“Do you call this a misunderstanding? I’m telling you now, Nathan, I will make you pay for this,” the patriarch of the Miller family roared.
I couldn’t help but get a little worried because the Millers were not one to be messed with. And if they were to take action, the Tanners would definitely be crippled by it.
Someone started to back out and was about to leave when suddenly Crystal appeared on the screen again.
She placed a pile of banknotes on the table as Benson watched. Stack upon stack of banknotes worth more than a billion was in full view. “Here you go. This one billion is the ransom money from Lyle. I’m using all of it to invest in the Millers.”
“That’s a billion. How generous of you,” Benson said.
“That’s easy money, anyway. And it’s an IOU. All it takes is a little trick from me, and Lyle was dumb enough to come up with the one billion. Had I known it’s that easy for him to get a billion, I would have asked him to redeem Yvonne with that money. But I can’t let him do that because I want to get my hands on Yvonne,” Crystal remonstrated.
“Why do you hate that woman so much? I think she’ll be screwed over by you soon enough. Why go through all the trouble to get rid of her?” Benson chuckled.
“Funny you should say that. Are you interested in that woman, Benson? Do you want me to get her to sleep with you? She must be good in bed. Otherwise, why would a man like Christopher be so protective of her?” Crystal said with a sly smile.
“No. We’re not the Lane family’s rival. Unless you’re capable of getting Lucas to submit to you.”
Lyle stared at the screen and sneered, “Is this a lie too? Is there anything else that’s true, Crystal?”
“No, Lyle. Listen to me. These are all lies. I’m being framed. It’s impossible that I would do something like this. Check it out yourself, and don’t listen to the baseless claims of others.”
Crystal was in a panic, and she no longer had the confident smile on her face. She knew that she would be doomed if she did not get herself out of this mess.
With a broken relationship and her career destroyed, that would be the end of her.
“Enough with the excuses and come clean. Is it also a lie that you slept with Benson?” Lyle raised his hand and slapped her hard across her face.
This was the first time he had ever struck her. Apart from sorrow, there wasn’t much anger left in his heart. Perhaps, this was incomparable to the heartbreak and disappointment he felt when Crystal left him back then.
Nothing could be compared to that time when he felt utterly desolated and miserable.
“You b*tch! How dare you lie to us? I even treated you like my own daughter. You shameless woman. You…” Wendy stormed up to Crystal and yanked on her hair so hard that her hair ornaments fell off her hair. Her long hair that was done up came loose. Crystal stood there in embarrassment at her disheveled state.
“Let go of me, you old hag,” Crystal cursed out loud. In return, Wendy battered Crystal with all the strength latter could muster.
“Wendy, please calm down. Crystal must have been framed. Don’t be blind-sided by others. Think about it, Crystal has always been a good person, and no one has ever said anything bad about her before. Someone must have done this out of jealousy,” Natalie reasoned as she rushed forward and tried to pull Wendy away from Crystal.
“Framed? Do you think that we are blind?” In Wendy’s eyes, Crystal was nothing but an evil witch.
“It’s true. Look, it must be Yvonne. She did all these because she’s jealous of Crystal for marrying Lyle,” Natalie roared at me when she saw me smiling with my eyes fixed on the stage.
With that said, all eyes turned to me again. I was not surprised to be dragged into the drama that unfolded in front of everyone. I remained silent and calm under everyone’s scrutiny. If they still choose to believe Crystal, then there’s not much left for me to say. Oh, how the tables have turned.
