat like this, I really can’t take it.”
Ashton Heath turned his head and looked at her pitiful and submissive appearance, his face expressionless and his voice cold as he said: “What are you doing here?
Didn’t I tell you that I don’t have ti to see you today?”
His cold attitude was a far cry from the tenderness and indulgence he showed towards Joanna just a mont ago.
When he looked at Joanna, his eyes were filled with tenderness, and his gaze was so focused and intense that it made one’s heart flutter.
But when he faced Rebecca, his eyes revealed only indifference and coldness.
There was even a hint of estrangent in his gaze.
His attitude almost broke Rebecca.
The tears that had been lingering at the corners of her eyes finally flowed down her cheeks.
She cried grievously, her eyes full of hurt: “Ashton, do you really have to be like this?
You said you have no ti to see , but as soon as you heard Joanna was here, you interrupted an important eting just to co and see her.”
“Is this what you call not having ti?”
“You have ti to see her but not ?
Is it really because you don’t have ti, or is it because you don’t want to see ?”
Joanna Lawrence: “…”
It seems that liking soone can indeed lower one’s intelligence.
Rebecca was quite an intelligent woman.
But she actually asked such an obvious question.
Did she want Ashton to say outright that he didn’t want to see her before she would be satisfied?
However, from what Ashton had just said, it seed that Rebecca had contacted him before coming to the Heath Group?
And then she was refused by him on the grounds that he had no ti?
Thinking about this, Joanna felt a hint of happiness deep in her heart.
Well, it seed she had a very conscientious husband.
Without her intervention, he had already cut off all the unwanted affections around him.
Even for Rebecca, an omnipresent figure in his life who had been there for more than twenty years, he didn’t hesitate to sever ties completely and decisively, without dragging his feet.
Although, as a married man, this was what he should do.
However, there weren’t many married n who could actively do this.
He was especially conscientious in this regard.
Just for this, Joanna felt he deserved a reward.
Ashton Heath still looked indifferent at the tearful and red-eyed Rebecca.
His voice was so cold and ruthless that even Joanna felt he was a bit too heartless: “Since you know I don’t want to see you, why did you co?”
He spoke coldly to Rebecca while his hand gently stroked Joanna’s hair: “Joanna is my wife, I have ti for her anyti.
Rebecca, I don’t think I need to tell you the difference between a friend and a wife.
There’s no need for you to compare yourself with Joanna, as you both hold different places in my heart.”
“And…” He ignored Rebecca’s increasingly pale face, and amidst her torrent of tears, he picked up a cup from the table, sipped water from the spot where Joanna’s lipstick mark remained, and continued: “In the future, don’t act like you know so well in front of my wife.
If she misunderstands, it will take a long ti to appease her.
Although I don’t mind appeasing her, I can’t stand being ignored by her when she’s angry.”
“I am obsessive about cleanliness, but no one is like that with their own wife.
Do you understand?”
The cup on the table was white.
Rebecca had noticed the lipstick mark on the rim earlier.
When she saw Ashton deliberately press his lips against the lipstick mark left by Joanna, she felt as if she had been slapped in the face several tis.
It seed as if she could hear the sound of slapping echoing in her ears.
She suddenly realized that Ashton had heard everything she and Joanna had said earlier.
He was showing with his actions that he didn’t mind at all.
Rebecca’s greatest advantage in front of Joanna was her more than twenty years of friendship with Ashton.
She and him were considered matching in social and economic status, childhood sweethearts.
They were also regarded as the perfect couple in the eyes of others.
Moreover, she was the only woman who had been able to get close to Ashton in the past twenty years.
Other than her, there were no other won in Ashton Heath’s circle of friends.
Even though he had never been particularly close to her, Rebecca was already very satisfied when compared to others.
No matter how he treated her, she surpassed all other won just by having this unique connection with him.
She always believed that no one knew Ashton Heath better than her.
And yet, his words had just denied her understanding of him altogether.
Whether he ant it or he said it deliberately to keep Joanna from misunderstanding, it didn’t make a difference to Rebecca.
Either way, it felt like a stab to her heart.
It was as if her heart had been slashed by a sharp blade, bleeding and aching.
She knew Ashton too well.
It was precisely because she understood him that she was now in so much pain.
He really did like Joanna.
He was so determined to protect her and not let her be wronged.
But did he know how deeply he was hurting her as he defended the woman beside him?
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