You Are The Apple of My Eyes
Chapter 369 Evidence Pointing To Jessica

Henry grabbed Adrian's collar and asked through gritted teeth, "What did you do to Vera?"

Adrian knew then that Vera did go to complain about him even though she was the one at fault.

Adrian hurriedly explained, "Look, don't listen to her nonsense. All this is..."

Henry slammed the door shut with a loud bang.

Then, he whirled around to punch Adrian in the face, grabbed his collar again, and pushed him against the wall. "I don't care how degenerate you have been in the past, but from now on, control yourself and keep that thing in your pants! You just want to have sex with anyone who wants it!"

It was the first time that Adrian had seen Henry so angry. Henry's face was as dark as ink, and his words were harsh. This outburst was uncharacteristic of him, a refined person who was as prim and proper as a man could ever be.

Adrian found himself annoyed by Henry's words. He threw back a punch at him, forcing the other man to step back.

"You're right, I have totally zero control over my own body," Adrian said deliberately to annoy Henry. He raised a hand and touched the tender, swollen part of his face where Henry's punch had landed. How hard did he actually punch him?

Did his face get disfigured?

Adrian's hand dropped, and his fury at being wronged drained out of him. He looked at the mirror to check the injury on his face.

He could see from the reflection that Henry was glaring at him, his eyes burning and the corners of his mouth red and swollen where Adrian hit him.

Adrian glanced at him and complained in a low voice, "At this point, can't you tell whether I can control my body or not?"

How could Henry wrong him without a reason?

Feeling aggrieved, Adrian turned around to stalk out of the room. However, as soon as he placed his hand on the doorknob, Henry grabbed his other hand and again pinning him against the wall using the back of his hand.

Adrian turned his face sideways so that he could breathe and struggled to get free. "Henry, what the fuck are you doing?"

Silence answered Adrian, and then a weight is pushing down on his chest. The chaotic cadence of Henry's breathing was familiar.

Worried about Nina, Noah escorted her back to her apartment near L University.

As soon as Nina entered the apartment, she turned on her computer and, in front of Noah, hacked into the security system of the hotel to access all surveillance videos.

Noah's eyes narrowed, and he watched Nina's focused, serious side for a few moments. Then, he directed his look at the computer screen before them. A laptop screen couldn't show all viewing angles properly, and the screen looked very crowded.

"Do you have another computer?" Noah pulled out a chair and sat beside her.

Nina blinked her eyes. She had forgotten that Noah was still there. Did he see everything she did just now?

"Noah..." Nina turned to look at him, unspeaking.

Noah seemed to be able to read her mind at a single glance. He smiled and said, "Don't think too much. Do you have a spare computer? Send some cuts to me."

When she saw that Noah didn't seem to be bothered by what he saw, Nina shot him a glance full of gratitude and said, "Yes, you can use this."

She pushed the computer toward Noah, took off the necklace and bracelet that she was wearing, and assembled the jewelry pieces into a watch. She pressed a button, and a large virtual screen appeared in front of her.

Noah was shocked for a second and then smiled.

"Wow. You're so cool, Nini."

"You flatter me too much, Noah," Nina smiled. Then, she transferred two-thirds of the images to the virtual screen.

Nina was responsible for all monitoring images in the banquet hall, while Noah checked the monitoring footage from other areas.

The two of them stared at the screen carefully. Monitoring from the beginning of the banquet, they scrutinized every strange behavior they saw on the screen.

On the screen, Nina saw Jessica stop a waiter. She remembered John drunk the contents in the glass the waiter was holding.

"I think I've found it," Nina commented with a frown.

Noah seemed to think that he had, too. He clicked on a video of Vivian standing in front of the elevator and enlarged the shot in front of Nina.

Nina and Noah saw Vivian take the elevator to find Jessica. Then, Jessica pulled her to the door of John's suite and then turned around to leave.

"Jessica." Noah spoke first, and his face revealed a conflicted expression.

Nina quietly stared at the scene, and it was difficult to tell by looking at her face whether she was angry or not. "Somebody tampered with the wine that John drank. The waiter didn't dare mess around with the wine source because that would be problematic. The entire time, Jessica was the only other person who touched John's wine glass."

Nina replayed the video footage for a few times and finally concluded that all of the evidence pointed to Jessica.

"Jessica likes your sister very much and has always wanted her to marry my husband." Nina felt a thorn in her heart.

She didn't give a damn about the opinions of other people and couldn't care less whether they accepted her or not. However, Jessica was different.

Jessica was John's sister and Nina's sister-in-law. They should be a family.

Jessica positively doted on her brother, and their relationship had always been good since they were kids. Nina heard about them from James.

Nina even contemplated whether she should try to win over Jessica and make the woman accept her.

Now, Nina no longer wanted to.

How could Jessica herself send another woman to her husband's bed?

"Nini..." Noah started, trying to comfort her.

"It's okay, Noah," Nina interrupted him, turning off both the laptop and the virtual screen. She forced a smile on her face and murmured, "Noah, I'm tired." "Have a good rest, then." Understanding what Nina meant, Noah stood up and went out.

However, he didn't leave. Instead, he stood by Nina's door for quite some time, even after all sounds of movement from inside the room had ceased.

Noah knew what was on Nina's mind. She couldn't deal with Jessica because of her personal relationship with the woman. Nina needed to consider John's feelings.

Noah didn't leave until the apartment was completely silent.

When he was outside the building, he stopped and looked up. Nina's apartment was dark.

Nina had already turned off the lights-she must have fallen asleep.

She threw the quilt over her head, but even then, she couldn't fall asleep with her eyes closed. That image of John and Vivian sleeping in the same bed was seared into her mind. Nina knew that it was not John's fault. She knew that someone was behind all this, and she couldn't just let this go.

Restlessly, Nina turned over. Her phone suddenly rang.

John was calling her.

A faint light shone in the dark room. Nina stared at the phone for a while and then averted her head. John called her twice. She felt that she should give John a chance to make amends.

He was also a victim of this instrument.

Nina picked up her phone and was about to answer it, but the other party had already hung up.

"Huh?" She drew down the quilt and sat up on the bed, waiting for the next call, but it never came.

Nina gripped her phone hard.

Why did he stop trying to call her after only two missed calls?

Couldn't he call her a third time?

She would have answered the third one.

After waiting for a while, Nina still did not get a third phone call.

She threw the phone away from her, covered her face with the quilt, and lay still.

An inexplicable sadness filled her heart, as something she had been holding in her hand had crumbled to dust.

Every woman would be angry if she saw her husband lying next to another woman, and her leaving the scene in her anger would have been inevitable. Then, the woman's husband would follow her out to explain.

Not only did John not come out, he only tried to call her twice and then no more.

Nina bit her lip, feeling totally wronged. Against her will, her eyes started filling up with tears, but her mind told herself to sleep.

She had no idea that John was on his way there.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐