There was once a time he used to be a famous and influential person in Merchant City. After he conspired against Bethan and Brettley, his family degenerated to the point he had to flee to Saigen City and became a no–name man.
He regretted it deeply, but most importantly, he was scared. At this moment, he finally knew what he did wrong. Other than Kate who did not give a shit about him, there was no one else he could get help from.
He bit his lip and spoke humbly, “Ms. Miller, I…I’ll do anything that you request, so please help me. I can’t let Brettley and Thomas catch me. After all the things I did in the past…they’ll kill me!”
Kate cackled upon hearing the evidently afraid Malcolm. “You know this would happen, so why did you do it? If you weren’t cruel to them, they wouldn’t have attempted to find you and kill you when you ran away here. You asked for this.”
Malcolm was stunned. After a while, he curled up his lips and smiled.
“That’s right, I ask for this myself. However… Ms. Miller, I hope you think about it for yourself too. You also did many things to Brettley, Luke, and the others…so your ending won’t be any better than mine.”
From their conversation and Kate’s tone, Malcolm could tell Kate did not care about him at all. She never treated him as a partner. To her, he was not even worthy to be her subordinate or her dog.
At this rate, he did not need to please her anymore.
“I had only offended Brettley, Bethan, and perhaps Thomas too, but you, Kate Miller? You offended Luke, Brettley, and everyone else. I’m eager to see your ending.”
After that, he hung up the phone.
“You’re right,” a deep yoice sounded from behind him when the phone was disconnected.
“This voice…’ Malcolm felt chills all over his body. He looked up.
The man before him was none other than Brettley dressed in all black. There was snow on his shoulder which showed he had been standing there for a long time.
Malcolm had been monitoring the movement at the mansion. Never once had he thought about looking back
“JO…Brettley…”
His face turned pale.
He stood up as his survival instinct kicked in.
He tried to run away, but after squatting in the snow for too long, his legs were stiff and cold. There was no escaping for him. Thump! He fell into the snow.
“You shouldn’t have come here,”
Brettley said.
Looking at how rugged and pitiful Malcolm was, Brettley smirked and looked at the man from a condescending angle. “Kate is a cold–blooded person. After accompanying Luke for more than a year, she could still do such a cruel thing to him when she liked him so much. Do you think she’d pity you and treasure you?”
His eyes gleamed as he ordered the people beside him, “Take him away.”
“Sir.”
Lucas furrowed his brow. “He had just planned an accident to kill Ms. Larson. We can totally report him to the police!”
Brettley waved his hand and left. “No. Don’t send him to the police yet. I still need him.”
The sun rose into the sky from the east and woke up the earth. It was a brand new day. Denise woke up and looked at the ceiling when she opened her eyes. Everything that happened yesterday appeared right before her eyes like a movie. At that moment, someone knocked on her door.
Along with that came her mother’s kind, tender votce. “Denise, are you awake? The first time we did after we woke up was to get you brother to bring you home. He told us you came back last night. How are you today?”
She had mixed feelings as she listened to her mother’s soft and gentle voice. She could not help but remember the recording she heard from Bethan and Gwen’s hotel room.
They literally said to let her die. They said she was no longer useful to the family and that she was a disposable pawn. They even said they wanted to use her to beg for mercy with Brettley and Thomas and begged them not to stop the cooperation.
It was at this moment that she felt the dam breaking inside of her. She covered her mouth to stifle her sobs as tears formed.
Outside the door, her mother was still continuing to talk. Back in the past, she would often feel safe and happy to hear that voice. However, it became so unfamiliar and so fake.
She bit her lips and closed her eyes. This time, she swore that she would not be soft–hearted and would show no mercy. She wanted to seek justice for herself and do one last thing for her brother–the right thing! “Denise?”
Since there was no response from the room, Mrs. Hughes mumbled, “She hasn’t woken up? That can’t be… Her biological clock has always been very routine since she was a child.”
As she mumbled to herself, Mrs. Hughes left the place. When she was sure her mother had left, she pulled the blanket over her body and wept quietly.
For the 20 years living in the family, she had always thought she was the real young miss of the family and she was proud of her identity. She always bragged to the others that she had a kind and understanding mother, an upright father, and a gentle brother. All of them treated her like a princess and loved her.
This ended yesterday. After the recording, she finally knew the only person who treated her as a family was Steven. The others only thought of her as a pawn.
Suddenly, her laptop beeped. The turn–on sound stopped Denise from crying. She opened up the blanket and looked at her monitor with amazement.
The laptop got turned on when no one else even touched it.
Not only was it turned on, but the mouse cursor was also moving. She got scared and nearly shrieked out of fear.
After a while, she managed to calm down. She climbed on her bed toward the laptop.
Suddenly, a chatting application was opened and logged in to an account. Subsequently, a chat room opened up.
Someone by the name of ‘Nigel’ was messaging her.
[Nigel: Don’t worry. I’m not a bad person.]
[Nigel: Your phone is not with you, so this is the only way I can reach you.]
[Nigel: Let me introduce myself. I’m the eldest son of Brettley Morrison and Bethan, and my name is Nigel.]
Denise looked at the message in bewilderment. She walked over there carefully and replied to Nigel.
[Denise: You…]
[Denise: What do you want?]
Nigel’s reply came almost instantaneously.
[Nigel: Don’t worry, neither of my parents knows about me contacting you. I just wanted to tell you some of the stuff I’ve heard about you.]
Denise’s entire body froze when she saw this. A split second later, something struck her…
The audio recording of Steven and Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, which she had heard from Bethan’s computer, had come from one of Brettley and Bethan’s children.
Therefore, this boy that contacted her…was probably none other than that skilled hacker son of theirs.
At the thought of this, Denise quickly typed another reply. [Denise: What have you heard about me?]
[Nigel: Plenty of interesting stuff, but I will only tell you under one condition.] [Denise: What condition is it?] [Nigel: You have to promise not to lay another finger on little Riley.]
Denise was silent for a moment when she saw this.
[Denise: Is that it?] [Nigel: Yes. I’ve been keeping an eye on Riley all this while for fear that something bad would happen to her, so when you tried to steal Riley but was stopped by your brother last night, I saw everything. I don’t know what’s happening between you adults, but I sincerely hope you won’t try to harm Riley again.] [Nigel: I’ve already contacted Uncle Thomas, and he’s already on his way to Saigen City. If you promise to hand Riley over to him, I’ll tell you everything I know.]
Denise furrowed her brow at this.
[Denise: Is that it?]
She thought this little rascal would have asked her for something ludicrous, but to her surprise, all he wanted was for her to hand Riley over.
To be frank, this was not a difficult condition for her at all.
Previously, according to her and Tina’s plan, they intended to kidnap Riley and use her as a hostage to threaten Thomas and Yannie. However, after discovering the Hughes family and Tina’s true colors, she quickly gave up on this idea.
The reason she had gone ahead and taken Riley from the hospital…was not because she wanted to threaten Thomas and Yannie but because she did not want to burn her one and only bridge.
She knew that she had committed plenty of unforgivable mistakes, and all she wanted to do was make Thomas owe her a favor so that he would show her mercy in the future.
Therefore, it was not impossible for her to agree to Nigel’s terms, and besides…
Even if Steven had taken Riley away the night before and kept her under his care, she would not be 100% safe. After all, Steven was still a part of the Hughes family, and since Mr. and Mrs. Hughes had been watching Denise all the while, she would not be surprised if they had been doing the same for Steven. According to their greedy natures, they would try to steal Riley when they found out she was with Steven.
If that happened, things would take a turn for the worse.
All Denise wanted was for Thomas and Yannie to owe her a favor, not to create enemies.
Therefore, handing Riley over to Brettley was not only the best option for Riley but a reasonable choice for both her and Steven.
Seeing that Denise was taking such a long time to reply, Nigel furrowed his brow and quickly typed another message.
[Nigel: What’s wrong? Are you not willing to accept these terms? Well, if you don’t want to, I shall destroy those recordings right now.] [Denise: Please don’t!]
The chime of the notification had finally broken Denise out of her stupor. She paused, then typed a reply.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.