After the divorce he begged novel Chapter 159

Chapter 159

“Hold on,” Samuel called out.

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Jeffrey didn’t hang up. He sounded way more relaxed now that Samuel was healthy again. “Let’s talk about it when we get back tomorrow, Your mom and I have an early flight.”

He hung up right after he finished, not waiting for any reply.

Instead of knocking on Rebecca’s door right away, he waited a minute, watching his screen. When Samuel didn’t text back, he figured Samuel had bought his story.

He stuffed his phone in his pocket and made his way to Rebecca’s room.

He knocked twice on the door. Rebecca didn’t answer.

Rebecca stood before the floor–to–ceiling window, her gaze lost in the cityscape and the relentless flow of traffic below. A heavy, suffocating cloud of despair pressed down on her. Her mind drifted into a sea of uncertainty about what came next.

The lock clicked, and Jeffrey pushed the door open. “Why didn’t you answer?” his low voice rumbled.

Rebecca didn’t even turn from the window, her voice flat. “It’s not like a locked door ever stops you.”

Jeffrey came up behind her. He slid his arms around her waist, pulling her back firmly against his chest. “Don’t punish yourself for someone else’s mistakes. Anger only hurts you.”“

Rebecca just kept gazing out the window, her expression cynical. He always has to have the last word, she thought.

“Once we’re back in Jelasburg, you can punish me any way you see fit. I’ll accept it all. Jeffrey murmured, his large hand enveloping hers. “But for now, let’s just get washed up and go to sleep, alright?”

Rebecca didn’t trust a single word coming out of his mouth.

He had promised anything now, but if she told him to sleep in another room or leave her alone, he would suddenly have a thousand reasons why that punishment was bad for their marriage.

He was all talk. When it came down to it, he was full of excuses, always finding a way to weasel out of what she

wanted.

Tll take your silence as a yes, Jeffrey said, gently turning her to face him.

Rebecca said, instinctively taking a slight step forward. But his hold was firm yet gentle, an inescapable anchor. “You go ahead if you need to.”

“Alright,” Jeffrey replied, letting her go. He turned and headed for the bathroom, not worrying that Rebecca might try to leave.

As the sound of running water filled the room, Rebecca stayed by the window, her mind racing through

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everything that had happened that night.

Knowing Samuel was safe finally helped Rebecca calm down, but the more she replayed everything in her mind, the more she sensed something was off. Tonight’s whole mess just wasn’t Jeffrey’s style at all.

A man like him never needed to leverage his son. If he truly wanted to keep her from leaving, he had a dozen other, more effective ways to do it without ever crossing that line.

She was nostalgic by nature, he knew there were countless pressure points he could exploit. But the footage in that video looked undeniably real.

As she mulled it over a doubt clicked into place. Hearing the shower still running, she walked to the bedside table, picked up Jeffrey’s phone, and typed in the password. It was still her birthday, He hadn’t changed it.

She scrolled through his WhatsApp messages and call logs, but nothing seemed out of place.

Knowing how meticulous Jeffrey was, Rebecca suspected he might have deleted something. She opened Timothy’s chat and sent a message: [If Rebecca asks about what happened tonight, just tell her the truth. No need to hide anything.)

Once she was sure everything was as it should be, she hit send.

Rebecca knew she was being foolish. Even after all that had happened, she still trusted him.

But a voice in the back of her head insisted that Jeffrey just wasn’t that type of guy. No matter what he wanted, no matter how desperate he was, he would never play games with Samuel’s life.

Finally, the water in the bathroom came to a stop. In a flash, Rebecca deleted the message she’d just sent to Timothy and slipped Jeffrey’s phone back to its original spot.

The notification sound echoed through the room. Jeffrey’s phone screen lit up with a new message.

Rebecca shot a glance at the still–closed bathroom door. Fighting down a surge of panic, she snatched the phone back up, her fingers flying across the screen to unlock it and read the new message.

Creak. The bathroom door swung open.

Rebecca opened WhatsApp, ready to delete any texts from Timothy in case he saw them. But if Jeffrey caught her using his phone, she would deal with it.

But instead, what popped up at the top of the screen was a message from Andrea: Jeffrey, are you still awake? I’m feeling a bit unwell.]

Rebecca’s fingers tightened unconsciously around the phone as her eyes locked onto the message. She was just about to put the phone back when it was suddenly snatched from her hand.

Jeffrey snatched the phone from her. “So, you’re checking through my messages. Should I take that as you kinda want to get back together?”

“In

your dreams,” Rebecca shot back, striding straight to the couch and flopping down. She whipped out her own phone and immediately texted Timothy herself, demanding to know what had happened tonight.

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She just wanted Timothy to reply to her first. As long as Timothy answered her first, she didn’t care if Jeffrey

found out afterward.

Jeffrey was drying his still–dripping hair with one hand, scrolling through his phone with the other. His thumb paused when he saw Andrea’s message, and his eyes flicked instinctively toward Rebecca, who curled up on the couch

He typed back a reply: [I’ll have the family doctor come check on you.]

Andrea: [Okay.]

He wasted no time making the arrangements.

Just as he was about to lock his phone and go talk to Rebecca, a thought occurred to him.

Someone like Rebecca wouldn’t be rifling through his phone just because she was angry with him. She must have been looking for something connected to the reason she was upset–something to do with Samuel.

His gaze lingered on her, his mind racing.

Buzz, buzz. Rebecca’s phone vibrated.

She snatched it up, thumb flying to unlock it as if desperately searching for confirmation.

“Don’t mess with your phone so much at night, Jeffrey said, grabbing it out of her hand. “It’s bad for your

eyes.

“Give it back.” Rebecca instantly reached out to snatch it from him.

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