CEO's Substitute Bride

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Emmett pushed the cup of water into Alyssa's hand and said, "They don't need to confirm if you have heard their secret or not. As long as they feel that someone is threatening them, they will do anything."

Alyssa's body stiffened and her hands were very cold.

Emmett looked at her and held her hand in his palm. "Are you afraid?"

Alyssa did not answer his question. The next moment, she suddenly asked with a sob, "Will something bad happen to Angela? Will they hurt her?"

George and the others were so unscrupulous that Alyssa did not dare to expect them to have pity on a baby.

In order to deal with Emmett, if they really hurt her child…

Alyssa did not have the courage to even think about this.

Emmett’s hand around her hand tightened as he said to her resolutely, "Angela will be okay. They want me to work for the Lawrence Group, so they will not hurt Angela."

Alyssa's expression turned slightly better when she heard that. She lowered her head and Emmett did not know what she was thinking about.

Emmett did not say anything. He just silently held her hand.

After a while, Alyssa raised her head and said, "I don't understand what they want to hide from us. They have tried so hard to hide it!"

Kidnapping Emmett and his mother back then, pushing Alfred down the stairs and framing her as a murder, and now stealing Angela, they had done all these unscrupulous things just to hide their secret.

But what secret did they have that they did not hesitate to do so much evil things?

Emmett asked her, "Before Grandfather got into the accident, he asked you to help him send a message to me to find him. Do you still remember that?"

Alyssa nodded. "I remember."

"That night, Grandpa said that he would tell me everything I wanted to know as long as I could spend the New Year peacefully in the old residence." Emmett's eyes became exceptionally sharp when he said that. "Including the truth of the kidnapping case back then."

Emmett had not told Alyssa about this matter before.

The main reason was that he really did not want Alyssa to know too much about the Lawrence family or that would be very disadvantageous to her.

Hearing Emmett’s words, Alyssa’s mind worked quickly.

"So your father and the others are trying to cover up the truth of the kidnapping back then? They want to silence everyone who knows the truth?"

Alyssa paused and frowned. "They thought I overheard their conversation. And Grandpa wanted to tell you the truth. So they want to kill me and Grandpa."

Emmett replied to her in silence.

Silence represented certainty.

After a long while, Alyssa said faintly, "I saw your aunt and your father enter the room together on New Year's Eve. If they wanted to hide the truth of the kidnapping case back then, could it be that they were accomplices and your aunt was also involved in the case back then?"

Emmett seemed to be a little tired. He reached out and pressed between his eyebrows. He closed his eyes and leaned on the sofa. And he said in a low and cold voice. "Your grandfather also said that he saw my aunt at the crime scene."

Her grandfather?

Alyssa pursed her lips and asked in dissatisfaction. "How many things did you hide from me?"

But she also knew that this was not the right time to fuss over this matter.

"It was because my grandfather saw your aunt that he was sent abroad to 'retire' by your father?"

This way, everything made sense.

Alyssa suggested, "How about this, let's go find my grandfather and ask him about this."

However, Emmett still rejected her suggestion, "No need."

"But…"

Alyssa wanted to say something more but Emmett interrupted her. "It's too late. It’s time to go to bed."

Alyssa could tell that Emmett did not want to talk about it anymore, so she did not say anything about it anymore.

After all, Emmett used to be close to Frances in the past. Frances was also Emmett's mother's best friend. If the kidnapping case back then was really related to Frances, then. . .

But why did they treat Emmett and his mother like that?

To Emmett's mother, one was her closest husband and the other was her best friend.

Would George and Frances really work together to harm Emmett’s mother?

Emmett stood up and saw Alyssa still sitting on the sofa without moving. He reached out and lifted her up. His actions were not gentle at all.

Alyssa cried out in surprise. Emmett reached out and pressed his hand to her lips, indicating that she should not speak.

His expression was unprecedentedly solemn and serious. "Alyssa, you cannot interfere in this matter anymore. You are not allowed to look for your grandfather. You are also not allowed to look for any information from the side. You are also not allowed to look for Frances or George."

Of course, Alyssa would not agree.

But Emmett's expression was too terrifying. Alyssa held it in for a long time but could only say one sentence.

"You are unreasonable."

Emmett continued with a deep voice, "Then I will reason with you now. As long as you are fine, I am fine. If anything bad happens to you, it will cost me my life."

There was not any special emotion fluctuation in his voice, but every word he said was clearly transmitted into her ears, hitting her eardrums. It made her unable to react for a long time.

Seeing that she did not react for a long time, Emmett raised his eyebrows and asked, "Did you hear what I said clearly?"

Alyssa's expression was a little dazed. She asked tentatively, "I heard it clearly, but I did not understand what you meant. Do you want to say it again?"

Emmett heard her and squinted his eyes. "Do you still want to hear it again?"