Chapter 63

My mother-in-law was shouting, "Why haven’t you answered my calls these past few days? And you even hung up on me! Don’t tell me you're actually cheating, and with some old man stuck in the hospital?!" Just as I thought—Matthew couldn't out-argue me in the hospital, so he saw my uncle and ran off to rat me out to his mom. I casually flipped my long, wavy hair and gave a little laugh. "If I deny it, you’ll go, ‘Matthew saw it with his own eyes! You’re a liar, such a shameless woman!’ But if I admit it, you’ll just go off on me from head to toe, curse my entire family tree, and still say I’m shameless, right? So no matter what I say, you just want to call me names. Tell me I’m wrong." She probably didn’t expect me to be this direct. Took her a moment, then she ground her teeth and snapped, "Don’t make me out to be some evil mother-in-law! If you hadn’t misbehaved, I wouldn’t have said anything! Just tell me—was what Matthew saw the truth? What’s the deal with you being in the hospital? A