My Villain

Chapter Sixty-Eight

It took her a while before she could answer. "Oh... yes, Tao. He is just resting right now."

"That's good. I wanted to check on him because he called our Boss but wasn't able to call any of us. He must be feeling really bad. Anyway, I hope he gets better soon Zuer. He's been looking like a ghost in the office so it's probably because he already had the flu."

Zuer felt her hands go cold.

"Th – Thank you Tao for checking in on him."

"Of course, Zuer. Sorry too since you might have your hands full right now."

She put the phone down, feeling her legs about to give way.

She closed her eyes as all kinds of thought washed through her.

As if willed by forces outside of her control, she checked on Feiyu's phone trying to see any signs of what could possibly be triggering his strange behavior and today's lie.

Could he be cheating on her?

DEAR GOD IF THAT WAS THE REASON -

In all of their time together and despite knowing his phone's password, she has never looked through his phone, BUT she finds herself doing so now without an ounce of guilt building up inside her.

She needs to find out or her head will explode.

Zuer went through his messages like a mad woman, checking, double-checking.

"Yue, we need to talk."

There. Written just this morning and saved on his drafts.

Her eyes popped wide like saucers and instead of the relief she supposed she should feel at the seeming confirmation that he isn't cheating on her, a downpour of dread claimed her heart.

Why is her husband messaging Shen Yue so they could talk? And why didn't he talk to her about this?

Why did he hide THIS from her????

Dear God. Dear God. Dear God.

She immediately ran back the living room to take her baby.

As she backed her car out of the house, she prays that Feiyu has not yet done anything that could potentially destroy the happiness of one of her great friends.

She tried to call Yue's phone while driving but received no response.

"FEIYU WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?", she screamed in frustration at her husband inside her head.

She prayed to the heavens, Yue would answer her phone.

Zueris going to scream at her husband directly if this is something monumentally stupid and possibly damaging to two people that she cares a lot about.

"Don't be stupid Feiyu. Please... please... please don't be stupid."

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"The last time we saw each other ended on a bad note", Feiyu told the writer now after he sipped on his coffee.