Love After Marriage: Mr. Lancaster's Hidden Wife

Chapter 222 I Don't Trust You

"Am I being unreasonable?” Henry frowned.

Yvonne took a deep breath. "Yes. For me, what you did just now was unreasonable."

Henry was infuriated by what she said. He pursed his thin lips coldly. "Yvonne, you said that I was being unreasonable. Is it wrong for me to protect my own wife? Is it right if I let my wife be touched by other men?"

Yvonne noticed that he was angry now. She became anxious. "That’s not what I meant. I just feel that you overreacted just now. You don't want other men to touch me. I understand that. But it’s just a trivial affair given the kind of physical contact I had with Shane just now. Why did you have to..."

"A trivial affair?" Henry's voice became cold. "Yvonne, do you think that it was a trivial affair?"

"Isn't it? He just patted my head with a folder. He didn’t even use his hand. Why do you have to care so much about that?" Yvonne said.

Henry was completely infuriated by her now. He was soon engulfed in deep coldness. "Why did I care so much about that? Yvonne, don't forget that you’re my wife. As my wife, is it considered normal if you’re fooling around with the other men?" "What do you mean by that?" Yvonne clenched her fists tightly. Her voice became louder too. "So for you, I was fooling around with Shane just now. Then how about you and Jacqueline? Didn't you act more intimately with her?"

"Jacqueline and I?" Henry was stunned.

Yvonne closed her eyes, forcing herself to stay calm." Yes. You and Jacqueline hugged each other, and your relationship with her was quite intimate. Did I say anything about that? No, I didn’t. I endured everything and suffered in silence. But what did you do? You threw your double standard on me. Don't you think that it's rather ridiculous?”

Henry moved his thin lips slightly. He said hoarsely, "I don't have double standards." 1

"Didn't you have that?" Yvonne laughed sarcastically." How could you say that you didn't? At first, you were i n a complicated relationship with Jacqueline, and you asked me to stay away from other men. Isn’t that a double standard?"

Talking about that, she stretched her hand out and pointed at his chest. "Besides, you’ve always been a dominant and mighty man. You never allow anybody t o resist you. You asked me to stay away from other men, and I did that. I even deleted Shane's contact number once. But how about you? Did you do that?"

Hearing that, Henry’s facial expression darkened. At that moment, he found himself unable to answer her questions.

In fact, Yvonne expected him to act like that. She looked up at the ceiling as if she wanted to force back her tears.

After a few seconds, she heaved a heavy sigh before continuing, "You can't seem to answer that, right? It's normal even if you can't answer that. It's because you were unable to do that. During our marriage, you acted intimately with your ex-girlfriend. It's a wrong deed. It could even be considered as a morally wrong act."

"I admit that it was indeed my fault by being too close with Jackie during our marriage. But what does it have anything to do with morality?" Henry frowned, and he was slightly annoyed.

Yvonne sneered. "You still refuse to believe it. Fine, let me ask you this. If Shane has a girlfriend, will you be too close with her?"

"Of course not." Henry gave his reply immediately without any hesitation.

"See, even you said that you won't. But why did you commit such a mistake with Jacqueline?" Yvonne looked at him in contempt. "You were a couple before. But you’re married now. Have you ever seen any man having a complicated relationship with his exgirlfriend after he got married? Besides, Jacqueline knew it perfectly well. But she still came after you, refusing to let you go. Tell me. Doesn’t it have everything to do with morality?"

Henry became speechless after listening to what

Yvonne said. He could not even retort to her.

It was because what she said was true.

A normal person who had good manners would never have any kind of contact with his exes if he had another lover now.

Moreover, both he and Jacqueline made such a mistake like that.

"I'm sorry. Regarding this..."

"You don’t have to say anything anymore." Yvonne waved her hand weakly and interrupted Henry. "I'm exhausted and desperate. I don't want to hear it no matter how much you're going to say. I just know that you're incapable of ceasing contact with your exgirlfriend. How could you even demand me to not have any kind of contact with other men? Moreover, there's nothing between me and them. But you’re different, so..."

"So what?" Henry fixed his gaze at her.

Yvonne averted her gaze. "So when you cease contact with Jacqueline and you’re not going to meet her anymore, you'll then have the right to ask me to stay away from other men." i

Actually, she always wanted to say that to him.

But before that, she loved and resented him at the same time. So she did not dare to say those things. She was afraid that he might dislike her more if she said so.

But now she had thought it through. Since he was reluctant to divorce her, she had every reason to say those things. All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

"I know what you meant now. But I want to tell you that Jackie has moved abroad. I won’t have any kind o f contact with her anymore from now on." As he said that, he wanted to hold Yvonne’s hand.

But Yvonne retreated and avoided his touch. "I don’t trust you, not a bit. It's because I know that Jackie is different for you. Besides, won't she return here one day after she moved abroad? Besides, she once told m e that she won't ever give you up." 1

Henry was stunned. He then asked her with a deep voice, "When did she say that?"

Yvonne smiled bitterly. "It was a long time ago.

Besides, I told you about it before, but you didn’t believe me."

"Did you?" Henry frowned.

He did not remember that.

Yvonne mocked herself and shook her head. "Since you’ve forgotten about it, let's not talk about it anymore. I don't want to discuss it. Just let it be."

After that, she went toward the elevator.

Henry looked at her from behind for a long while. He then started to walk after her.

On their way back to the apartment, Yvonne said nothing to him. She looked out of the car window, and he did not know what she was thinking about at that moment.

Henry peeked at her from time to time. He was rather flustered.

Her distrust in him upsetted him. Did he not deserve her trust? 4

He confessed his love to her, telling her that he loved her. But she still thought that he loved Jacqueline instead.

They were silent all the way back to the apartment.

He was indeed engulfed in helplessness.

When they reached the apartment, Yvonne got out of the car and walked over to the other side of the car and gave him a bow. "Thank you for giving me a ride home."

Henry looked down at her. "Do you have to be so civil toward me?"

Yvonne straightened her body, pretending not to heed him. She then said, "I'm rather tired today, so I won’t invite you over. You can leave now."

"Are you asking me to leave?” Henry's eyes twitched slightly.

Yvonne’s eyes fluttered. "No, I didn't. I’m indeed exhausted. I don't have any energy left in me to entertain you."

Henry drummed his fingers at the window and said casually, "I don't need you to entertain me. You're my wife, and you live in my apartment. So I don't need your approval no matter whether I want to go up the apartment or not. Do you understand that?" 1

Yvonne frowned slightly. "I do, but I told you that I want to stay here alone. You gave your promise too. So you shouldn’t go to the apartment at your own wishes.”

"Wait for me here." Henry opened the door and got out of the car. "Suddenly, you prohibited me from going u p to the apartment. Do you still care about what I said i n the hospital just now?"

"What?" Yvonne looked at him.

Henry opened his mouth slightly and replied, "I asked you not to get so close with other men."

"I didn’t. I'm just feeling too stressed up." Yvonne felt slightly upset.

Henry narrowed his eyes. "How so?"