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?”

out of his

frozen as he

were flickering wildly too, and her legs

that? How

they

at once, Elyse snatched the so-called evidence and flipped

report which clearly stated that Ellen never stopped foot inside Leo’s room during his time at

contains a clear record of every single

right!” Michael backed Elyse

the diary? If you people look down on Elie because she’s mentally unwell and don’t want her around, then just come out and say so. How can you come up with these things

looked every bit the part of an indignant man

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

not you saw Leo.”

on her face. Her eyes were reddened as

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

other people’s hearts would

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

“What…”

was irrefutable. Michael and

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

If I get taken to court over this too, I’m

full well that her situation would be unsalvageable if she admitted to

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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

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, so let’s… put a stop to the lawsuit against

weren’t true.” Elyse cupped her hands and stared apologetically at the lawyer. Her act looked quite

for him, the lawyer 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 confess now, he might consider

nodded

“That’s…”

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