Ethan and Elsa Caldwell stared into each other’s eyes for more than one minute, each seeming to look into the soul of the other. After another one minute passed by, Elsa broke eye contact and snorted out a laughter. “The Wellington family told me you’d be a small fry to handle. Of course, I couldn’t take chances given how easy it was for you to wipe out a big family like the Lauthners overnight.” “Does anyone even know where they disappeared to? It’s like they disappeared into thin air.” “Only a few people can make that happen; wealthy families like the Wellingtons, the government and a high ranking army official like a commander.” “So I took the liberty to be careful when taking care of you. And because of that, I knew just when to stop.” “Had I pushed forward and let Isaac attack you like I planned, you would really make the rubbles of this house bury us alive, wouldn’t you?” Ethan scoffed and raised a questioning brow. “What makes someone as despicable as you think you have
Ethan got to Honey’s school a few minutes after they closed and got out of the car with a small smile on his face. However, his smile stiffened when he saw his daughter walking towards him with a happy smile on her face, her fingers interlocked with the boy walking with her. This same boy he had seen with her a some months ago. “Daddy, do you remember Honey’a friend?” Honey asked in a crisp voice as soon as she got to him. Ethan quickly got rid of the frown on his face when she raised her eyes to look at him. “Yes, I do. How is your friend? I don’t think I’ve seen him for the past few weeks. How have you been, little boy?” The bright smile on Honey’s face fell a little when she heard him. “Little boy? Daddy, did you forget the name of Honey’s friend’s name?” That was in fact what happened, but Ethan wasn’t ready to know how Honey would treat him if he she found out, so he quickly shook his head in denial. “Of course, not! Grown-ups like to call children his age little boy. Af
Matilda finally released her furrowed brows and glanced at the people behind her. Given that the bank manager was saying this in front of so many people without mincing words, then maybe she was right. “This card?” She hesitantly asked just to be sure as she raised it for everyone to see. The bank manager nodded. “Yes. It’s a black card ultimatum. Limitless, the identity of its owner isn’t shown to just anyone and if visiting a bank, its owner should never be kept waiting.” Matilda was silent for a moment before she asked again, “So you’re not taking me inside to arrest me?” “Why would I do that, ma’am? You’re the most important customer our bank has had in decades!” The bank manager hurriedly replied. After staring at her face thoughtfully and seeing it didn’t look like she was trying to deceive her, Matilda finally nodded and followed him into the bank. The bank manager led her straight to her office. As soon as Matilda sat down, someone walked into the office carrying a v
Before Matilda could say anything, Angela Carter rushed towards them with her laptop. Unaware that Matilda’s brain temporarily froze as soon as she heard Edward. Then she snapped out of it and lowered her eyes to the floor, cussing Ethan in her heart. That bastard told her he didn’t have a pin. Yet, she was being asked for one. Edward didn’t know what was happening and was getting quite impatient after being left hanging for over one minute that he couldn’t help but call out to her again. “Ms. Brown, pin.” Matilda’s eyes promptly shot up and she casually waved him aside. “You know what? Never mind. I have somewhere i need to be in the next thirty minutes. Just get me the one hundred billion.” Edward grinned widely and nodded. He turned to Angela Carter and whispered something into her ear before they both got up and walked towards the door. He stopped and glanced back at her with a polite smile. “We’ll be gone for at least ten minutes. One hundred billion is a lot to count an
Edward Steven was startled. Then he stared at the middle-aged man over and frowned slightly. The man was dressed in a clean and elegant blue suit. Even without trying, he had an air of authority that Edward couldn’t help, but feel intimidated. Nevertheless, he didn’t know who this man was or why he was kicking down the doors of the bank. So he gritted his teeth in rage and glared at him. “And what are you supposed to be? How dare you barge in here? Those darn security, have they forgotten what their job here is!” The man stared at him sternly before he stepped into the office fully. Only then did Edward notice the briefcase he was holding onto. His eyes swept over the six men who were with him and his eyes bulged fearfully, a thought occurring to him, when he saw they were holding onto the same type of briefcase. On a closer look, he gulped down warily when he recognized the type of briefcase they were holding. These…were they lawyers? Was the bank about to be sued? Edward co
Hearing her sudden outburst took everyone by surprise. Darius Hale snorted loudly after a few seconds. “Your son-in-law gave you the card but you’ve been spending lavishly from it for the past three hours.” “If you were such a poor elderly lady who was being taken advantage of, why did you buy so many expensive things with the card instead of reporting it to the police?” Matilda blinked her eyes innocently and immediately spat back, “How would I have known the card was stolen? He just gave it to me and said to get whatever I want. You’re interrogating the wrong person!”Darius still wasn’t convinced. “Ms. Brown, he may have given you to bank card but he isn’t the one who came to the bank to withdraw a huge amount of money.” “For what it’s worth, you may be making all these up to avoid punishment for what you’ve done. Haven’t you been lying to the bank manager and bank president all these while?” Matilda was slightly taken before she huffed in disbelief, “You shouldn’t be talkin
That was when it suddenly dawned on Edward. This man in the office wasn’t just a nobody. For the second time today, he had judged someone wrongly. He didn’t know exactly what Ethan’s identity was, but to have someone from the minister of finance treat him with so much respect, he was definitely not someone he should’ve spoke so rudely to a few minutes ago. Sensing he had cornered himself, he screamed out defensively, “Everything I did, I did for the bank!” Ethan chuckled and turned around to look at him. “Does that include the 300 million you embezzled every year?” “Wh-what? How do you know that?” Edward shuddered in disbelief, the hairs on the back of his neck standing on its end. The 300 million he embezzled every year was something he did so carefully. He was so careful that he was able to get away with it every year even when an extensive investigation was done by the bank. He didn’t even leave a receipt behind that could trace the transaction back to him. This man, just
Matilda didn’t say a world throughout their drive back to the house. Even when she alighted from the car and walked past a concerned Chloe, she still didn’t bother to say anything. Chloe’s eyes followed her until she disappeared into a a corridor upstairs. Then she turned to Ethan in confusion. “Did something happen to my mother? She looks traumatized.” The man slipped his hands into his pockets and lied through his teeth with a straight face. “I think she was having tea with her friends and had a fight with them over something . She was really upset when she called me to come pick her up.”“Oh,” Chloe mummed and no longer said anything. But after a moment, Ethan suddenly felt someone’s piercing gaze on him and lowered his eyes to find her staring up at him attentively. Fearing she had seen through him, he faked a cough and covered his mouth with his left hand. Then asked in a muffled voice, “Did I do something wrong? Did you send me a message to get you something on my way ba