After hearing that, Elissa’s hand suddenly trembled and the ash tumbled to the floor.

“Did he say anything at all?”

All of a sudden, she opened her eyes wide and turned to look at Ritchie in panic. Ritchie’s face darkened visibly. He lowered the volume of his voice and asked, “Mom, were you behind this?”

Even though he had his doubts, he hadn’t been able to confirm them yet. Elissa swallowed nervously. She was very anxious now and was willing to tell Ritchie the truth.

“I was the one behind it. I even used our men. I thought we would succeed in getting rid of Sebastian this time. As long as he’s dead, even if the authorities wanted to investigate this matter, with the Klein family’s connections, we could sort things out and shift the blame to the constructors. We could arrange it so that it looks like an accident,” Elissa said as cold sweat poured from her forehead. She had been keeping a close eye on this matter the whole time and knew that investigation had just begun.

Ritchie became anxious almost at once. He clenched his teeth tightly and said, “Mom, do you have any idea how serious this matter is getting? I get it you want to get rid of Sebastian, and so do I. But the truth is Sebastian didn’t die and he’s now even helping the police with the investigation! The government and the public have attached great importance to this matter and they won’t stop any time soon. These days, those hurt in the incident keep showing up at our company, protesting. This means they know that the Klein family has something to do with the accident! This happens to be no small matter. I heard that a total of more than a dozen audience members and staff was injured or even died in the accident!”

Ritchie said, “If this happened in Seacisco, we could probably do something about this and get away with it. But no, this happened in Barnes! Mom, what in the world were you thinking?”

The Klein family had a lot of power in Seacisco, but not in Barnes. Now that Sebastian had reported the Klein family to the police, the police thought they were persons of interest now. In a panic, Elissa made her way out of her room and went down the stairs anxiously. Seeing that there was no one downstairs, she shook from head to toe with fear again.

“Why isn’t your father back yet?” Ritchie followed her downstairs and answered, “Dad should still be at the company. This matter has kept him busy for the past few days.”

During the entire dinner, Elissa was feeling listless. Just as she was feeling tortured by news updates, the sound of a car engine came from outside. A few minutes later, Patrick walked in with his suit jacket in his hands, looking clearly exhausted. Elissa made her way up to him uneasily and wanted to take the suit jacket from him.

“Patrick, why are you back so late?” Patrick angrily glanced at Elissa and suddenly it looked like he had snapped. He threw the suit jacket at her face and said, “Bitch! Were you the one who sent people to kill Sebastian?”

was thrown at Elissa’s face, and the huge force forced her to take a few steps back. Frightened by Pattrick’s fury,

intimidating

so scared out of her wits that her heart seemed to have stopped in her chest. She clutched Patrick’s suit jacket tightly and fell to her

me.” Elissa knew that she couldn’t hide it anymore, so she admitted to her

and slapped her across the face without warning. The servants who were cleaning up the table nearly jumped at the loud sound and quickly scurried out of the room like

woman! Even after so many years, you haven’t changed at all!” Patrick roared

is still my son. Even if I never liked him, I’ve never thought of killing him! Moreover, he’s the president of

his teeth in anger. He had known for a long time now that Elissa was not a kind person. Ever since she had married into the Klein family, she had

Sebastian. I didn’t care what you did to him in the past. But now, he’s

stop to think about the consequences you’ve brought upon the Klein

done in the past didn’t endanger the interests

Group was a force to be reckoned with and

stinging cheek, Elissa glared at Patrick with hatred. Her eyes were so sharp, they could’ve pierced through

her whole life. How dare he slap her in the face? She

married into the Klein family, Patrick was just the owner of a small, developing company. If it weren’t for her family’s support, could

dare you hit me?!” Elissa flew into a

me now? If you hadn’t fooled around with all those women back

that he rolled up his sleeves to deliver another slap across her

you hit me again?! I’ll kill you, Patrick Klein!” Elissa’s face was red and swollen from Patrick’s slaps. She shrieked and raised her hands to scratch Patrick’s cheeks. Regardless of their noble image, the couple fought each other in the living room

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