CHAPTER 44. CORNERED
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Everyone there was shocked, not least, Mr. Hoshier and Elena who listened to Oliver's voice on the recording shown by Rudolph.

They could clearly hear Oliver talking to someone and revealing his plan to marry Elena by approaching Mr. Hoshier.

Everything that happened before was a plan that had been made by Oliver so that Oliver could easily take all the property from the Hoshier family. Even in the recording, Oliver said he would kill Mr. Hoshier after Oliver got all his property and divorced Elena.

"Disgusting..."

"It turns out that she had planned such a cunning thing just to take all of Mr. Hoshier's property."

"They were even married."

"But at least they found out about Oliver's crime earlier."

"Elena should divorce him immediately before it's too late!"

"What a shameless man!"

Everyone started gossiping about Oliver. They scoffed with looks of disgust and disbelief.

Meanwhile, Rudolph, Katie, and Antonio were grinning, full of triumph in their hearts.

Antonio didn't know who Rudo
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