Ryan lowered his eyes, spinning the pen of power between his slender fingers.

The others glanced at Mrs. Hoffman's outburst, shaking their heads with a hint of contempt in their eyes.

"Zoe disappeared on her way to the hospital for treatment, and no one has seen her since then! You must have taken her!"

Mrs. Hoffman stormed up to Ryan. She slammed her hands on the table repeatedly, ignoring the presence of the board members.

"Ryan! Send my daughter back to me! Or else... I'll call a shareholders' meeting and kick you out of the Hoffman Group! Send Zoe back to me!"

Ryan stopped spinning the pen in his fingers. However, he did not lift his gaze to look at his distressed mother.

"Mrs. Hoffman, what are you doing?"

Unable to bear the scene any longer, a fellow director spoke up. "Ms. Hoffman might've disappeared because she jumped out of the car when the officers weren't looking. If you want to make a fuss, go to the police."

"Exactly. We're in the middle of a board meeting. You shouldn't bring up your trivial family matters here. It will damage the Hoffman Group's reputation."

"Trivial family matters?"

Mrs. Hoffman's eyes widened. She looked as if she was about to attack someone. "Is that all you can say about this matter? Are you heartless? If it were your child, would you still be so indifferent?!" The directors fell silent, shocked by her words.

The directors thought that Mrs. Hoffman, the matriarch of the Hoffman family, had never been so irrational when her husband was still alive. Being a young widow seemed to have driven her to the brink of madness.

As the key person behind Claire's outburst, Ryan finally spoke with calm authority.

"That's all for today. Meeting adjourned."

"Yes, Chairman Hoffman!"

quickly rose and left the room, eager to escape

blow to her head. It made her earlier outburst seem even more

everyone left, the meeting room grew cold and

you kidnap Zoe? Where did you take her?!" Mrs. Hoffman demanded,

filthy garbage," Ryan responded with

Zoe back to me!

me as your mother.

watched her

knew how to spoil her daughter without any proper upbringing, had been weak and easily bullied her whole life. Yet now, she bristled with all her spikes to

was her flesh and

it seemed that she had forgotten

on his shoulders, ensuring his widowed mother

to the police and report you then! I'll expose your abuse and kidnapping of your sister to the media! I'll make sure public opinions condemn

Clatter.

play on the screen. Zoe's desperate cries and pleas for mercy echoed throughout the

watched the three men assault her daughter repeatedly. She

"My daughter... My daughter!"

not your daughter! She's the monster

a human being. Mrs. Hoffman, I know you must be heartbroken right now. Well, She is your daughter after all. Go ahead

completely lost

and gnashing her teeth. Her legs gave out, and

Hoffman, I've arranged for Mrs. Hoffman to take your private elevator directly to the VIP parking lot. I guarantee she won't encounter

for that. Let her walk out through the

the wowsing figure cast a floor-to-ceiling window. "Since she walked in through the main

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