SWNOVELS Chapter 42
Chapter 42 What Do You Get Out of It
Driven by anger, Jake sprung up from his seat and followed Gwen out of the Tellerson.
Standing behind him was Bradley, who boasted, “Am I right? A couple who dines at the luxurious Tellerson only has one goal later to get a room!”
Patting Jake on the shoulder, he suggested, “Bro, forget about that loose woman!”
Jake swatted his hand away. He walked toward the hotel across the road like he was in a trance. He couldn’t believe that she had gotten cozy with Ashton Duncan and even slept around with Ashton’s employee!
He wondered, “Gwen, have you changed, or have you always been a loose woman?”
Carson stepped into the elevator when it arrived, and Gwen was about to follow suit when someone forcefully grabbed her by the wrist.
Jake’s unfeeling voice echoed in the air. “Let’s have a talk”
Gwen scoffed when she realized who he was. Sounding indifferent, she taunted, “Mr. Hall, you seem like you have a lot of free time. I’m busy now.”
Jake’s appearance before she went up to the hotel room with Carson put her in shock, but she quickly collected herself.
She brushed it off as a coincidence. Jake couldn’t have tailed her.
“Please take your time.” Carson immediately put on an ingratiating look.
He said to Gwen, “I’ll wait for you in the room, Ms. Lawson.”
Gwen narrowed her eyes as she watched the elevator carry Carson up to his floor. She thought, “He’s delusional if he thinks he can take advantage of me without getting hurt.”
As Jake tightened his grip on Gwen’s wrist, she felt a pang of pain and shook his hand off. “Spit it out!”
“Why are you sleeping with that trash?” He confronted her with an accusatory tone and a sour expression.
Carson was notorious in Bellmont for being merciless in getting what he wanted. He’d been sleeping around so much that he might be riddled with STDs.
Gwen nonchalantly folded her arms on her chest. “That’s none of your business.”
She met his angry eyes with her bright, shining ones. Every word that came out of her mouth challenged his boundaries. She added, “We’ve been divorced for a while now. You still have the divorce certificate, don’t you? I sleep with who I want; you don’t have the right to question me!”
Jake’s anger stalled, replaced by a look of conflict. She was right. It was not his place to question her choices.
Feeling the burning gaze of her eagle eyes, he blurted out his real thoughts, “You’ve suffered a lot in the three years you lived with the Hall family, but you can’t use that as an excuse to justify your behavior!
“Dating Henry Lawson gets you the general manager job in Savant Group’s Bellmont office, but what about sleeping with Carson Lowe? What do you get from sleeping with that trash?
“You might as well sleep with me! I can at least offer you with more than they can provide!”
While he was speaking, Gwen slapped him hard on the face, attracting everyone’s attention in the lobby.
A fleeting look of heartbreak crossed her stern eyes. She jeered, “Oh, is that how you perceive me?”
After three years of working in Hall Group, she was shocked to learn that Jake looked down on her just like as everyone else. He did not acknowledge her performance at all.
Knowing he had misspoken, Jake clenched his jaw and took the slap.
After quietly admonishing herself for her poor taste in men, Gwen looked up with confidence. His opinion of her did
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not matter.
She said without a care, “I’m sleeping with Carson Lowe for my own reasons. Spare your worries, Mr. Hall.”
Marching into the elevator, she pressed the button without taking another look at him. With that, they parted ways.
Gwen knocked on the door of the room that Carson had booked for them.
He immediately answered the door with a lecherous smile and invited her to come in, “Ms. Lawson, you’ve kept me waiting.”