Never Too Far Novel

Chapter 1711-1720

Selena was beginning to fear now, for she saw that all the news articles related to Ellen were gone. This meant that Jared had taken action.

Selena didn’t want to get involved, much less bear the responsibility for it.

Ellen’s reputation was considered ruined at this point, so even if the news articles were gone, it was enough to force Ellen out of the chess community. From today onward, Ellen wouldn’t dare participate in official competitions, and her championship would become the joke of the chess community.

Selena was quite satisfied with the outcome, feeling that it was worth sacrificing her body in exchange for such results.

…

In the meeting room, Jared was seated at the front while a group of people sat before him. They were all concerned about one thing, which was to find the culprit behind the scenes who wanted to defame Ellen.

At that moment, they had gathered enough information to paint a complete picture.

“Young Master Jared, these are records of Alden Thomas’ financial situation. This is his call history and duration, as well as the people he met recently at the hotel.”

“Based on the people he’s met in the past few days, we carried out a thorough investigation. These are all people who have contacted him before.”

“According to our speculation, it’s highly possible that Alden wanted to get revenge on Miss Reiss because he couldn’t accept the fact that he lost.”

Jared stared at Alden’s photo with an extremely disgusted look in his cold eyes. Back then, this man had smashed the chess pieces right in front of Ellen during the finals.

“President Presgrave, shall we employ our special methods?”

“For the moment, no. Keep investigating.” Jared shook his head. He had to be a little more careful since Ellen’s reputation was involved. He wanted to clear Ellen’s name and restore her reputation as well.

If he just wanted to exact revenge, he had all the methods in the world to do it.

Just then, Jared’s phone rang. He glanced at it, gentleness instantly filling his eyes as he took his phone over to the French windows. He answered the call and said tenderly, “Hey. Are you going to sleep already?”

“Is the investigation still underway?” On the other end of the line, Ellen asked as her heart ached for Jared. It was already 9.00PM.

“Don’t worry, we’ll find the truth very soon,” Jared comforted her.

“Just forget it if you can’t find anything. I won’t stoop to their level.” Ellen didn’t want him to work too hard either.

“I’ve said before that I won’t let anyone bully you anymore. I’m a man of my word.” Jared would never let those people off the hook.

He would make all of Ellen’s bullies pay the steep price for it. Even if they couldn’t be punished by law, he could still employ his methods.

Just then, Stanley’s phone rang. He reached out and picked up the call. “Hello. Did you get any information from eavesdropping?”

“Send it to me.”

Not long after Stanley listened to a portion of the recording, he spoke to Jared, who was still on the phone. “Young Master Jared, we’ve found something. Listen to this.”

Jared glanced at Stanley, then said gently over the phone, “I’ll go home to you as soon as possible.”

“Okay, don’t overwork yourself,” Ellen said in concern. After hanging up, Jared sat down at the table and listened to the audio recording. Two drunken voices were heard speaking.

“Jay, I helped you this time, so you’d better thank me properly.”

“Of course, I will.”

“That girl is outstanding, though. If I play against her in the future, I’m honestly not sure if I’d be able to win.”

“I’ll make use of this incident to bar her from entering competitions, and you won’t ever see her at any matches in the future.”

“That’s great. I’ll have hopes of getting first place next year.”

“You’ve helped me this time, but you’re also helping yourself too!”

“I wouldn’t have helped you so readily otherwise!”

“Thank you, thank you so much.”

After the playback ended, Stanley continued, “President Presgrave, a subordinate recorded this while sending the two back to the hotel. Looks like Alden was just a pawn, and the real person who wanted to ruin Miss Reiss’ reputation was the judge named Jay Harris. He probably has a grudge against her.”

Jared frowned a little. The recording was proof that Alden was helping Jay destroy Ellen’s reputation, so who was the one behind Jay?

“Keep investigating,” Jared said in a low voice.

Meanwhile, at the entrance of the hotel, the two drunk men staggering into the building had no idea that the driver of the taxi they took wasn’t the real driver at all. The real driver was sitting in the black car tailing them.

In the meeting room, they managed to figure out Jay’s connections and networks within ten minutes. Stanley quickly arranged them, then handed them to Jared.

“Young Master Jared, these are all the people Jay contacted in the past few days at the hotel. Curiously enough, we didn’t find anything between him and Miss Reiss.”

Jared took the photos and scanned through them. He suddenly caught sight of a photo taken at the front desk, where a woman was standing next to Jay. Even though it had been more than a year since he last saw her, Jared recognized the woman right away.

Selena.

She was Connor’s daughter, and Jared had thrown her into jail a year and a half earlier. He didn’t realize that she had been released.

Why would Selena and Jay appear at the front desk of the hotel?

“Investigate this girl’s contact with Jay.” Jared pointed at them.

With a clear direction, they quickly completed the investigation of all the surveillance cameras in the hotel. It was three hours later when they saw a recording of Jay carrying clothes with him as he went into Selena’s room.

Now, the truth was out in the open. The real mastermind behind Ellen’s defamation was Selena, who had just gotten out of prison.

Jared delivered a forceful punch to the table. Connor’s daughter still hadn’t learned her lesson. She was just released from prison not too long ago but was already targeting Ellen again.

Apparently, the year-and-a-half sentence was too short for her.

“Collect all the evidence. I’ll deal with it tomorrow.” Now that Jared had an answer, he was no longer panicking. He would make every single one of them pay.

…

Ellen sat in front of the French windows as she gazed at the neon lights outside, deep in thought.

Just then, she heard some noises coming from the door. She was instantly filled with joy, for he had returned.

She didn’t care about the fights and chaos going on outside; she just didn’t want him to overwork himself for her sake.

“You’re home.” Ellen ran up to Jared and threw her arms around him.

Jared embraced her lovingly. She was so kind, but people kept trying to harm her. He was undoubtedly furious about that.

“We’ve got our answer. The one slandering you behind the scenes is Connor’s daughter, Selena,” Jared explained honestly.

Ellen looked up in shock. “Selena? Is she out of jail already?”

“She was probably released not too long ago. She seduced the head judge, who then contacted Alden Thomas so that he would slander you.”

Anger flashed across Ellen’s eyes. This morning, Ellen had just learned from Jared over breakfast that Selena went to jail. She was shocked, but she hoped Selena would turn over a new leaf. However, reality proved otherwise.

Some people were rotten to the core, and this was something no amount of imprisonment could change.

Selena would rather sleep with a man of her father’s age and think of all sorts of ways to harm and slander Ellen. This was unforgivable.

“Don’t worry. She deserves to be in jail for the rest of her life, and I won’t let her off the hook!” Jared caressed the back of Ellen’s head as he comforted her.

“Okay. This time, I want to see her getting jailed in person.” Ellen decided she would not be soft-hearted anymore, even if it meant cutting off ties with her uncle.

…

Early in the morning, Jay was sleeping soundly inside the hotel when he heard someone knocking on the door. Feeling a little annoyed, he opened the door to see a few uniformed men standing outside.

“Is… something the matter?”

“Jay Harris, please come with us.”

“W-What happened? Did I break the law?”

“We have a warrant for your arrest.”

Before Jay could react, he was handcuffed. He never thought that the police would come knocking on his door, and he couldn’t figure out why no matter how much he racked his brains.

Meanwhile, in another room, Alden was arrested as well.

not tell her parents about the incident until the police came knocking

so shocked that their faces turned pale. Their daughter had been in

“Is Selena Aguirre home?”

What happened? Has she done anything

her to come

she opened the door, Selena was still sleeping. Olivia shouted, “Wake up, Lena! What did you do this time,

did I do?” Selena shouted

Olivia said, her eyes red

panicked as

if anything

you mess with

jail again. I was just getting a little revenge on her, and it was supposed to be a

daughter had gotten into trouble again, and

questions at the door. The police said straightforwardly, “Your daughter is suspected of

will never do such a

have obtained sufficient evidence, and we’re arresting her according to the law.

came in to arrest her. She turned around and looked pleadingly at her father. “Dad, please talk to Ellen. Ask her to forgive me and let me off the hook! I

regretting it to the core as she didn’t want

was so mad that he stepped forward and slapped Selena across the face. “Since when

I won’t let you go to jail again,” Olivia promised through tears

had turned tense and terrifying simply because her daughter did something wrong again. Olivia was regretting it now. How could her daughter be so clumsy? She thought

all hope on his daughter. He had clearly made the wrong decision by allowing her to study abroad. Selena never learned anything related to her studies and absorbed all the negative

could just suffer early in life, then get married and live the rest of her life in security. It would be much better than her life right

is at risk,” Olivia said angrily. Last time, their daughter had been jailed for a year and a half because Connor

where could he possibly look for Ellen? If he had to run around looking for people,

to her tomorrow morning.” Connor couldn’t be bothered about his daughter

her daughter’s fault for being a loser. She had lived most of her life in bliss, but she had to worry about her daughter in her old age. She wondered if that was

that they had slandered Ellen, and they only began panicking

them, this was just a joke, so how could they get

realized that this wasn’t

someone else, wishing they

in, Jay happened to be leaving the interrogation room at the same time. The moment he saw Selena walking in his direction, he pointed at her and said angrily, “It’s her. She’s the

There was no escaping now, and she even felt

an instant. In the videos,

were already faced with apologies from the people who started the rumors. The

entire process, the police also announced how the slander started and

an instant, the fans realized that Ellen was the true victim. She deserved every bit of her championship, and she most certainly

game Ellen played in the finals. They were amazed at Ellen’s skill in chess, and it was proof

acknowledged. After the ruckus online, she was now receiving a

too tired last night, so she only woke up at 10.00AM this morning. As soon as she got

startled by the sudden noise. Without another word, Ellen walked toward him

“Thank you!”

most sincere thanks as he reached up and caressed the back of

he kissed her forehead. “I’ve said before that I won’t let anyone

him.

did not

a peck on the cheek, then said, “I’m going to answer the

“Alright, go ahead.”

and

“Hello, Nicholas.”

claiming to be your uncle came to

uncle looking for her? Did he want to beg

it’s me, your Uncle Connor. Can we meet up? Lena was foolish and made a mistake. Can we

talk about. Selena did something wrong, so she should bear the

again! Her life shouldn’t be ruined like this! I’m your uncle,

she’ll learn to become a decent person and respect others.” Ellen wouldn’t give in this time, regardless of the person asking

up the phone and sighed gently. In the end, her uncle

rang out gently behind her, comforting Ellen as he said, “You did the right thing. There’s no need for

who had walked toward her. She

call came in. When Ellen saw that it was from the producer

“Hello, Miss Lane.”

free tomorrow night? We can proceed with the interview, so I’d like

Wasn’t it canceled?” Ellen was

best time to interview you,” Miss Lane said a little excitedly. Ellen’s popularity

but I think we should cancel

Are you really going to pass it up?” Miss Lane asked

I’m giving up.” Ellen nodded. She now realized that fame was exhausting and being herself in her quiet corner of the

you.” Miss Lane persisted. Ellen was in the spotlight now,

pair of arms wrapped around her from behind, and the

don’t you want

don’t want to live under the attention of others. I just want to stay with you and live the rest of our lives in peace,” Ellen answered

Simple, clean social circles and connections

in Connor’s home, they could only sit

to get her number. Moreover, the team had left Averna

are you so

it but didn’t dare pick it up. Olivia thought it was a call from Ellen, who decided

to answer. Seeing that, Olivia reached out to grab his phone. Connor didn’t think she would try to snatch it, so he became even more panicked

and have dinner!

the phone, while a strong look of panic colored Connor’s face. Connor hastily ended the

gritted teeth, the fury already

the wrong number,” Connor said

from me? Do you have a

roared at her, “I told you they got the wrong number! Why are you

“Connor, you b*stard! You got yourself a son with another woman just because I can’t give you one, didn’t you? You’re

hide this any longer, Connor sat down on the

She knew that if her husband never had much money all this while, he wouldn’t have dared to cheat on her. That

frenzy, shaking him as she interrogated, “Who is that

he wouldn’t tell Olivia. He gritted his teeth and stubbornly refused to say

already devoted to your illegitimate

knew he had done something wrong. He remained silent as

she knew that she had to accept the truth even though it was a tough pill to

is that child?”

“Nine,” replied Connor.

thought every man in this world would cheat, but her husband was the only exception. Little did she know his illegitimate child was nine years old already. That meant that he had already cheated on her ten years

who is that b*tch?!”

I’ll kill her as soon as I find out who she is,”

only come

than ten years ago. She never thought

retribution is

paled in comparison to getting treated like that by distant relatives. How dare Aida seduce her husband and

give

for her. I gave her five million in total,” Connor said truthfully. He lived frugally at home, but

so furious that her chest throbbed in pain, and she couldn’t

still being detained at the police station, and now, she discovered her husband had cheated on her and had an illegitimate child with a homewrecker. Her days were spent

had enjoyed life for 16 years in the past while living in materialistic luxury, but

use—just get Lena out of there!” Olivia roared. Her daughter

“I’ll look for

Connor didn’t have a clue. He could only call up

“Hello, who is it?”

it’s me, Connor Aguirre. I was wondering if I could get

cannot tell you that.” On the other end of the line, Benjamin hung up

was regretting everything he had done, but regret wasn’t going to help anything. They were now getting retribution

to ask

she tapped her feet.

didn’t save her, only jail awaited

shouldn’t have tested Ellen’s patience. She wanted to live in the beautiful and

…

romantic dinner to lift Ellen’s mood. Because of the slander, Ellen had been

a message from Benjamin, informing him that Connor

glanced at it, then replied,

had always gone too

hotel for a vacation so

to see a short video posted online where Connor was talking to the camera, asking to contact

earnestly to meet Ellen, evoking a lot of sympathy

ill, and

an instant, the

seen him in a year or so, and he had aged a lot. Ellen sighed lightly as she recalled

no choice but to have mercy. Now that she

another reason why Ellen didn’t want to turn completely against her uncle and his family. She believed in

her brother’s heart donation back then, if

out her phone and dialed Connor’s number, which was saved on

of the line, Connor picked up and spoke in an exhausted

me, Uncle Connor,”

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