Chapter 3

After arriving at the fire station, I thought for a long time before opening the captain’s office door and handing him my resignation.

The captain sighed and placed a hand on my shoulder.

He seemed to have expected from the beginning that I wouldn’t stay there for long, so he didn’t try too hard to keep me, merely telling me that we should stay in touch.

I nodded.

Just as I was about to leave, I noticed the troubled look on the captain’s face. He seemed to have something else to say.

For some reason, I suddenly had a bad feeling.

I looked at him. “Please just say what’s on your mind. There’s no need to be formal with me.”

Only then did he say in a serious voice, “When the hotel caught fire yesterday, I think I saw your girlfriend inside.”

“ There was also a man with her, and the relationship between them didn’t look quite normal. At first, I thought I had seen wrong, but later I found her ID.”

As he spoke, the captain took Jenna’s ID out of his desk drawer.

I was silent for a long while before reaching out to take it.

“I’ll give it to her.”

I had thought this would remain a secret, but the captain had seen it too.

Everyone knew what she had done, yet she thought I was still being kept in the dark and continued to act recklessly, convinced that my love for her gave her the right.

But I was truly tired now.

Without me, I wondered how she would continue behaving as she pleased.

I quickly packed my things, and when I returned home from the fire station, I saw Jenna’s car parked downstairs.

I was about to go upstairs when I noticed the car rocking slightly.

A flash of white passed through my mind.

I suddenly remembered that bag of lingerie.

So Jenna was really having sex with another man in the car in broad daylight?

Even if I had truly stopped hoping for anything from her, the people passing through this neighborhood were all our neighbors. If word got out—

She might have no shame, but I still had my dignity!

So I walked over and knocked on the car window.

The rocking car immediately stopped. About half a minute later, the rear window slowly lowered.

Sure enough, there were two people inside. Jenna pulled up the collar of her sweater to cover her neck completely, but I couldn’t be bothered to look.

Ethan smiled at me. “Ryan, when did you get back? Sorry about that. I just remembered there was something I hadn’t told Jenna, so we stayed in the car for a little while.”

“You wouldn’t happen to mind, would you?”

He apologized with his lips, but there wasn’t a trace of regret in his eyes. Instead, he raised his brows at me provocatively.

After several seconds of silence, I curled my lips into a faint smile.

“Why would I mind? You two were only discussing work, right?”

“I’m not unreasonable. Go ahead and keep talking. I won’t disturb you. Or would you like me to drive the car somewhere quieter and more private, so no one passing by interrupts your fun?”

Jenna’s expression instantly turned cold.

“Ryan Blake, what’s that supposed to mean? Who are you making sarcastic remarks about? Don’t think I don’t know what you’re thinking.”

“People with dirty hearts see filth everywhere!”

Dirty?

Could anyone be dirtier than her?

I gave a disdainful snort. “You know perfectly well what I mean. We’re all adults here. There’s no need to spell everything out, is there?”

With that, I turned around and left.

Behind me, I heard a car door open. Jenna had gotten out.

She clearly hadn’t expected me to react this way, and she shouted after me, “Ryan Blake, are you saying you suspect there’s something inappropriate between Ethan and me?”