Zachary and Ingrid turned around."Angie!""A-Angie!"Both cried out at the same time.Angeline was extremely pale under the dim hallway light. She was staring fixedly at Ned with bloodshot eyes."You pushed Anne?" Her voice was deathly cold and raspy."Angie, Ned didn't mean to! Anne kept pushing Ned, wanting him to look at some photos so Ned just pushed her a little. We were on the sidewalk. None of us expected a car to swerve toward her!" Ingrid hurriedly explained to Angeline.Ingrid carefully held the latter's arm. "Ned immediately reached out to grab Anne when the car drove onto the sidewalk, but he didn't manage to do so in time. He fractured his arm in the process too. He never expected…"Angeline wasn't listening to anything Ingrid was saying. The only thing echoing in her mind was Ingrid's words from earlier that the car wouldn't have struck Anne if Ned hadn't pushed her.Despair and fury consumed Angeline. Tears poured from her eyes as she flung Ingrid's hand away a
"Leave! All of you!" Angeline cried, tears still falling down her cheeks. She was quivering as she glared hatefully at Ned, waving her arms. "Leave right now!"Sean turned to Ned. "Or do you need Mr. Fletcher Sr. to personally escort you?"The coldness in Sean's eyes persuaded Ned to leave. He wrapped an arm around Ingrid and left the floor with her. Before Ned entered the elevator, however, he shot one last look in Angeline's direction."Thank you for your help today. You should go back home and rest," Sean said to Zachary.Sean had gotten to know what had happened on his way here. It was Zachary who had helped handle Anne's affairs after her accident.Zachary gazed at Angeline who was being held up by Sean, unwilling to leave. But Taylor was already gesturing for Zachary to leave. "Mr. Stone…""Then please console Angie." Zachary figured Angeline might be more susceptible to Sean's words since they were related.Just before Zachary entered the elevator, he turned around to see
Sean hadn't slept the entire night, so exhaustion was clear on his face. His eyes were vaguely bloodshot too."How is Ms. Angeline?" Taylor asked. He had been working for Sean for so many years, so it was only natural that he knew about Angelina's affairs just as well as Sean did. This was the first time Taylor had seen Angelina in such a terrible state.Sean didn't answer the question. He returned the laptop to Taylor. "Good work. Get some rest or a bite to eat."After Sean gave James a call to inform him of what happened with Angeline, he went to take a shower in the guest room.When Angeline finally woke up from her dream, her eyes were incredibly swollen and her vision blurry.She seemed to have dreamt that Anne was gone.When Angeline saw that she was in Sean's master bedroom in his Oceanford villa, she realized Anne was gone for real.Angeline blinked quietly as tears fell from her eyes again. She quickly wiped them away and got off the bed, trying to find a pair of slippe
Two knocks.Angeline couldn't hold her tears back anymore. "I'm going to hang up first."Two more knocks.After hanging up the call, Angeline forced some food down.Taylor explained what had happened based on the surveillance footage outside the restaurant to Angeline at the table. He explained that Ned pushed Anne, but he did try to pull her back when the car swerved onto the sidewalk. His arm was fractured because of it.Taylor didn't want Angeline to watch the footage at first, but Angeline insisted.Anne was going up to Ned with some photographs in hand. The cameras didn't capture any audio, so Angeline didn't know what Anne was saying. It looked like she was pleading with Ned to look at the photos, however.Angeline's eyes grew reddened. She stopped watching the footage right when Ned reached out to pull Anne from being struck by the car. She then shut the laptop and covered her face with her hands, tears falling uncontrollably.Sean took the laptop away and set a warm gla
When Sean turned to look at Taylor, the latter switched his laptop off.Taylor withstood the overwhelming pressure he felt and said seriously, "You are no ordinary man, sir. Mr. Lawson Senior doesn't want you to cross paths with Ms. Angeline anymore, yet you still disobeyed his wishes countless times. "You even helped Fletcher Corporation for Ms. Angeline's sake. Mr. Lawson Senior is already incredibly displeased by all this. If you disobey his wishes in regards to your marriage, I'm worried you'll face hardship in taking over Lawson Global."What was more, Sean never revealed the pressure he was under when helping Angeline out. If Angeline was still married into the Fletcher family, she could still potentially help Sean out.Not only did Angeline not know just how much Sean had secretly helped her, there was no way she could help Sean out now that she had divorced Ned Fletcher."Leave." Sean's voice was icy.Taylor's lips pulled tight. He retreated from the study, knowing he wo
Henrietta couldn't accept that the kind-hearted Anne had passed away in a car accident. Anne had lived a hard life. She never got to watch Henrietta and Angeline succeed and live better lives. Anne never got to hear Henrietta speak or call her "Mom".Angeline closed her eyes, but her tears streamed uncontrollably down her face as she held Henrietta tightly. Early the next morning, Angeline took Henrietta to the funeral home to pay their last respects to Anne. They brought Anne's body back from Oceanford for this moment. Henrietta hadn't slept all night from crying. She looked exhausted, and her eyes were so swollen that she couldn't open them. However, she didn't want to worry Angeline. So, she forced herself to put on a strong front and keep her spirits up. Henrietta broke down at the sight of Anne's body. She felt the urge to rush over to hug Anne, but the staff stopped her.Anne didn't look as disheveled as she was that day. The staff had applied makeup to her. She looked
When Angeline emerged from the kitchen after mopping the floor, she found Henrietta asleep at the table with tears streaking her face. Angeline stroked her head and draped a thin blanket over her. She then noticed some bruises on Henrietta's skin peeking out from under the sleeve of her shirt. Frowning, Angeline glanced at Henrietta's profile and carefully pushed the sleeve up. Before she could take a better look, Henrietta became restless in her sleep, and her body twitched slightly. Angeline hesitated to touch the sleeve again and made a note to ask Henrietta about it when she was awake.Angeline received a call from Taylor after she headed downstairs and hung up the "For Sale" sign. Taylor informed her, "Riley demanded 1.3 million dollars in compensation from them. They said they needed six months to settle our demanded sum if we insisted. However, they can settle it immediately if the amount is 1.1 million dollars."Taylor continued, "Riley suggested accepting their offer.
Ned hadn't officially divorced Angeline when he dated Ingrid.The attention to "The Family Search" program was irresistible. Moreover, the most recent episode garnered much attention, especially with the recording presented at the end of the last episode. It had caused the fanfare to skyrocket. However, until now, nobody connected Angeline to the incident four years ago, where Ingrid was criticized online. Even if someone did, it was quickly buried by other comments. Ned thought that perhaps Sean had someone stifle it. Anne had pushed Ingrid four years ago. If this event became public knowledge, people wouldn't believe it was an accident. Then, Anne would be in the spotlight.Angeline and Sean definitely wouldn't want to see that happen. Ned became more troubled as he thought about Angeline. Since discovering that the medicine Tommy gave Angeline wasn't the truth serum, he'd been wondering if he had made love to Angeline that night. He had no idea because he couldn't rememb