Chapter 217
Xavier gasped for air, the air around him feeling as heavy as a boulder pressing do
down on his chest.
“I can’t die Xavier thought desperately. I’ve fought so hard to get this far, even got my only brother killed. I can’t just die like this.
Maybe it was shoe determination that kept him going, but just as Xavier felt like he was one step away from death, he finally found the medication on him.
After taking the pills, it took a while for him to catch his breath. Only then did he yank the sack off his head.
The dim streetlights flickered in the pitch–black alley. Other than that, there wasn’t even a rat around, let alone another person.
Xavier finally realized he’d been set up.
“Who could it be?” Xavier wondered. ‘Did he just want to rough me up or was there something else going on?
Xavier didn’t dare stick around, afraid that whoever attacked him might double back. He knew he might not get off so easily next time..
When he got back, Xavier didn’t dare tell anyone what had happened. The only thing he could be thankful for was that the attacker had avoided his face. At least on the surface, he looked perfectly fine.
But the pain all over his body made it hard for Xavier to even walk straight
Austin didn’t care what happened to Xavier afterward. He could easily imagine Xavier was angry and frustrated, but didn’t dare make a fuss about it. After teaching Xavier a lesson, there was still another mastermind behind all this, someone who wasn’t from the Bennett Family, Yvonne.
While Austin was scheming how to deal with Yvonne, Emily had caught wind of some movement from Lydia.
After tossing out the bait, Emily had been waiting for Lydia to bite. She hadn’t expected Lydia to keep her cool for this long, holding out until now. But Lydia’s moves just left Emily scratching her head.
There was a sudden large cash withdrawal from Lydia’s account.
Alter taking out the money, Lydia brought her bodyguards and the cash to the mall, where they wandered around for an hour. But after that, nothing else happened.
Yet once they returned home, the cash had completely vanished as if it had disappeared without a trace
Meanwhile, the people watching Cale reported that he suddenly had a huge amount of cash and was splurging at the casino.
Emily didn’t believe that the money just appeared out of thin air. She immediately had someone look closely into Cale’s movements and discovered that he got a lot of money the day after he visited a mall.
And that mall just happened to be the same one where Lydia had withdrawn cash and gone shopping with her bodyguards.
Emily didn’t believe in coincidences. But no matter how hard she dug, there wasn’t a single sign that Lydia and Cale had ever made contact it almost made Emily feel like she was just being paranoid.
Wraid of tipping them off, Emily didn’t dare make any big moves. Still, she was certain that the money Cale suddenly had come straight from Lydia,
Since tailing Lydia wasn’t getting her anywhere, Emily decided to keep a close watch on Cale instead.
“He took Lydia’s money, he’s definitely planning something next, Emily thought to herself.
Whenever she was investigating these things, Emily would always share any useful clues she found with Charles. She knew he always had Bob on his
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This time was no different, but she didn’t say she’d found anything out about Lydia. She just told Charles she’d discovered something aboud chci on the clues Bob had left behind.
Emily knew that even though Charles never really liked Lydia, she was still his granddaughter by blood.
And Emily knew that what Charles had always wanted most was for her and everyone in the Bennett Family to get along with each other.
Even though Emily was good at keeping secrets, Charles, who had weathered all kinds of storms in his youth, could see right through her in an instant.
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