Lock You In My Heart novel Chapter 340

To some extent, Gabrielle talked some sense into Mindy.

After all, there was no denying the fact that Mindy was a more well-known icon than Gabrielle. And without doubt, Mindy's being the rightful Miss Carter from the influential Carter family and Gabrielle's being an adopted daughter of the Jones family made a difference between them both.

They were both known, though contrastingly if Gabrielle was known at all.

"We just require your apology, Gabrielle. Apologize to Cherie, and you won't be bothered anymore." Mindy hardly bit back her anger. As a lady from a rich family, her image didn't support her lashing out at Gabrielle, something she desperately wanted to do. Instead, she kept blazing flares from her eyes in rage.

"Apologize?" Gabrielle sneered at the impossibility of the demand.

"Be quick, Gabrielle. We're not here for you to test our patience with your insolent behavior."

"I am sorry if I heard you wrong, but why should I apologize?" Gabrielle narrowed her eyes. "The shop assistant is the one supposed to apologize. It has nothing to do with me. And," Gabrielle's eyes darkened as she spoke, yet calmness was unmistakable on her face. "Mind your tone, Mindy."

"Oh," Mindy sounded irked, not amused by Gabrielle's attitude. "You've found another hookup, didn't you? Did Westley fail to satisfy your unending dirty desires? Because it seems like it. The reason you're out here trying to satisfy your lust with some other guy now. You really are a slut." Gabrielle flinched at Mindy's misuse of words, but it encouraged Mindy's schemes. "Aren't you afraid that I'll expose you?" Looking at the man standing a bit out of hearing, Mindy threatened Gabrielle in a low and harsh tone.

Gabrielle was a person that unintentionally kept pricking Mindy, annoying her to her limits. 'First, she married Westley, and now, she is even capable of seducing another handsome guy.

Is her lust not satisfied that she's reaching out for more?'

'Seducing another guy?! Is Mindy out of her mind?!' Gabrielle was baffled by Mindy's dirty assumptions.

Though what Mindy had said angered Gabrielle, still, such harsh words hurt her to her core.

'Mindy surely doesn't think before speaking baseless rubbish.'

"Mind your words, Mindy. Do you even care about what you're saying?" Gabrielle didn't hide the coldness of her voice or her face.

But, as if catching the prey from the right spot, Mindy smiled, sensing Gabrielle's discomfort.

Encouraged by Gabrielle's distress, Mindy connived. 'Even hooking up behind Westley's back, Gabrielle has seduced a good-looking man. Westley has got to know about her true face as soon as possible.'

Mindy felt the hardly controlled urge to scream Gabrielle's actual busyness to Westley. 'Betrayers like her don't deserve the love of men like Westley.'

"Yes, I know what I am saying, and I know that I am right. Now don't try to deny that you didn't come out to delight another guy in Westley's absence." Mindy mistook Gabrielle's anger as her shameful silence. "Don't worry, Gabrielle. Just apologize to Cherie, and I'll forget that I even saw you today," Mindy said with arrogance.

She felt like she was holding Gabrielle's most vulnerable secret and was keeping her captive with it. Mindy was well prepared to snitch on her to Westley if Gabrielle remained ignorant.

'Gabrielle will lose all the respect she has and she will be thrown out by Westley.

Even the Jones family won't dare to take her back in. And then the rest of her life will be spent, wandering the streets.'

The imagination of Gabrielle's miserable demise unexplainably overjoyed Mindy.

"And what if I don't?" Daring Mindy's groundless threat, Gabrielle raised her eyebrows.

She wasn't going to be sorry towards Cherie for something she didn't even do.

'Cherie has no right to ask me to apologize!'

"It's your choice then. Don't blame me for exposing your little casual flings. I will tell everyone that you cheated on Westley, and then no one will save you when the Morris family casts you out. Everyone will know that a married woman who cheated on her husband has no place in the Jones family or even the Carter family. And the public's rebuking will be high around you too by then." Mindy wore the smuggest smile she could muster.

"Mindy," suddenly, Cherie cut in. "Let's not fuss over it. I will forget what happened today, and since Miss Jones desires that dress, I will gift i

t to her. After all, I don't wear things that others even try on." The unstoppable altercation of Mindy and Gabrielle forced Cherie to show her generosity.

Yet, hidden under the layer of benevolence, Gabrielle felt the bitterness of Cherie's objective.

Cherie didn't deem herself too ordinary to wear something that had been tried on by others.

But what her words actually conveyed was that since the dress was particularly worn by someone as filthy as Gabrielle, it became dirty enough for her not to wear it.

"Your kindness is lovely, Miss Bennet, but I don't need this gift. This dress looks too old and doesn't fit me either." Right after finishing her words, Gabrielle stomped towards the fitting room and changed back to her clothes.

Coming out of the room, she handed the dress to the shop manager and asked her to pack it up. All the while, Gabrielle didn't spare the disturbing duo a single glance.

As silently as he was during the conversation, Jackson stepped forward to pay the bill, watching Gabrielle on the counter. Passing by Mindy and Cherie, he eyed them coldly.

"If you wish your life to be longer, mind your own concerns."

He threw a glare towards Mindy.

Pissed off by being dishonored, Mindy rushed towards Jackson's front and blocked him from moving further. "Hi, handsome." She clenched her teeth before going further. "Let me remind you something for your beauty should remember it."

"What?" Jackson's face was empty of any emotions besides coldness as he looked down at Mindy.

And Mindy was hardly keeping her mind off his handsomeness and apathy.

"Do you know that Gabrielle is married?" Mindy used a solemn tone, careful that maybe the man in front of her didn't know that the woman he was with was already married.

'Gabrielle is married?'

Jackson's mind whirled with shock. Although he didn't care much about Gabrielle's personal matters and wouldn't bother to determine whether the woman before him was telling the truth, he was sure about one thing - people in their right mind wouldn't make fun of such a delicate matter, let alone the woman talking was Gabrielle's cousin.

Jackson's frown of surprise that he forgot to hide led Mindy to believe that he must have been kept in dark from Gabrielle's marriage. "Seems like she hid her marriage from you. Alas, you fell into her traps of lies and her bad character!"

'Of course, married women filthily pretend to be single when they try to find a better substitute than their husbands.'

"So? What should I do if she's married?" Jackson's lack of interest was wearing Mindy's calmness off.

He said it as if he didn't care at all. And this was undoubtedly true. Unlike Mindy, he wasn't interested in gossip or someone's life's internal matters. And since Gabrielle didn't make her marriage public, there was a solid enough reason for that.

"Do you..." Mindy was speechless at the indifference of the man in front of her. "Really don't care?" Nevertheless, her evil brain found something that only seemed relatable to her. "Or maybe, are you married too? You must be..."

Without bearing to digest another word from Mindy's foul mouth, Jackson turned to leave.

Disbelief settled over Mindy as her words stopped at her tongue, looking at Jackson's cold figure looming away.

"What are your opinions about their relationship, Cherie?" Mindy asked, turning her incredulous stare towards Cherie.

"They can be anything you want to think them to be, Mindy," Cherie said, glancing at the couple getting away from them.

'Jackson paid Gabrielle's bill, obviously buying her the dress.

Does that not ring any bells?

That's a must. They must have an affair.'

"Gabrielle is like a whore's reincarnation, stepping away from one man to seduce the other. I am going to inform Lance as soon as I can." Thinking of the possibility of their affair, Mindy was enraged.

"Just leave it, Mindy. Let her do all she wants. Her desires have nothing to do with us." Cherie still didn't stop her pretense of generosity and kindness.

"I don't need you to tell me that! I will tell my brother about it anyway." Mindy's eyes still blazed as she said, "Where is your dress?" Before getting an answer from Cherie, Mindy's eyes automatically found the shop manager.

"I don't want it... It's unclean now that someone else has tried it on," Cherie said coldly, blankly staring at the dress still in the hands of the shop manager.