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.

spent the night at her parent’s house that day. She dared not tell her parents about the incident until the police

that their faces turned pale. Their daughter had been in

“Is Selena Aguirre home?”

My daughter is home. What

need her to come

her daughter’s room. When she opened the door, Selena was still sleeping. Olivia shouted, “Wake up,

I do?” Selena

said,

as she

hand, saying, “Mom, if anything happens to me, ask

Did you mess

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

had gotten into trouble

suspected of seducing someone and receiving 15,000

Impossible. My daughter will never do

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

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

as she didn’t want

that he stepped forward and slapped Selena across the face. “Since when have

we’ll definitely beg Ellen for mercy. I won’t let you go to jail again,” Olivia promised through tears as she went down the stairs

now. How could her daughter be so clumsy? She thought Selena would turn over a new leaf, but the

given up 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 habits

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

their daughter had been jailed for a year and

look for Ellen? If he had to run around looking for people, it would be too taxing

tomorrow morning.” Connor

her daughter’s fault for being a loser. She had lived most of her life in bliss, but

Alden and Jay stubbornly refused to admit that they had slandered Ellen, and they only began panicking when evidence

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

they quickly realized that this wasn’t a joke; they were actually being

to blame it on someone else,

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

him, she knew that the end was inevitable. There was no escaping now, and she even felt like dying at

videos, Alden and Jay behaved with utmost sincerity

championship, and before they could even recover themselves, they were already faced with apologies from the people who started the rumors. The development was so fast that

standing behind him. After Alden revealed the entire process, the police also announced how the slander started and how it

fans realized that Ellen was the true victim. She deserved every bit of her championship, and she most certainly did not buy her way

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

acknowledged. After the ruckus

woke up at 10.00AM this morning. As soon as she got up, she stumbled across articles about herself. When she saw that her

Without another word, Ellen walked toward him and spread out her slender arms, then wrapped them tightly around his neck. She nuzzled into his shoulder as

“Thank you!”

reached up and caressed

forehead. “I’ve said before that I

raised her beautiful eyes to look at him. His words were

around, she did

phone ringing. She gave him a peck on the cheek, then said, “I’m

“Alright, go ahead.”

on the couch and answered the call from the

“Hello, Nicholas.”

be your uncle came

uncle looking for her? Did he want to beg

anxiously. “Ellie, it’s me, your Uncle

Selena did something wrong, so she

can’t go back again!

the price for her own actions. That way, she’ll learn to become a decent person and respect others.” Ellen wouldn’t give in this time, regardless

the phone and sighed gently. In

out gently behind her, comforting Ellen as he said,

man who had walked

that it was from the producer at the TV station, she hesitated for a moment

“Hello, Miss Lane.”

can proceed with the interview, so

Wasn’t it canceled?” Ellen

Miss Lane said a little excitedly. Ellen’s popularity was booming

think we should cancel the interview. I’m feeling a little tired, and I

a rare chance for you to become famous! Are you really going to pass it up?” Miss Lane asked in

and being herself in her quiet corner

you run into any trouble? It’s okay, we can solve it for you.” Miss Lane persisted. Ellen was

put down the phone, a pair of arms wrapped around her from behind, and the man gazed at her in approval. He was surprised that despite her young age, she had resisted the

want more fame?”

don’t want to live under the attention of others. I just want to stay with you and live the

outside. Simple, clean social circles and connections were

they could only sit around

and they didn’t even manage to get her number. Moreover, the team had

so useless?!”

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

phone in slight nervousness, but he stubbornly refused 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 started fighting back. Suddenly, a boy’s voice cut through

Dad, where are you? Come over and have dinner! Mom

look of panic colored Connor’s face. Connor hastily ended the

child is it?” Olivia asked through gritted teeth, the

gotten the wrong number,”

a child with another woman?” Olivia asked in a shrill

admit it as he roared at her, “I told you they got

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

couldn’t hide this any longer, Connor sat down on

much money all this while,

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

protect his son, so he wouldn’t tell Olivia. He gritted his

a thousand deaths! No wonder you don’t care about Lena anymore; you’re already devoted to your illegitimate son!” The more Olivia spoke, the more pitiful she felt.

silent as he allowed Olivia to hit and shout

down sometime after her outburst. She was already in her 50s, so she knew that she had to

that child?” she

“Nine,” replied Connor.

every man in this world would cheat, but her husband was the only exception. Little did she know his illegitimate child was nine

who is that b*tch?!”

kill her as soon as I find out who she

could only come clean. “It’s

who had divorced more than ten years ago. She never thought that

is this?! she

treated like that by distant relatives. How

you give

gave her five million in total,” Connor said truthfully. He lived

in pain, and she couldn’t catch her breath. She felt that her life

police station, and now, she discovered her husband had cheated on her and had an illegitimate child with a homewrecker. Her days were spent in poverty, and she was already 52 years

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

what methods you use—just get Lena out of there!” Olivia roared. Her daughter was her only

nodded. “I’ll look for

had gone, Connor didn’t have a clue. He could only call up Benjamin, who had

“Hello, who is it?”

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

On the other end of the line,

wasn’t going to help anything. They

no right to ask Ellen

was trembling as she tapped her feet. She was waiting anxiously and nervously for her father

father didn’t save her, only

was truly regretting it now, and she was scared. She shouldn’t have tested Ellen’s patience. She wanted to live in the beautiful and vibrant world outside instead

mood. Because of the slander, Ellen had been a

a message from Benjamin, informing him that Connor

it, then

Aguirres had always

a seaside hotel for a vacation so that she could

message on her phone. She opened it to see a short video posted online where Connor was talking to the

eyes as he begged earnestly to meet Ellen, evoking a lot of sympathy from netizens. He was trying to force Ellen to meet him

terminally ill, and

the entire internet was looking for Ellen,

in front of the camera. She hadn’t seen him in a year

no choice but to have mercy. Now that

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

was in the dark about her brother’s heart donation back then, if Connor

phone and dialed Connor’s

On the other end of the line, Connor picked up and spoke

me, Uncle Connor,” Ellen

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