“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?”
out of his
eyes were frozen as he
wildly too, and her
has been exposed just like that? How did it get exposed?
other, but they couldn’t
the so-called evidence
inside Leo’s room during his time at the hospital.
sister kept a diary which contains a clear record of every single detail of their interactions! Leo confirmed the contents of the
right!” Michael
you explain the diary? If you people look down on Elie because she’s
every bit the part of an indignant man demanding justice. His
of an indignant man demanding justice. His
up, Ellen. Tell us whether or not you saw Leo.”
look on her face. Her eyes
I’m his Big Eyes. He likes me so much. We made a promise! How could
that other people’s hearts would ache
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 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
“What…”
Michael and Elyse
her and she misled us. We’re the victims too!” Fraud was a
contracts. If I get taken to court
full well that her situation would
need to turn things around! I want to continue
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, or else, we’d still be kept
were tricked too, so that’s why… Here, how’s this? I’ll take Elie to him and make
of the diary weren’t true.”
not do it in court? However, let me remind you that
nodded
“That’s…”
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