Chapter 397
Legally, she wasn’t married, but people in her village said she was. She had a husband who hadn’t come back for years but would call her once or twice a year.
Her husband was Cale. The bodyguards and doctors tried asking her questions, but no matter what they said, the woman just looked scared and curled up in a corner of the bed, refusing to speak.
Emily quickly decided to take the woman to meet Cale. Cale had been confined during this time. Besides the restrictions, he hadn’t suffered. In fact, his skin appeared healthier due to his steady routine.
But the moment he saw the woman, his face changed. “Why are you here?”
He looked panicked, but when Emily came in, he forced himself to calm down. “I already told you everything. If you want to confront Lydia, I’ll testify. Why bring her here? She’s an idiot. She doesn’t know anything.”
Emily calmly sat across from him. “She’s not clueless. Even if she’s slow, she knows that giving things to Lydia is the only way to get you back.”
Cale’s face suddenly shifted. He grabbed the woman’s wrist. “You gave the stuff to Lydia?”
The woman looked frightened and shook as she said, “No.”
Cale relaxed for a moment, but then his expression froze again. He turned his stiff neck and caught Emily’s half-smile. “Looks like you haven’t told me everything either.”
Cale shivered all over. Even though he’d been living comfortably, the mental scars from Emily’s earlier questioning hadn’t
gone away.
Seeing her expression now made him shake. He knew his trump card was about to be exposed. Still, he tried to get something out of it.
“Give me 3 million dollars. I’ll give you the stuff and testify in person. I swear what I’m giving you is worth 3 million.” He added, “If you don’t agree, I’m ready to go all in.”
Emily saw how serious he was. She even had a feeling this might be the real evidence to take Lydia down. Without much thought, she agreed, but only if she got the stuff first.
The item was important. Emily didn’t trust anyone, and she worried that if she went herself, she might alert them. So she gave the job to Austin. This showed how much she trusted him.
Austin didn’t let her down. In less than 24 hours, he had the item. It was a small USB drive, nothing big. It contained just one video.
The footage was filmed secretly. Though it was dark, one could see everyone’s face clearly. Lydia held a blood-covered dagger, standing in front of two bodies.
Emily recognized those bodies. When Lydia first came back, the Bennett Family had investigated Henry and Yamilet. The two bodies on the ground were Henry and Yamilet.
Emily thought they died in an accident. Lydia didn’t know she was being filmed. The video went on. Yamilet, lying in a pool of blood, wasn’t dead yet.
She trembled as she reached out to Lydia, disbelief in her voice. “Lydia. Why?”
Lydia smiled coldly. “If you want to blame anyone, blame that you’re alive and blocking my fortune and honor. Only if
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you’re dead can I be the Bennett Family’s daughter and the main lady of this world.”
Then she raised the dagger and stabbed hard into Yamilet’s stomach again. Before Yamilet died, she suddenly said, “Let me
tell you something kindly. Your daughter’s been dead for a long time. I just took over her body.”
