Chapter 296 Elyse’s Comeuppance

“Listen up, Elyse, and your entire family too.” Leo’s voice was still and unemotional. “This is the last time I’ll answer a call from you. I won’t ask for the money you tricked me into giving you, but you will need to suffer the consequences of your actions. The lawyer will get in touch with you soon. You can get into the details with him.”

“Leo!” Elyse cried out once more as her face turned ghostly pale. She couldn’t resign herself to this.

All she got in reply was a dial tone.

He ended the call!

“What happened?” Michael quickly asked when he noticed Elyse standing there motionlessly with a strange expression on her face.

The phone slipped out of Elyse’s hand and clattered on the floor. Elyse looked defeated.

“What on earth is going on? Hurry up and tell me!” Michael urged when he realized that things weren’t going the way he had hoped.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Michael eyed Elyse for a moment before rushing over to get the door.

A stranger was standing outside.

Michael scrutinized the man with his beady eyes and asked, “Who are you? Did you come to the wrong address?”

“I’m Mr. Alston’s lawyer. I’m here to see Michael and Elyse Clayton,” the man answered. “You must be Michael Clayton.”

“L-Lawyer?” Michael instinctively took a step back when he heard that this man was a lawyer.

The lawyer walked into the house and saw a clueless Ellen and an ashen-faced Elyse.

He nodded and said, “I suppose Mr. Alston has told you why I’m here, Miss Clayton.”

opened up his briefcase and took

Alston. The truth is that Miss Ellen Clayton and Mr. Alston never had any contact before. You misled him on purpose to make him think that Ellen Clayton was Big Eyes. In the

“What?”

out of his

eyes were frozen as

eyes were flickering wildly too, and her legs

has been exposed just like that? How

stared at each other, but they couldn’t figure out where they had gone

once, Elyse snatched the so-called

stated that Ellen never stopped foot inside Leo’s room during his

diary which contains a clear record of every

Michael backed Elyse

Mr. Alston, then how do you explain the diary? If you people look down on Elie because she’s mentally unwell

indignant man demanding

or not

her face. Her eyes

Leo. I’m his Big Eyes. He likes me so much. We made

other people’s hearts would

He took out another set of documents. “This is the report from the mental hospital which confirms that Miss Ellen Clayton has a paranoid disorder. She took the interactions she saw between Mr. Alston and someone else and made them her own. She created a wonderful

“What…”

was irrefutable. Michael and Elyse

happened because there’s something wrong with her and she misled us. We’re the victims too!” Fraud was a crime

fraudulent contracts. If I get taken

situation would be unsalvageable if she admitted to

want to continue my life of glory! I can’t let this

nodded in agreement. “Yes! That’s right! I didn’t know it wasn’t true. Her diary was so detailed. I really thought… Thank goodness you brought the evidence that proved it was all a lie,

Lawyer, please talk to Mr. Alston and tell him that we were tricked too, so that’s why… Here, how’s this? I’ll take Elie to

the contents of the diary weren’t true.” Elyse

cleared his throat perfunctorily and said, “If you wish to prove your innocence, why not do it in court? However, let me remind you that Mr. Alston doesn’t like being tricked. If you

nodded

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