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.”

He deftly opened up his briefcase and took out a stack of paper.

“This is the evidence of your attempts to trick Mr. 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 eyes of the law, this counts as fraud.”

“What?”

scared out of his

frozen

were flickering wildly too, and

exposed just like that? How did it get exposed?

Michael stared at each other, but they couldn’t figure out

once, Elyse snatched the so-called evidence and flipped

stopped foot inside Leo’s room during his time at the hospital.

a diary which contains a clear record of every single detail of

Michael backed

Elie never stayed at the hospital in Quinn Town and never spoke to Mr. Alston, then how do you explain the diary? If you people look down on Elie because she’s mentally unwell

part of an indignant man demanding justice. His beady eyes were large and

looked every bit the part of an indignant man

Tell us whether or not you

on her face. Her

Leo. I’m his Big Eyes. He likes me so much. We made a promise! How could he…” Ellen’s tears streamed down

that other people’s

between Mr. Alston and someone else and made them her own. She created a wonderful fairytale in her head with herself as the subject, and she recorded everything in her diary. Also, our investigations have proven that although Miss Ellen Clayton never spoke to Mr. Alston, she was constantly hiding in the dark and spying

“What…”

lawyer’s evidence was irrefutable. Michael and Elyse

with her and she misled us. We’re the victims too!” Fraud

already in serious trouble because of the fraudulent contracts. If I get taken to court over

well that her situation would be unsalvageable if she admitted to

around! I want to continue my life of

I really thought… Thank goodness you brought the evidence that proved it was all a lie, or else, we’d

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 him and make her apologize in person,

if we knew the contents of the diary weren’t true.” Elyse

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 confess now, he might consider showing you leniency, but if you refuse to admit what you’ve done, then knowing his

lawyer nodded

“That’s…”

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