She slapped him!
The sound of the slap was especially clear in the narrow car.
The ball of fury inside Audrey had just exploded.
There was nothing between her and Henley. How could Cornell humiliate her like that?
Inside the car, the air soured instantly. The atmosphere crackled with tension.
“How dare you!” In a fit of pique, Cornell grabbed Audrey by the throat and yelled in her face.
Never in his decades of being alive had anyone slapped him in the face.
It was even more shocking that the first person to do so was his obedient wife, Audrey.
And she did it because of another man!
This made the slap more humiliating.
The car fell into a dead silence.
Behind the wheel, the driver wished he could just disappear.
Who would have thought that the decisive CEO of the Clement Group would get smacked in the face by a soft woman?
It was the shocker of a lifetime for the driver. If he sold this story to one of those tabloids, he would get paid some good money.
But the driver had no intentions to do so. He loved his job. Besides, he didn’t want to die like a fly.
The silence continued.
Cornell carried an air of coldness, and his face became more somber.
His eyes were blazing red like that of a demon and his grip tightened.
Audrey panicked.
Judging by how demonic Cornell looked now, he was going to strangle her to death.
“Cornell… You bastard… Let go of me…”
Audrey’s face turned crimson due to fear. Her words didn’t come out straight.
Despite her words, Cornell’s anger was still boiling. He toyed with the idea of locking her up at home so she wouldn’t be able to resist him because of another man.
When Audrey’s face started turning white, Cornell suddenly realized what he was doing and let her go.
Audrey coughed and gasped for air desperately.
Patting her chest, she collapsed on the seat.
She drank in great gulps of air, grasping the importance of the air.
Cornell didn’t seem to care that she was struggling.
He stared at her with deep and cold eyes as if he wanted to tear her apart with his bare hands.
Just when Audrey thought he was going to bully her again, he suddenly asked, “Audrey, why were you with him?”
Why? Audrey wanted to laugh.
Why did she walk on the road barefooted and bumped into Henley? It was all because of Cornell! Damn it!
The things between he and Cecilia made her so disgusted.
Audrey cursed him in her mind, but she didn’t dare to speak out.
Telling him all that would only hint that she still had feelings for him.
Cornell must view her as one of the many women who were infatuated with him.
He sure didn’t give a hoot about her feelings.
It was clear now that Cornell would stop at nothing to defend Cecilia since Cecilia could do no wrong in his eyes.
Looking at Audrey’s silent face, Cornell was even angrier.
He sneered, “What’s wrong? You won’t even talk to me because your beloved is back now? Didn’t you want to further your education in the city where he stayed at that time? It’s a pity that you didn’t go there, huh? Now that he’s back, you want to get back with him, don’t you?”
There was a hint of jealousy in Cornell’s words as he questioned Audrey indignantly.
“You investigated me?” Audrey widened her eyes at him in anger.
Ignoring her anger, Cornell picked up a gilded business card with one hand.
“Henley Brooks, the general manager of IA Investment Bank.”
He suddenly threw the business card into the air, which landed by Audrey’s feet at last. With a faint smile, Cornell said, “Audrey, you have been married to me for two years, so you should know that I can crush that little bastard like an ant.”
Henley was indeed an excellent man, but he was definitely not strong enough to compete with the Clement family.
Audrey’s anger quadrupled at Cornell’s unreasonable behavior.
“Leave Henley out of this! If you are mad at me, just aim at me. Do you have to stoop so low to bully the innocent? What kind of man are you?”
A bomb went off in Cornell’s head and spread to his entire body. He couldn’t hold back his anger anymore.
“Stop the car!” he ordered coldly.
It wasn’t until the car came to a halt that Audrey realized they had just arrived at the gate of the Serenity Villas.
Before she could blink, Cornell had already gotten off and walked to her side. He opened the door and carried her out.
The gate opened automatically. When he walked into the house, the maid came over immediately.
“No one is allowed to get in the house!”
Cornell’s eyes were icy cold and filled with malice. It scared the shit out of the maid. She could only nod in obedience.
Audrey was somehow flustered. She had no idea what Cornell was going to do, so she thumped his chest with her left hand.
“Cornell, put me down! What are you doing?”
Bang! The door of the bedroom was kicked open and rebound closed after Cornell strode in.
In a split second, Audrey was thrown on the soft quilt of the bed.
Cornell pressed her and grabbed her chin forcefully.
“Let me show you what kind of man I am. You seem to have forgotten how you used to cry for mercy on this bed. Well, it doesn’t matter. I’m gonna refresh your memory now.”
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