He stared intently at Tina and enunciated carefully, “My mother and Brettley’s mother, Rianne, are twin sisters, so what do you think that makes us?”
Tina’s eyes widened in shock.
Brettley…was Thomas’ biological cousin? That crazy Rianne…was Brettley’s mother? How could she have carried such an intelligent man in her womb? “If I remember correctly, you had at one point bullied my Aunt Rianne just like how you did to my mother, right?”
The color drained from Tina’s face.
She bit her lip, and her entire body began to shake like a leaf.иσν???вσσк.￠σмShe…had indeed done bad things to Rianne in the past.
Rianne and Eanne were identical twins.
After she first slept with Senior Howard after rendering him drunk, she trotted over to Eanne’s place, intending to taunt her with this.
However, at that time, she did not know that Eanne had a twin sister, so she had mistaken Rianne for Eanne, who was pretending to be a lunatic on purpose and blinded her in one eye by accident.
She suffered nightmares of this event for a long time after that, but gradually, as she committed many more heinous crimes, she forgot about this incident.
As Thomas brought this up, her entire body broke out in cold sweats as she remembered all the blood pouring out of that woman’s eye.
“I guess you do remember.”
Thomas curled his lips into a smirk when he saw Tina’s face turning pale.
“Well, I told Brettley about you blinding my Aunt Rianne, so he was willing to come over to Saigen City and throw you into prison himself, even without the promise of money.However…”
He sighed.
“I never thought you’d be so cruel as to kill that old geezer.”
“Why are you so surprised?”
Tina sneered at him.
“Since Carl had the guts to leave everything to you in his will, why are you so surprised that I had the guts to kill him and take back what’s rightfully mine?”
A glimmer of malice crossed her face as she snarked, “After Eanne died, he was in such a slump that all he did for a long time was drink and drink nonstop.
If it weren’t for me, if I hadn’t dragged Howard Group back from the edge of bankruptcy, he wouldn’t even be where he was! “He can’t take away my credit for helping him, can he? How dare he dismiss me with just a small bungalow and a branch of the company? иσν???вσσк.￠σмSince when have you ever cared about Howard Group when you’ve been living your life as a movie star all this while? “I thought that since he never seemed to care about you all these years, and you never once came home to visit him, the two of you would’ve drifted apart, but even until his death, he still chose to leave everything to you!
“If I didn’t do anything and instead waited around while the two of you made up, I’d get nothing!”
She grew even more determined as she continued, “Thomas, remember that I was the one who single- handedly saved Howard Group after your mother died! Even if I get arrested, you can’t deny my sacrifices and take everything yourself! You have to leave something for me–it’s what I deserve!”
Thomas could not help chuckling when he heard this.
“You were the one who saved Howard Group single-handedly after my mother died, you say?” he scoffed.
“Have you somehow forgotten how she died? You and Carl were the ones who had killed her! If it weren’t for you, Howard Group wouldn’t even have ended up on the brink of bankruptcy in the first place!
“Howard Group was prospering at its peak when my mother reigned; you were the ones who had pitched everything into darkness in the first place! How dare you brag about your ‘sacrifices ‘and demand that I give you your reward? How shameless are you, Tina?”
The color drained from Tina’s face.
“Don’t worry.”
Thomas scoffed once more.
“After I walk out of here, I’ll help Brettley gather more evidence of your wrongdoing, including how you and Carl murdered my mother, how you blinded my Aunt Rianne, and how you killed your own husband…
“I won’t rest until I gather every piece of evidence to put you in jail! “
With that, he shot Dan, who was cowering behind Tina, a cold look and added, “You, too.I’ll make sure you get the punishment you deserve, like your mother.”
With that, he turned, grabbed hold of Yannie’s hand, and stomped out of the building.
After getting into the car, Thomas furrowed his brow as he suddenly recalled something.
“Yannie, do you think I seem to have forgotten someone else? Like Denise?
Silence blanketed the atmosphere.
Yannie bit her lip and stared at Thomas, her face pale as she asked tentatively, “What do you mean? Are you talking about…what she did to you with Tina yesterday?
“Well, if you are…I think you should indeed get your revenge on her too.”
Yannie still had no idea how she would go about dealing with this.
She had lost sleep the night before, trying to figure out if she should tell Thomas the truth. Therefore, she did not know that Thomas had already put two and two together, nor did she know that Bethan had already told him the truth.
At this thought, she paused for a moment and said, “Actually…”
“You don’t have to continue hiding anything from me; I know everything.”
Thomas sighed and gently clasped her hand. “After we were separated yesterday, I called Bethan, and she told me the truth.”
He sighed and continued, “I know…I know that Denise and I did unspeakable things during the period of time my memory blanked out. Is that right?”
Yannie bit her lip, staring at Thomas dazedly as tears slid down her cheeks.
She stared at him for a long time, unsure what to say.
She did not know how she was supposed to react to this, nor how she could express her feelings.
“I’m sorry you have to put up with this.”
Thomas sighed when he met her gaze. “You knew full well what had happened, and yet, you had to pretend that I had slept with you instead…
“I don’t know how you truly feel, but if I were in your shoes…”
He tightened his grip on her hand. “If I were you, I could never bring myself to do this, and even if I did, I’d be in agony.
“I’m sorry you had to go through this, Yannie, sq…”
He paused for a moment. “If you want to leave me, I won’t stop you, and if you want to take Riley with you, I’ll respect your decision, too.
“All I want is for you to promise me that we’ll still keep in touch, and I’ll still be able to see you and Riley from time to time… That’s all I want.”
This was the only thing he could do to make it up to Yannie.
He was a loyal and devoted person, so he knew just how agonizing this event could be; he did not have the right to ask Yannie to choose him when he had violated the loyalty of their relationship.
If staying by his side was too hard for her, he was willing to grant her and Riley freedom.
Yannie could not stop her tears from falling. It was as though his words had removed the stopper that was blocking her tears from falling all this while.
She slumped in his arms, sobbing. “I don’t want to leave you, but every time I think about what happened, every time I imagine you and Denise…”
She sniffed. “No matter how hard I try, I really cannot convince myself to accept what happened.
“I still love you, Thomas, and of course I love Riley, but I…I can’t force myself to accept something like this… I don’t know what I should do… What do you think I should do?”
Thomas narrowed his eyes at this. “I’ll make Denise pay the price for this.”
Yannie’s entire body stiffened upon hearing this. She lifted her head to stare at him, intending to say something, but no words came out.
If this happened to her in the past, she would have begged Thomas to show Denise some mercy, but at this moment, she felt that Denise deserved to be punished.
She recalled what happened at Howard Mansion the day before.
At that time, after Tina and Senior Howard left for the hospital, Yannie begged Denise for mercy as her men dragged Thomas into the room. She even got on both knees to beg her. Please don’t do this. When Thomas finds out about this, he won’t stop at anything to get revenge.”
However, Denise merely stared at her triumphantly and said, “Is that so? Do you think you know Thomas better than I do? You’re right; if he finds out I slept with him without his permission, he’ll be irate. Though. “
She squatted so she would be at eye level with Yannie and lifted her chin, forcing Yannie to stare right into her cold gaze. “It’ll be an entirely different thing altogether when I get pregnant with his child.
“Have you forgotten? The only reason Thomas chose to be with you is because you got pregnant and gave birth to that nasty little baby. Why else would he want to be with someone like you?”
Yannie froze when she recalled this, then turned to stare at Thomas. “Thomas, I have something to ask you.”
“Sure.”
Thomas let go of her, pulled himself back, and stared intently into her eyes. “I’m listening.”
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