But today, he remained indifferent.
She felt a strong uneasiness: "David, what’s wrong with you? Are you still suspecting that I did that? I really didn’t. Joanna is very important to me. How could I do such a thing to her?"
In the past, whenever Annie put on a pitiful and aggrieved look and shed a few tears, David would easily believe her.
Because in his heart, Annie was a very gentle, weak, kind-hearted, and fragile woman who needed someone to protect her.
He was her only support.
She might deceive others, but not him.
David had been confident in this for many years.
But in the end, he found out that he had been a fool for so many years.
Once the trust in his heart had a crack, he began to suspect other things as well.
Annie could lie to him about her pregnancy, and about other things too.
Perhaps she wasn’t as vulnerable as he had imagined.
What she showed in front of him wasn’t her real side.
"Is Joanna really that important to you?" David spoke, his voice cold.
"Yes." Annie immediately said, "I only have one sister. Of course she’s important to me."
David looked her straight in the eye: "Then why did you seduce me in the first place?"
"Wh-, what?" Annie was taken aback.
David narrowed his eyes: "If you hadn’t been so proactive and tried to seduce me over and over again, I would have never thought about being with you. You say Joanna is important to you, yet you secretly seduced her fiance."
"Are you not afraid that she will be heartbroken if she finds out about this? Cut ties with you?"
After David realized he’d been deceived, his intelligence gradually kicked in.
He thought back to the various encounters he had with Annie when they first met and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had been schemed against.
The first time he slept with Annie was on a night when he was completely drunk; she took him home and cared for him all night.
When he opened his eyes the next day, he saw her lying naked beside him.
That night, he was so drunk that he couldn’t remember anything.
At that time, seeing the scene, he thought he’d succumbed to his lust while drunk and slept with his future sister-in-law.
Later, Annie acted very sensibly and said that she was also drunk that night and everything that happened was consensual, she didn’t want to hurt Joanna, so he should treat it was just a dream and didn’t need to take any responsibility for her.
The more gentle and understanding Annie appeared, the guiltier he felt.
And he always wanted to make it up to her.
Gradually, the two began to have more private interactions.
Later on, some things began to spiral out of control.
Now, David seriously doubted whether he and Annie had really had a relationship that first night.
He was so drunk that night that he didn’t even have the strength to walk; how could he have the energy for that kind of activity.
His questioning left Annie at a loss.
She was stunned for a few seconds, suddenly realizing that David was doubting her.
Annie was genuinely panicked.
She didn’t expect that a small matter would make David stop trusting her.
Even began to doubt her.
Panic flashed in her eyes; she hurriedly stepped forward, reaching out a hand to grab David’s hand: "David, it’s because I loved you so much that I couldn’t help it. You know how much I care about you."
As her hand reached out, she caught nothing.