"Brian," Joanne suddenly called him by his full name, and her voice was as cold as the winter wind, "I want a divorce."

Her voice was very light, but so firm.

It seemed that it was not a decision she had made in a short time, driven by bad emotions, but... planned for a long time.

Brian's face went serious in an instant. "Joanne." The low and dangerous tone seemed to warn Joanne.

He had said long ago that she should not easily say the word "divorce".

Joanne wiped the tears from her face and raised her head to meet Brian's gaze. "I am not angry, I am serious."

Her emphasis made Brian's pupils violently shrink, and he grabbed her hand. "Do you know what you are talking about?"

"...I know," Joanne said with a sigh of relief, "I am asking you for a divorce."

"Just because of what happened in the morning?" Brian could not believe it.

"Isn't it enough!?" Joanne raised her voice, struggled, but Brian's hand caught her tightly and she couldn't break away.

She looked at him with full tears, but she saw some shock from his eyes and the remaining was... heartache.

In an instant, it seemed that there was a sharp knife stabbing into Joanne's heart, and she was in more pain than Brian, being overwhelmed with sorrow.

No matter how deep and pained she was, she could only endure it.

"All you see is Rosalyn's trap." Brian explained to Joanne as calmly as possible, and told her about what happened from the day before until then.

"Nothing happened between the two of you?" Joanne repeated that sentence which had been repeatedly emphasized by Brian and suddenly laughed. "Why did Southern Union Bank suddenly agree to the loan? And the money has been transferred to the Lambert Group' account!"

In fact, she was the prettiest when she laughed, the smile was always warm and clean. However, at the moment, her lips were only left with a piece of coolness.

She didn't believe him-Brian's heart went cold bit by bit...

"Do you know how Rosalyn told me?" Joanne continued, "She said, you told her that you needed the loan from Southern Union Bank, and you were willing to do anything for it."

"So you believe her words, believe what happened between me and her?" Brian's look had revealed some anger.

"..." Joanne turned her head, no matter whether it was right or not, she just believed it.

Brian smiled coldly, and was just about to say that he still disdained to use that method, when the phone in his jacket suddenly rang. He subconsciously was about to hang up the phone, but saw the name of Gavin on the screen; he picked it up.

"Look at the news!" Gavin was hurried, which was a rare occurrence. "What's going on!? The media are all talking, and my phone is about to burst!"

Brian rubbed his temple and replied, "I will ask Oscar about it."

"..." Gavin at the other end of the phone was stunned. "What does it have to do with Oscar? I am not talking about the news that Southern Union Bank agreed to give Lambert Group loan. Isn't the loan what you talked with Oscar yesterday?"

Brian frowned. "Then what are you talking about?"

Gavin sent a web link directly, and Brian clicked it. The title was actually-

"The president's wife of Lambert Group spent two hours with a strange man in a hotel. Lambert Group' crisis, the hostess is also suspected to have an affair."

Pulling down was a news picture, and the picture was not someone else, it was Joanne and... Shawn.

It could be seen clearly that Joanne and Shawn entered the hotel together. They walked side by side, and the behavior was not so close, but at a glance, the relationship between them was extraordinary.

Further down was the content of the report.

The report said that the reporter happened to be doing an interview at the hotel. He accidentally saw a strange man holding Joanne and heading to the hotel. According to the hotel waiter, they entered the same room and came out after a long time.

Every word of the text was imaginative.

The reporter guessed at the end whether it would be because Lambert Group was going bankrupt and Brian was no longer a bachelor who was as powerful as before, so Joanne wanted to find another man to ensure that she could continue her usual lifestyle.

Brian squinted his eyes with danger and handed the phone to Joanne. "What were you doing with Shawn in the hotel?"

Joanne's brain was blank for half a second. She looked after taking the mobile phone; she suddenly Rowdy's words at the hotel on that same day.

Rowdy asked her, go in and out the hotel with a man during the day, wasn't she afraid of being caught by the media and make Brian misunderstand?

At the moment, it seemed that everything was arranged by Rowdy. The information he leaked to the reporter was probably that "Brian's wife had an affair, and in the afternoon she would go to the hotel with a man to get a room", so the reporter dared to make such a bold guess.

Moreover, Rowdy had long expected she would not explain it to Brian so that he would not be exposed.

She looked at Brian. Except for the danger at the bottom of his eyes, there was no anger on his face, and he didn't scold her coldly.

She was being suspicious of Brian, while he... still believed her.

It was only at that time that his trust became a powerful weapon to sting Joanne, and it was destined to be used by Joanne.

Joanne said word by word at a time, "A man and a woman went to the hotel and stayed in the same room for a long time. What do you think they can do? I have nothing to explain, you..."

"Joanne!" Brian interrupted Joanne's words without warning. He bit his teeth and said, "I want to hear the truth!"

"I am telling the truth." Joanne turned her face away, and couldn't bear to face his anger and heartache. "Since I was photographed by a reporter, I don't want to lie to you again. The reporter guessed... there is nothing wrong with it."

Brian's hand slowly tightened, clenched into a fist, and the knuckles were white.

He slammed his fists and struck the mirror behind Joanne.

"Oh la la-" The mirror was torn apart and fell to the ground, making a mourning, shattering sound.

Every piece of broken mirror, when it fell, seemed to have scratched on Joanne's heart. It was too late to consider whether it was appropriate, she had been subconsciously pulled up Brian's hand-

Blood had long blurred his flesh, and the scarlet blood covered countless scars.

The more she worried, the colder Brian's smile was. Do you still want to admit that you slept with Shawn?

Joanne suddenly was sober and loosened his hand. "Did I deny it? Did you not compromise with Rosalyn for the loan? We... are just the same."

"Joanne!"

Brian snorted and his chest went violently up and down, as if he were going to tear her apart.

She clearly knew that he didn't mean that. Why was she unwilling to explain things clearly?

She clearly knew that as long as she denied it, he would not hesitate to believe.

Temples were suddenly hurting, and once again, the phone rang at an untimely moment. It was still Gavin.

"Speak!" Brian only said one word embedded with danger.

Ehh... Gavin was shocked and realized that Brian was on the verge of anger. He said quickly, The news that Southern Union Bank agreed to give us the loan have been distributed. Many partners contacted me to talk about cooperation, you... need to head to the company as soon as possible. Many things are waiting for you to be managed."

Brian hung up the phone and looked at Joanne coldly. "I will find out what you did with Shawn in the hotel. I don't want to listen to you talking about the divorce again!"

He turned to go downstairs. Simon felt from his look that something was wrong, and saw the blood on his hand. He then held him back and called Martha to get the medicine cabinet.

Martha's movement was very quick. She took the medicine cabinet and said, I will go up to call Young Madam, she's good at it.

Simon had noticed that the young couple had a fight, so he pulled Martha and simply treated the wound for Brian, and asked, "Shall we prepare the car or your breakfast?"

"Get the car," Brian didn't have the appetite for breakfast. He walked out a few steps, then suddenly stopped and said, "Wherever Joanne is going, stop her."

After that, he stepped out firmly, and his back was full of a chill.

Simon sighed and said to himself, "There was such a big thing happening in the company some time ago. When the company's problems were about to be solved, how could they have a fight?"

At that time, Martha also reacted and asked, "Shall we call the Madam?"

"It should be just a little quarrel." Simon still did not believe that Joanne and Brian could start a fight, saying, "let's wait and see. If things are still serious at night then we'll call the Madam."

Before Simon finished, they saw Joanne going downstairs and dragging a suitcase.

"Young Madam!" Martha rushed up and intercepted Joanne in the middle of the stairs. "What are you doing? Let's talk about it when the young master comes back at night, it will be fine if you talk about it. It only hurts feelings if you do this."

"We have no misunderstandings." Joanne said with her head bowed.

Martha "squeaked" and grabbed Joanne's suitcase, then moved it back to the room. "The young master said, no matter where you were going today, you must stop and wait for him to come back."

Joanne knew that Martha was not malicious so she could not blame her. She didn't know what other methods she could use and she couldn't leave that day.

Joanne had to make a temporary compromise. She followed Martha back to the room and said, "Martha, you can leave, I want to stay alone for a while."

"okay."

Before Martha took a few steps and was stopped by Joanne. She hesitated and asked, "The wound in his hand..."

"Do not worry," Martha knew that Joanne still cared about Brian. She smiled and said, "Simon helped the young master with it."

Joanne nodded and fell into silence.

Martha originally thought about talking to Joanne, but after getting along for more than half a year, she had known that Joanne was not an unreasonable person. That contradiction still required her and Brian to talk openly and honestly.

When Joanne went to the closet to clean up the mirror fragments and wipe the blood on the floor, she didn't know why her sense of smell suddenly became very sensitive; and she clearly perceived the pungent smell of blood.

At school, in the dissection room, she had long been accustomed to smells other than the smell of blood. Why did she become so sensitive suddenly?

After thinking about it, there was no clue, and Joanne left it behind.

The most important thing at the moment was figuring how to get out of there. After all, Rowdy had only given her three days.

Leaving

Joanne's eyes suddenly felt warm when thinking about the word, and she looked up, trying to push her tears back, but at that moment, a few drops of tears splashed on the floor.

It hurt so much, but she was willing to do so.

As long as she withstood that pain, Lambert Group would be able to return to life, and nothing would happen to Brian.

Compared with Brian and his efforts, her pain was almost negligible.