Chapter 284 This Is All Your Fault
After getting in the car, while Brittany wasn't paying attention, he quickly took some painkillers and swallowed them.
Brittany stood stiffly in place. Despite the summer heat, she felt a chill all over, penetrating her bones and making her shiver.
She bit her lip, turned around, and opened the passenger door, getting into Joshua's car.
"I just wanted to sleep with you, Joshua, not for anyone else," Brittany's voice was shallow, showing no emotion. She spoke ambiguous words like a robot.
Joshua felt his heart being twisted like a knife. "All right, if you behave, I'll let him go," he replied.
Brittany's eyes filled with moisture as she turned her face to the side, smiling slightly. "Is this good enough?" she asked.
As she said that, she let her hair loose, the curved strands covering her shoulders. She seductively smiled at Joshua. "Is this good enough?" she asked again.
Joshua almost wished he were dead at that moment. In so much pain, what was the point of living?
He bent down, climbed over to the back seat, laying down with his elbow resting underneath his head, nonchalantly trying to hide the abnormalities in his body. With a smile, he said, "Drive, let's go home."
Brittany sent a message to Isabella, sat in the driver's seat, and drove away.
Joshua rarely used painkillers to numb his pain because the side effects after 12 hours were too severe.
But he couldn't resist, he missed her so much.
He missed her, the unique scent on her, her softness, everything about her.
Joshua also knew that his girl would not surrender so easily, she would fight back, yet, what about it?
He didn't care.
During the whole journey, they didn't say a word to each other. Brittany drove seriously, and Joshua couldn't bear to close his eyes.
In the underground parking garage in New York, Brittany parked the car steadily.
The pain medication took effect, and Joshua's pain was more bearable. He loosened his tie and opened the car door.
After getting out of the car, he walked in front, knowing naturally that Brittany was following behind him.
Upon arriving at the corresponding floor, Joshua opened the door to the room and entered first.
Then, he knelt on one knee and took off Brittany's shoes, putting a pair of soft slippers on her feet, looked up at her with an almost reverent gaze, and said," Go take a shower."
Brittany silently let him manipulate her.
Following his command, she went to the bathroom without even glancing at Joshua.
Once inside, all her pretended strength vanished, and she stood under the shower head in despair.
Brittany tilted her face upwards, letting the water wash over her.
Five or six minutes later, Brittany wrapped herself in a bathrobe and walked out of the bathroom.
Joshua hadn't changed his clothes and was still wearing his suit. He leaned lazily on the bed with raised eyebrows and a relaxed smile on his lips.
Seeing him like this, Brittany's memories drifted back to the distant past.
Back when they hadn't graduated yet, Joshua would get tired from playing basketball and then sleep on her lap, wearing the same smile on his face as he did now.
The memories drifted far away, how beautiful they used to be, and now, how embarrassing it has become.
How deeply Joshua loved her back then, and how cold-hearted he is now.
He shattered the past bit by bit, leaving her no room to breathe.
Brittany took a laundry basket filled with dirty clothes to the closet, and then played with her phone for a moment, her head bowed.
When she came out, she walked slowly towards Joshua, sat down beside him on the bed, turned her phone around vertically, and placed it on the phone stand on the bedside table.
Turning around, her slender fingers caressed Joshua's face, and suggested, "Go take a shower?"
Joshua directly grabbed Brittany's hand and gently kissed it. His affectionate eyes locked onto Brittany, and said, "I couldn't resist, I won't shower."
He exerted a little force on her hand, and in the blink of an eye, Brittany was trapped in his embrace.
Brittany felt repulsed, she found it dirty, and throughout the whole process, she frowned.
Even though it was the gentlest moment in Joshua's memory.
But it still felt so humiliating.
"Brittany, I love you... Brittany, I love you..." he repeated, his words filled with passion and sincerity. But Brittany just coldly smiled. The words a man says in bed... if they were true, it would be laughable.
Afterward, Brittany's gaze was unfocused, her body exhausted and limp, staring blankly at the ceiling. Joshua got off the bed and tidied himself up, except for some wrinkles in his pants, there was no indication of anything different from before, still impeccably dressed.
Brittany silently sat up and calmly got dressed. Shortly after, Joshua returned and handed Brittany a glass of water, as well as... a pill. "Of course, it's to prevent you from getting pregnant with my child," Joshua smiled as he gazed at Brittany, "after all, I've given you millions."
Brittany took it, her hand trembling for a moment, but quickly regained composure and swallowed it calmly. "Be good, it's for your own good," Joshua continued to smile, but his eyes were filled with bitterness.
Brittany's eyes turned red, and she asked directly, her throat hoarse from the intensity just now, "Can you let Larry Hall go?"
Joshua's lips curled into a smirk, naturally shaking his head. "No, I promised, didn't I? Brittany, you verbally expressed that you sincerely wanted to be with me."
Brittany's eyes showed no ripples as if she had known this would happen long ago. She smiled a fake smile and picked up her phone from the bedside table.
Then, she opened the secretly recorded video and showed it to Joshua. Joshua watched it with a smile. He even raised his hand to fix the loose strands of hair on Brittany's forehead and said with a smile, "All right, we're quite compatible in bed, there's no one more suitable for each other than us. Any questions? But I didn't expect Brittany to have a habit of secretly recording videos."
"Joshua, let's not beat around the bush. Release Larry Hall," Brittany didn't believe for a moment that Joshua could be so indifferent. She thought Joshua's nonchalant attitude was just a facade.
"Brittany, what if... I don't release him?" Joshua asked.
"Well, if I were to release this video, not only would it be the end of you and Nicole, but your reputation would also be tarnished," Brittany said as she took her phone back and clenched it in her hand.
With her head held high, she said, "I can easily design and edit pictures using Photoshop. There will only be you in them."
Joshua's smile faded inch by inch, and after a long pause, he asked with difficulty, "Is it worth treating me like this for the sake of Larry Hall?"
Brittany felt a heavy weight on her chest. "You forced me into this, Joshua," she said through clenched teeth.
Joshua rubbed Brittany's head and said, "Since that's the case, then let I'll him go. Don't be upset about him anymore. I'll feel sorry for you."
"Huh," Brittany sarcastically snorted.
Joshua knew it would turn out like this. Every confession he made was sincere, but Brittany wouldn't believe it.
He smiled bitterly. Wasn't he the one who led her to this? If she believed him, how could he dare to express his genuine love?
"And," Brittany looked directly at Joshua and said, "let me leave."
There was no trace of nostalgia in Brittany's eyes, which made Joshua's heart tighten.
His physical condition couldn't last much longer before revealing the truth. At most, it would only be another month...
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