In the interrogation room, Sebastian sat down with his legs crossed, his face hidden under the brim of his cap.His subordinate finished strapping Jeff to the electric chair.
Jeff roared hoarsely, “Let me go! Let! Me! Go!” His voice and body were trembling.
“Enough with the bullshit.Who helped you get out of prison?” Sebastian looked at his subordinate meaningfully, hinting at him to take action.
Jeff was no stranger to the horrors of this electric chair and was one again scared out of his wits.
“I don‘t know! When I was still in prison, only one person came to visit me.She said she was Natalie‘s friend and told me that Natalie had hired someone to fuck me up in prison.That‘s all, okay? I don‘t know anything else.Please let me go!”
“I‘ve asked the prison guard.No one has visited you.”
“Do you really think I‘d lie right now? I‘m telling you the truth!” Jeff insisted desperately.
Sebastian frowned.
“Okay, then what did the woman look like?”
“A brunette with shoulder–length hair and dressed in business attire.She looked beautiful, and more importantly, she looked rich.Oh, and there was a mole above her left eyebrow.That‘s all I can tell you.” . Sebastian fell silent.
Jeff‘s description pointed to one woman–Charis.
Without saying anything more, Sebastian stood up abruptly and left the interrogation room. Now, he understood everything. The pieces of the puzzle were coming together. If Charis was the mastermind behind everything that had happened, then everything made sense.
Back in Seacisco where everything started, the only family that was powerful enough to do all those things without leaving a trace was the Turners. And the Turner family had some connections in Barnes as well.
Although it couldn‘t compare to how many connections they had in Seacisco, money made the world go round. It wouldn‘t have been hard for Charis to clean up her trail.
Sebastian had thought that Charis would stop after he warned her, but he was wrong. He was ruthless to anyone who crossed the line, even if the culprit was his former classmate and partner.
When Sebastian got home, Natalie immediately stood up and approached him.
“Did Jeff say anything?” she asked anxiously. Her big, bright eyes were filled with worry. After what had happened today, she lost her appetite for shopping.
She absent–mindedly wandered around the mall with Elizabeth for a while and then went back home empty handed. “Yes.
Somebody helped him get out of jail. It was Charis.”
Sebastian shrugged off his coat and put his arm around Natalie‘s shoulders.
“I have to go back to Seacisco for a few days.” Natalie frowned slightly. Hearing Charis‘s name, she couldn‘t say she was surprised.
“Does she really hate me that much?” Charis had tried to destroy her relationship with Sebastian, but she had already married Sebastian and everyone knew it. It had been so long, Natalie thought that Charis had given up on Sebastian already
“She was never fickle when it came to relationships, but even I never thought she‘d do all these horrible things,” Sebastian said in a low voice. The way she tackled her relationships was the same as how she tackled business–she‘d do everything she had to just to achieve her goals.
“You know her well, don‘t you?” Natalie stuck out her lower lip, glancing at Sebastian aggrievedly. Then she stopped in her tracks and got frustrated at herself. She was already married to Sebastian. Why was she jealous? She took a deep breath and calmed herself down.
“You two have known each other a long time. Will you let her go?”
“If she goes unpunished, she‘ll only take it as encouragement to keep going further. You‘ve been in danger so many times. First, the car accident. Then the kidnapping. Maybe she was behind all those. What‘s terrible about all these is that she never has to get her own hands dirty. She uses others to do her dirty work and then they take the fall.” Sebastian‘s tone grew gloomy and his eyes darkened.
“She has tried to hurt you too many times. I refuse to let her go so easily.” Enveloped in Sebastian‘s arms, Natalie felt the hairs on her neck stand on end.
There was no enmity between her and Charis, but Charis had tried to hurt her so many times just to get Sebastian back. Sebastian packed some documents and flew back to Seacisco. At the same time, he ordered his men in Barnes to investigate Jeff‘s early release. It turned out that he was right.
Charis had pulled some strings and got Jeff out. Charis had bribed someone working in the prison to delete the surveillance video of her visit there. Sebastian reported it to the police and the police had their best technicians restore the video.
When the footage was restored, they were all sent to Sebastian‘s computer. When Sebastian‘s private plane landed in Seacisco, he went straight to the Turner family with the evidence in tow.
After baiting Jeff to the shopping mall, Charis asked her men to wait in the area. If things went well, Jeff should be able to succeed. But things didn‘t go as planned.
Less than an hour had passed when her subordinate called her to report that Jeff had been caught and taken away by Sebastian and his men.
Upon hearing this, Charis‘s heart leaped to her throat. She didn‘t say anything and hung up directly. Without a second to lose, she immediately went back to her apartment in Barnes and began to pack up her things. She had a bad feeling about this and couldn‘t help but tremble in fear as she packed. Why was Sebastian in the mall with his men? When she was done packing, she immediately called her father.
“Dad, I‘m heading home. Has anything happened recently?” Charis hadn‘t called Luke in a long time. Luke was happy to hear from his daughter and said in a cheerful tone, “Nothing much has happened while you were gone. You coming home already?”
“Yeah, I‘ll be back by today. Bye, Dad,” Charis said with a smile, sighing with relief.
In the Turner family home in Seacisco, as soon as Charis stepped foot inside the house, she found that the atmosphere was depressing. As usual, she tried joking with the servants.
“What‘s going on today? You all look weird!”
The servants smiled awkwardly at her and then busied themselves with their work. Shrugging it off, Charis turned towards the living room and instantly froze. She saw Sebastian sitting on the sofa opposite to Luke, who had a long, gloomy face. All the color drained from Charis‘s face. She turned around and was about to make a break for it, but was stopped by Sebastian‘s men.
“Miss Turner, please have a seat.” She didn‘t expect that Sebastian would go to her father. Biting her lower lip, she sat down next to Luke. Luke didn‘t look so good. Sebastian had told him everything. Sebastian laid the evidence neatly on the table. His tone was calm, but his words packed a punch.
“Miss Turner, you‘re much capable than I have known you to be.” With balled up fists, Charis didn‘t dare to look in Sebastian‘s eyes.
She wanted to defend herself, but she stopped on second thought. She knew that she couldn‘t fool Sebastian and making excuses for herself would do her no good.
“I… I don‘t know what you are talking about,” Charis said as calmly as she could manage, lowering her head.
As she spoke, a single teardrop of desperation rolled down her cheek. She now knew that she would never have a chance to be with Sebastian. Although she had expected that this might happen, she couldn‘t face it calmly. Sebastian had no feelings for her, and she knew this all along.
But she couldn‘t bear for him to know about her vicious side. Perhaps now, after knowing about everything she had done, Sebastian could only see her as a vicious woman. Sebastian‘s sharp eyes seemed to pierce into her very soul.
“Were you involved in all the incidents that put Natalie‘s life in danger?” Charis subconsciously shrank, as though all the strength had left her body. She smiled bitterly and said in a shaky voice, “Natalie… Natalie doesn‘t deserve you!”
She decided she had nothing to lose and bared her heart in front of Sebastian. She still believed that she had planned and handled everything perfectly. Sebastian should‘ve never found out it was her! Sebastian didn‘t say anything at first. He simply stood up and strode towards her ominously.
All of a sudden, his hands shot out and grabbed Charis by the neck. His eyes were filled with an anger that Charis had never seen before. “Say that again, I dare you!”
“Uh! Ah! Sebastian—! Let go of me!” Charis tried to scream but it got stuck in her throat. Her face turned purple from the lack of oxygen. She struggled and kicked, crying
“Dad! Help me! Dad?!”
Sebastian was by no means a weak man. He could‘ve snapped Charis‘s neck without breaking a sweat.
Frightened out of his wits, Luke stood up immediately to protect his daughter.
“Mr. Larson, calm down! Let‘s talk about this!” He tried his best to pull Sebastian‘s arm away but in vain. Catherine happened to come downstairs at this time. When she saw this scene, she was so frightened that she screamed. Her usual elegant and easy–
going manner vanished instantly.
She rushed to help her daughter and shouted, “Brandon, do you know what you‘re doing?! You are not allowed to hurt my daughter in her own home!”
