Jane was grinding her teeth in consternation.
Beside her, Jacelyn was clinging intimately to Danny’s arm while sizing Jane up at the same time.
Truth be told, when she saw the gorgeous Jane
emerging from that fancy car, Jacelyn was immediately overcome with envy.
What’s more,
Jane herself hadn’t spared her so much as a single glance, and Jacelyn was not pleased
by
that one bit.
Having
heard something interesting, she whispered to Danny and Luke, “Goodness me,
that Jane really gets around! She’s
got powerful friends, buys an expensive car like it’s nothing… but does she
have someone special? Perhaps, rather
than those big tycoons, she might have picked up some
new toy boy!”
Smack!
The moment
Jacelyn said that…
Jane
slapped her right across the face. “You’d better watch your mouth. What’s this
‘toy boy’ nonsense?”
“Did you just… slap me?!”
Jacelyn held her face, quite
nearly slapped senseless.
Jane seemed ready to
strike her again.
However,
Luke caught her hand. “Jane, dear, tell us if there’s any truth to Jacelyn’s
words. Have you gotten yourself
a pet lately?” He seemed
genuinely nervous about this.
“Let
go of me, Luke! What business of yours is it, whomever I like?” At this point,
Jane sorely wished she’d stayed in
the car. Even if Luke had caught sight of her, all she’d had to do was step on
the gas and make a break for it.
Now, there was all this
talk about tycoons and toy boys… She had gone through so much
trouble to
improve her image with Gerald, and now, all that
had gone to waste!
But the more she
behaved this way, the more
Luke feared it might be true.
D*mn it, how
much money had he spent on this girl already? And to
think she’d been keeping
a little
something for herself
on the side?!
Gerald sat in the car, listening to them
squabble.
There wasn’t
much to be said.
Jane loved money. Gerald had known that all along.
Once a hostess at some hot springs
resort up in the mountains, she now held an executive position.
There was no
way she wouldn’t have some dirty
little secrets here and there.
At the moment though, Gerald would much rather
for Jane to just drive away right now. Suddenly, a shadow
loomed beside him as someone
appeared by his side.
It was Jacelyn.
After the slap she had taken, she was anxious
to see if there was any swelling. If so, there would be hell to pay.
As such, she turned her head this way and that
in front of the passenger-side window. She even pouted a little to see if her cutesy charms had been diminished in
any way.
Good, still cute!
Jacelyn nodded contentedly. Then, a shiver
of alarm ran through
her.
Through the glass, she had noticed the vague
outline of another person. A man. How
scandalous!
Right now, nothing else could have mattered
more.
She
smirked at Jane, and said to Luke, “It’s true, Luke! There’s another man she’s
been seeing, and he’s in the passenger
seat of her car right now, too scared
to step out into the light!”
It was as though Jacelyn
had happened upon a whole new
world of wonder.
Compared to Danny, Luke came from an even more
well-off family. They were very influential around these parts, too.
Jane was about
to receive her reckoning. Served
her right! Feel the pain!
“What?!” Hearing
this, Luke and Danny both peered into the passenger seat. Because the windows were
tinted, neither had paid much attention at
first nor noticed anything. Upon closer examination, there was
indeed someone inside there.
Unbeknownst to them, Gerald was already
belting out wall-to-wall expletives! For
crying out loud! Now he was getting
caught up in all this mess?!