Chapter 1088: Chapter 1028: Trust Issues Between Husband and Wife
Laura?
The light in the bathroom was too dim, and the person in the photo was somewhat blurry, vaguely resembling Laura.
Adrian thought he was seeing things. As he leaned closer to examine it, he didn’t recognize Laura but recognized his own face.
The teenager in the photo was himself.
"What is this?" Adrian looked at the photo in shock.
He would never forget this scene. That day, he returned from a mission, and Laura was barely breathing. She waited for him to come back, said a few words, and then exhaled her last breath in his arms.
But why did Sienna Johnson have this photo?
Who took this photo?
Night Owl?
Adrian was left with no clue, a mess inside his mind, completely unable to understand what their purpose was.
Adrian immediately called Sienna Johnson back. This time, Sienna answered, and Adrian asked directly, "Where did the photo you just sent me come from?"
"Who is that girl? Your sweetheart?" Sienna asked.
"What nonsense are you talking?" Adrian was somewhat irritated.
Sienna didn’t expect him to be so angry, feeling a bit upset. She originally didn’t intend to tell him about this, but today he pushed her to the point where she couldn’t hold back.
"I don’t know who sent it to me. It came from an unknown number. Once, I couldn’t help but call back, but the system indicated it was a void number." After Sienna finished, she added, "I have a lot of these kinds of photos."
"Why are you only telling me now?"
"Because I didn’t think it was necessary."
"If these kinds of matters are unnecessary, then what matters are necessary?" Adrian was both angry and heartbroken.
Standing from different perspectives, they looked at the same issue but arrived at different conclusions.
From Sienna’s perspective, she trusted Adrian, respected him, and gave him some personal space. Adrian in the photo was still just a teenager.
Everyone is reckless in their youth, having a childhood sweetheart or something; didn’t she herself once like Noah Phillips?
As long as Adrian loves her now, that’s all that matters. She can’t demand a perfect man; that’s unrealistic, which is why she didn’t regard these anonymous photos as significant.
From Adrian’s perspective, this reflects Sienna’s lack of love for him!
If he saw such photos of Sienna with another person, he would have already confronted her with them.
"Sienna Johnson, you don’t love me at all!"
"What nonsense are you talking?"
A feeling of discomfort and anguish brewed inside Adrian. "You don’t care about these photos, which shows you don’t have me in your heart.
Do you still like Noah Phillips?"
Adrian had someone monitoring her, which displeased Sienna. The anger inside her hadn’t faded. She never expected that even after speaking out, Adrian still didn’t trust her.
"I didn’t tell you because I trust you. This has nothing to do with loving you. I don’t believe that constantly doubting your partner’s faithfulness equates to love.
The reason I sent you these photos today is to tell you that since we’re married, we should trust each other. Not have someone monitor each other, constantly suspecting the other may betray."
Sienna spoke all these words in a relatively calm tone and then hung up the call. Fearing Adrian would call back, she turned off her phone and went to bed.
On the other end, Adrian was far from calm.
He clamped a cigarette between his lips, agitatedly wanting to smoke one, only to find he didn’t have a lighter.
He eyed the photo and pondered who could have sent this photo to Sienna? What was their goal?
"Marion!" Adrian shouted loudly toward the outside.
Marion immediately pushed the door open and entered. Seeing Adrian’s enraged expression, he was taken aback, "Sixth Master, what do you need?"
"Find out who sent Madam this photo!" Adrian tossed the phone at Marion and marched out.
The phone slipped off Marion’s body, falling to the ground.
Marion picked up the phone from the floor and glanced at it. The open photo displayed a man he recognized as Sixth Master in his youth, and as for the woman...
"Who is this girl?"
Marion hadn’t been with Adrian for long and was unaware of some of his past, mistakenly assuming this was Adrian’s paramour.
"Sixth Master, what is it you want to do?"
Could she really be Sixth Master’s lover?
Marion wanted to inquire about why they should investigate the photo’s source but swallowed back his questions upon recalling Adrian’s earlier expression.
If he were to ask, it surely would lead to trouble.
...
Sienna Johnson didn’t consider the photo incident a big deal, yet Adrian took it very seriously.
Adrian cherished Sienna dearly. But if someone sought to sabotage their relationship, and should Sienna be petty and actually believe something, Adrian’s domestic life would be tumultuous.
Knowing Adrian’s gravity on the photo incident, Marion dared not neglect it. He spent just a day and discovered the photo sender’s number.
"Sixth Master, we found the number, but haven’t tracked down who sent it." Marion reported with his head lowered.
"What’s the number?"
"It’s a number beginning with 170. This number was obtained from a virtual operator called Edward Knight in Orienta, with no real-name registration. Moreover, it was used only once and then discarded."
Orienta’s mobile numbers are subject to real-name registration, but some virtual operators, eager to issue numbers and show results, disregard the strictness of real-name policies or even if top management desires rigor, it’s executed with negligence lower down, releasing numbers regardless, just to hit KPIs; reminiscent of traditional operators distributing SIMs through channels a few years ago.
This simultaneously leads to frequent wire frauds in Orienta.
"Give the number to Aaron Faber and have him investigate! Tell him, using any methods, any means, he must uncover who did this!" Adrian instructed.
"Got it, I’ll head right away!"
...
At the Abyanabad Imperial Palace,
An elderly man with snow-white hair was savoring coconut rice, while a woman with a slightly protruding belly silently sat beside him.
The old man was none other than Doctor X. No wonder Adrian couldn’t trace Doctor X’s hideout, as he was concealing himself in the Imperial Palace, specifically in Pelindi Princess’s quarters.
"... You shouldn’t leave the palace lately; Adrian’s men are still looking for you. If you’re exposed, it will be troublesome," Night Owl warned.
"Adrian, isn’t he busy investigating anonymous photos lately? Does he still have the energy to track us down?" Doctor X queried.
"We can’t afford to take risks!"
Doctor X had long grown tired of being within Gulit’s rear court here; there’s no laboratory where he could conduct experiments, only able to watch TV, read newspapers, unable to find someone to converse with.
Gulit is akin to a block of wood; chatting ten sentences of his own wouldn’t draw one from Gulit.
"Night Owl, congratulations on becoming a father." Doctor X glanced at Gulit’s belly, which gave an acute jolt, wearing a fearful expression.
Night Owl spoke in a cold, heartless tone, "That’s not my child, it’s that of Abyanabad’s Sultan!"
This is the child’s purpose, to replace Kiya, ascending as Abyanabad Sultan, becoming Night Owl’s puppet.
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