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How dare you say such thingst” Liiban was so hilous that her mouth twisted all the way to her dark, and drool kept splùng điêm her chui
Cheryl let go in disgust and wiped her hands on Lillian’s clothes. “Your son is in emergency care at Halderwick Hospital, and her
your older kon’s hours living the good life.
“ily daughter is pregnant and still inking care of everything over there, running around trying to borrow money will you it here doing nothing you heartless old hag, you’re pure evil
Right there in front of all the neighbors, Cheryl pointed her finger right at Lillian’s nose and let her have it
The crowd watching included formei coworkers who’d had it out for her and household stall from various families. Every single one of them looked at Lillian with disgust, pointing and whispering about her.
never seen anyone so heartless,” one murmured.
“They’re both her sons, you know? You’d think she’d love them equally, but look how much she plays favorites”
“If you ask me, this is karma. Clayton’s first wife was so good to her, but she looked down on the poor get and forced her son to dvorce her for this one. “And what a prize she is–the Patel family hasn’t had a moment’s peace since she walked in.”
“What did you just say?” Cheryl’s eyes flashed dangerously, and the servant quickly backed away.
She turned her glare on Lillian. “Clayton is your son. If you don’t care about him, then I won’t bother either. But if he dies, my daughter’s baby sure as hell won’t be taking his last name.”
“You-“Lillian’s eyes widened.
“Mrs. Patel, please don’t get upset.”
upset.” The servants rushed to steady Lillian as she swayed on her feet, rubbing her chest and shoving heart medication into her mouth.
Lillian pointed a shaking finger at Cheryl, trembling all over. It took her a long moment before she could speak. “Fine. handle it. Are you happy now?”
Cheryllet out a satisfied snort, crossing her arms with a smug expression. “Your son’s legal troubles are going to cost at least 70 thousand dollars.”
Valerie had promised her 30 thousand dollars, and Cheryl needed to cover the money she’d lost gambling.
Lillian told her to wait and went into the room. With the help of a servant, Lillian settled onto the sofa and called Wyatt. “Wyatt, I need to ask you for a Гамог
When Wyatt heard that Cheryl had come to the house causing a scene, he rolled his eyes in disgust. “Tim in the middle of a business dinner. We’ll talk when I get home.”
“No, it has to be now.” Lillian was breathing heavily, gripping the armrest of the sola tightly. “Clayton made mistakes, but he’s still your blood brother. I can’t just leave him to die. I know it’s hard for you to ask Alexa for help.”
Lillian craned her neck to look out the window, where Cheryl was still complaining to the lingering neighbors about how the Patel family had no decency. The sight made the veins on Lillian’s forehead bulge with anger.
Lillian covered her phone and whispered, “Wyatt, sell my house and give Clayton 70 thousand dollars. Use whatever’s left to buy me a small apartment where Cheryl can’t find me. We’ll cut all ties with them after this.”
Wyatt pulled out a cigarette and stuck it between his lips.
Starise House wasn’t just built without shared common areas. Most of the residents were high–ranking officials, so the environment was great, the people were refined, and there were no property management fees. These units were impossible to come by.
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Before hanging up, Lillian reininded hun i to transfer the To thousand dollars to Clayton heat as emerge
When Cheryl found out that t
given the money directly to Clayton, the nearly lost her mind
Cheryl anorted, “Clayton and Valerio sie both at Haldenwick Hospital–giving them the mitey is most convenient. Did you want me to trần so you could skim half of Clayton’s lifesaving money)
The excuse was sold enough that Cheryl couldn’t really argue with it, but she wetn’t satisfied. What was the point of all that drama and effort the thought bitterly.
Clayton’s phone quickly burred with a transfer notification. He recogered the account it was Wyatt’s. Right after that, WhatsApp message from Wyatt came through.
Wyatt: Clayton, you can’t even control your wife or her mom? Mom is sick from all the stress you’ve caused her. This is the last time I’m sending you money. From now on, we’re done.“)
Clayton typed back: Wyatt, I know I messed up. I’ll get back on track as soon as possible. But when he tried to send it, he realized Wyatt had alre blocked him. The message never went through,
“Clayton! My mom told me your mother sent you money, right?” Valerie walked into the hospital room with a huge smile on her face. “Can you give me a few thousand first? I need to pay off the interest on my online loans”
Clayton’s face showed no emotion as he pushed himself up from the bed.
“Clayton?” Valerie stared at him in confusion. “What’s wrong? Did your mom say something to upset you?”
Clayton slowly walked to the door where the police officer assigned to watch Valerie was still sitting in a hallway chair.
“Could you please contact Audrey for me? Tell her I’m willing to give her 30 thousand dollars in compensation if she’ll write a letter of forgiveness for my
The officer nodded and stood up to make the call.
Valerie grabbed Clayton’s hand and said in a sweet, pleading voice, “My online loans are about to be overdue. That’s going to hurt my credit score.”
Clayton looked at her coldly. “If you go to jail, that’ll hurt your credit score even more
Valerie muttered resentfully, “We could at least offer her less money. She wasn’t even hurt. She’s just targeting me on purpose. I’m the one who got screwed over by her, and now I still have to pay the auction house fees.”
The police quickly came back with an update. “Sorry, but Ms. Henderson doesn’t want money. She just wants to press charges.”
Valerie’s face went pale. She swallowed hard and grabbed Clayton’s hand desperately. “Clayton, you have to save me. I can’t go to jail. I’m carrying your baby.”
Clayton pried her fingers off his hand and turned
ned to the officer, “Judging by her attitude, does she think the money’s too little, or is the being serious
about this?”
The officer wasn’t sure what to say. From their perspective, most people tried to smooth things of
Even though there was evidence, Audrey hadn’t actually been injured, and Clayton was willing to pay 30 thousand dollars in compensation, which seemed pretty reasonable under normal circumstances.
But there was obviously some kind of personal drama between these people, which complicated things.
“I don’t think it’s about the money, the officer said. He hadn’t even mentioned how much money they were offering when Audrey insisted on pressing charges. “Maybe you should go talk to her yourself. That would show you’re sincere.”
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Clayton thought that made sense. He wanted to talk to Aodory personally anyway to fall bar that hard finally sem valerie the cal
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Clayton believed that if he was sincere enough, he could definitely wi hack Audiny theat. They could start frech, everything could go hard to the way it. was, and they could make thelt life together work. “Tign Light now,” Clayton said as he turned to leave.
“What about me?” Valerie stamped her foot in frustration
The officer let out a cold laugh. You’re coming with me first, if your husband can get that liveness, then you can po‘
“What if he can’t get it?”
Valerie snapped.
“if he can’t, you’ll still have to post bail to guarantee you won’t run all or cause any more trouble for the victim before they decide whether to preos charges.”
When Audrey missed a step going down the stairs, he ankle twisted. She didn’t feel it at first, but the pain got worse as time went on. After icing? swelling went down, but it still hurt when she walked.
Cecilia noticed something was wrong and asked with concern. “Should we get that looked at by a doctor?”
“It’s nothing serious,” Audrey waved her off casually. This little injury was no big deal, After her father died, she’d learned self–defense and had gotten plenty of bumps and bruises.
Cecilia still looked worried and made her sit down to rest for a bit. “I heard you on the ph
phone earlier. Are you really going to sum
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