Chapter 69: 069. After all, husband and wife – 1 Chapter 69: 069. After all, husband and wife – 1 “It’s getting late, Grandma has arranged for the driver to pick you up so you can get some rest, sleeping too late isn’t good.”
“Mmm, I’ll give Oliver a call.”
After making the call, the Old Lady said to Elly Campbell, “It’s hard to get a taxi at this hour, and a beautiful girl like you in an evening dress, I’m not at ease letting you go alone at this late hour. When Oliver comes over, he can drop you off on the way home.”
Elly thought about it, the Jones Family’s home was on the way to the Campbell Family’s, so she didn’t refuse and nodded in agreement. Besides, she didn’t feel good about leaving the Old Lady here alone to wait for the driver.
Before long, a black Maybach pulled up in the parking lot outside the café.
Elly was helping the Old Lady out of the café, and her smiling face froze the moment she saw the person getting out of the Maybach, and her complexion instantly turned ugly.
Adam Jones hadn’t expected the Old Lady to be with Elly Campbell at this time. Previously, the Old Lady had often done things to create opportunities for him and Elly.
So, seeing Elly there now, his first thought was that the Old Lady and Elly were again conspiring to deceive him into coming.
In that moment, there was a small flicker of happiness in his heart, which vanished as soon as he saw the coldness that came over Elly’s face as she saw him, realizing that this was likely the Old Lady acting on her own accord.
Elly didn’t know he would be coming, and the way she looked at him now was so cold it made his heart clench.
Stepping forward, he glanced at Elly, who stood coldly and silently to the side, then turned to the Old Lady and said, “Grandma, Oliver’s family had some issues, and I was free, so I came over.”
It was as if he deliberately explained, thinking about what to say to Elly, when she had already let go of the Old Lady’s hand and said, “Grandma, I’m going to leave first.”
Without giving Adam Jones another look, she walked towards the roadside.
On her feet were sharp, thin heels; on her body, a single thin evening dress. In the early autumn night, she seemed somewhat cold, but she did not appear to feel it at all.
As he saw Elly about to leave, Adam Jones didn’t wait for the Old Lady and turned back to shout, “Elly Campbell!”
Elly stopped, turned her head towards him, “What is it, President Jones?”
Adam had already walked briskly towards her, took off his suit jacket and draped it over her shoulders, saying, “You’re planning to go back dressed ?”
Elly’s gaze was silent, like that of a stranger, and as soon as Adam’s jacket touched her shoulders, she took it off, “President Jones need not trouble himself.”
Tossing the jacket back to Adam, she turned and continued walking towards the roadside.
But after only a couple of steps, her wrist was seized by Adam. Elly turned her head to look at him, and then down at her wrist he was holding, her eyes still cold.
“Is President Jones intending to play the gangster here?”
Watching her indifferent demeanor and thinking about her wandering around dressed like that stirred a fury inside him for no reason.
With a forceful grip, he pulled Elly into his embrace, met the faint anger brimming in her cold eyes with a smirk and said, “You’re still my wife, is it a crime to play gangster with you?”
Elly didn’t want to quibble with Adam Jones over the divorce any longer. After struggling forcefully several times, she still couldn’t break free from his grasp.
She looked at him with cold eyes and said indifferently, “Adam Jones, considering we were once husband and wife, let’s not make this too ugly.”