It was already getting dark outside Digion Technology.George was looking at some documents when his phone buzzed on the table. He glanced at the caller ID and answered the call. “Yes, Papa Brown.”“Young Master George, Ms. Adina brought Young Master Alden and Miss Melody here. She wanted me to ask you when you’ll be back.”“I’ll head back in ten minutes,” George said as he scanned the pile of documents beside him and pursed his lips. “Tell them to eat without me.”He ended the call and closed the file in his hands. After that, he searched through the stack of documents for the next two minutes and finally found a document about technological projects.There was a formula written inside that, surprisingly, could produce the same results as the formula he had previously seen in Project A-F. If he brought up the formula to Adina, perhaps they could talk for a bit longer.He took the file and left the building. Liam drove the car and stopped right in front of him. Before he open
She was his biological mother, and no matter what, she would not hurt him, would she?He loosened his grip and got into the backseat obediently. Dew did not stop for anything, including the red lights. The car sped down the road.“What do you want to tell me, Mother?” George asked, feeling that something was off. “You can pull over right now and tell me!”Dew floored the pedal because it seemed like the only way for her to let all of her fear and anxiety out.They soon left the downtown area as the car zoomed along the road. They kept moving further and further away along a provincial road, with fewer and fewer vehicles and people on the road.After twenty minutes, the car finally stopped at the side of the road. They were in an industrial area full of abandoned factories, and rusting machinery was being dumped down the sides of the roads. Under the streetlight’s yellow glow, the place appeared even eerier.“Get out.”Dew leaned against the car with her eyes cold.George to
“George, listen to me.”Dew took a few steps forward and grabbed onto George’s arms once again. George instantly fought to escape, but because he was only four years old and had limited strength, he was unable to do so.“I’m your mother, your birth mother. You have to accept that! Can’t you see the effort and sacrifices I made for the both of you throughout these past four years? I looked after the two of you and waited for Duke for four years. Why didn’t I get anything!”Dew’s face was growing visibly unhinged by the minute.George’s little eyebrows furrowed as he said, “You have indeed been Harold and I’s mother for four years, but are you truly deserving of the title? Do you remember how you treated Harold and me on the day we turned one? When nobody is around, you would call us “illegitimate children.” Even if someone was present, you would sneakily pinch our arms. How could you be so cruel to us when we were only a year old at the time?“Over time, Harold and I gradually gr
The call had just ended before Adina called. Her name flashed continuously on the phone screen.Dew’s head buzzed.Was Adina calling because she wanted to tell George the truth?If George learned everything that happened back then, her fate would be sealed. “I’ll say this again—give me the phone!”George’s tone became icy cold.Dew hung up the call and then turned the phone off.She raised her head, and her eyes shone with a desperate and shrewd light.In the Winters family mansion, Adina called a person twice. Suddenly, a mechanically cold female voice was heard from the phone, indicating that the other party’s phone had been turned off.“Is George still not answering the phone?” Harold tilted his head and asked with slight concern.“Theoretically, Young Master George wouldn’t reject any calls.” Mr. Brown scratched his chin and said, “Young Master George’s cell phone is always on. How could it die now? Regardless, he should be back soon. Just wait for a little while more.”
At the Daugherty Corporation, Aaron and Ruby could do nothing except watch helplessly as the company stock price plummeted quickly.“Duke, Daugherty Corporation is unable to withstand such a blow. Please go easy on us.”Aaron could no longer pretend not to care. If this continued, Daugherty Corporation would only end in one way: collapsing into bankruptcy.Duke’s lips curled into an ice-cold, malicious smile. “So, are you all still denying it?”Ruby supported herself on the desk while her entire body shivered.As her pale lips trembled, she pleaded, “Duke, no matter what, Dew has taken care of Georgie and Hal for four years. Her hard work deserves some credit. Please spare us. Spare the Daugherty family.”The smile on Duke’s face disappeared at that instant.He arose menacingly, his eyes twinkling like a pair of eagle eyes, “That is to say, you two were also aware of that matter? That incident from four years back?”He sent out an aura that fell upon Ruby with staggering weight
“Duke, you can come to me if you have any problem, just do not touch my mother!” Dew yelled until she almost lost her voice, “If you approach the Daugherty Corporation and my parents again, I’ll—”She looked into the car. A four-year-old child lay in the back seat.She had just lost her control and pushed George. His head knocked on a stone at the roadside, then he passed out instantly.She was frightened. She wanted to get far away because she was worried that if something happened to George, Duke would look for her once more.However, the shares in her hands were now worthless due to the Daugherty Corporation stock price drop. She did not even have the money to leave the country!“George is now in my hands. If you dare to lay your hands on my mother and the Daugherty Corporation, I will let you never see George again in this life!”After Dew finished speaking angrily, she immediately hung up.After finishing her words, she regretted it again.She had never intended to harm Ge
Alden pulled open the car’s back seat and sat in it.He held the computer and continued tapping on the keyboard, whispering, “I’ve locked on to Dew’s location, and she is together with George.”Adina clenched her jaw. “Alden, fasten your seat belt.”The car accelerated out of the mansion as she stepped on the gas.Four years ago, she was not able to protect George and Harold well, which later turned into a nightmare that haunted her ever since.Now, she must protect her son.In the past, if Dew dared to hurt George, she would have wanted her to pay the blood debt with blood.However, she no longer wanted things to get to that point.Adina stepped on the gas pedal to the bottom. She ran a string of red lights before finally driving out of the downtown area, and the car sped up to the red dot on the locator.She was closer to the red dot.She grew closer and closer.Fifteen minutes later, the car arrived at the beach. The seawater over here carried the strong stench of fish wh
“Duke, I know it’s you!” Dew stood inside and talked to herself. “I was wrong four years ago. I made a serious mistake. I should not have pretended to be the children’s mother! Even though I lied to you, I gave the two children my heart and soul over these four years, and I never did anything to harm George and Harold. Why do you have to do this to me? Why are you doing this to Daugherty Corporation?”Adina, who was standing outside, instantly froze when she heard it.So Duke was aware of the issue with the children?When did he know about it?Before she could think about it, she heard Dew’s voice growing more agitated.“I’ve been waiting for you for the past four years, giving the Winters family four years of my youth, and this is how you treat me? You never put me in your eyes! You never wanted to marry me! The Daugherty family has never benefited from the Winters family either, so why are you treating me like this?” Dew roared, “I guess you just want to kill me, huh? If you wan