Elizabeth closed her eyes. With a wry smile, she wanted to say something, but her heart was full of bitterness and she couldn't say anything.
James took a deep breath, "What on earth is this?"
Elizabeth opened her eyes, looked up at James, and said feebly, "Shouldn't you... ask yourself?"
James shivered and took a step back with a dejected expression on his face.
After a few seconds, he came to sense from the immense shock and panic. He stepped forward and grabbed Elizabeth's arm, "Who... gave you these things? Who did it?"
Elizabeth bit her lip and just shook her head. She didn't know who sent it, and she didn't have the mood to care about it. She only knew that she was very helpless and confused.
James put down his hand disconsolately and clenched it into a fist. However, although he did so, he couldn't control the panic and fear in his heart, as well as the fury.
These things... Why did Elizabeth have these things?
The face of the man whom he had not seen for a long time suddenly flashed through his mind. He had almost forgotten that man. He only felt that his anger had overflowed. Originally, he was worried about her and wanted to come back to teach her a lesson. In the end, it seemed that he had been taught a lesson by someone else.
He didn't know why he had been so flustered and nervous before he came back, but he didn't expect that the reason would be like this.
He did not know who sent these things, but he knew that it could not be the person whom had been paid by him at that time. But if he knew who it was, he would not let the person go easily.
He didn't expect that after taking his money, those wicked guys would secretly take photos and leave these evidence.
It had been so many years, but they still kept these photos! Moreover, what made him angriest was that he didn't even notice this back then!
After so many years, when he looked at those photos, he went berserk. At the same time, he felt extremely painful and even scared.
All his secrets had been exposed to the person he loved the most. What would Elizabeth... think of him?
He quivered all of a sudden, and then looked at Elizabeth in panic and said in a hurry, "Honey... don't look at this! The fact is not what you think. This is a misunderstanding."
As he said this, he bent down to pick up those photos. He looked so anxious and was not as calm as he used to be.
He kept saying while picking it up, "It's not like that. Believe me. This is not the truth..."
Elizabeth looked at James's slightly awkward face with bland eyes, and then turned her eyes to the photos on the ground. Her heart was bitter and depressed, but her eyes were fixed on those photos.
Those photos made her dazzled and struck fear in her heart. The longer she looked at them, the more disappointed and doleful she was.
In a photo, James sat at the table with a serious look on his face. In front of him was a man who looked a little ruffian and idle.
In a photo, James wore different clothes. He smiled evilly at the two men in front of him and a woman who dressed gorgeously and garishly.
In a photo, James gave a check to the man.
James shook his head, "The truth is really not like this. Believe me." He kept saying like this, and he didn't know how many times he had said like this after he saw those photos. However, except for this, he didn't know what to say.
"Believe you... How can I believe you?" Elizabeth said with a sad smile. She felt cold in her heart and body, "Tell me!"
She thought that if he could take the initiative to admit it instead of denying it, she might feel a little better. However, he did not.
That was why she felt more upset.
He did such a disgusting thing to hurt Xavier, but he refused to admit it. Moreover... She took a deep breath and thought of Xavier's strange performance in front of James when he had just returned from aboard, and James asked her to stay away from Xavier...
At that time, if she asked more questions about Xavier, James would be angry and impatient. Especially when she was trapped in the mountain with Xavier, James lost his temper at her after they came back...
Thinking of all these things, she finally understood what had happened between James and Xavier that day.
It turned out to be like this.
James... was just afraid that Xavier would tell her these things, wasn't he?
He had made such a big mistake, but he was afraid that others would know it?
"I..." James gritted his teeth fiercely, and his heart beat wildly, "Honey, you once said that no matter what I did, you would believe me. Now, you... still believe me, don't you?"
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