The Ex and Her Riches

As Charles sat on the guest room’s bed, a sense of worry gnawed his heart.

He knew Craig far too well. The man was paranoid and an overthinker. He knew that Craig was not going to believe him so easily

With that thought in mind, he sent Cedrick a message.

The next morning, at the Newton residence’s dining room, everyone was silently having their breakfast.

Only the sounds of cutlery against crockery filled the huge dining room.

After what seemed like forever, Craig said, “Charles, since you’re back, I’ll be announcing to the public that you’re still alive. I’ll hold a welcome party for you.”

Charles furrowed his brows and replied, “But Craig, if Cedrick finds out about this, he’ll surely try to capture me and send me back to the secret interrogation room to torture me.”

Upon noticing Charles’ nervousness, Craig let down his guard a little.

“Don’t leave the Newton residence before the welcome party. I’ll guarantee your safety.”

“But, Craig…”

“No.” Craig firmly said. “You told me that you were going to heed my orders. Have you already forgotten about that?”

At that, Charles had no choice but to reply, “All right.”

“Come to the study two hours later. I have something I want you to do.”

“Okay.”

Silence returned to the dining room.

After the meal, Jasmine went back to the Jenson family’s Harrick Villa. She was forced to go and check on Jennifer.

Meanwhile, Lucas bitterly went to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to work. He had been the errand boy for the past two days, and he was about to collapse from exhaustion. His grudge against Craig only became even more intense.

Meanwhile, Craig felt better, and he could somewhat walk on his own, albeit slowly.

Thus, he went to the study to deal with Newton Group’s quarterly financial statement.

A few minutes later, the bodyguard knocked on the room door.

Craig, we’ve done our investigation. Mr. Charles went to Angle yesterday in

icily

was discreetly kicked out

for a while. “Then

“No.”

to a

respectful bow, the bodyguard

later, Charles came

a plan? Is that why you

to smile at Charles. “Yes, I’ll be assigning you a

was done giving his instructions to Charles, Charles had a somber

me to poison

said, “Why do you sound surprised? Didn’t you say that you’d do anything so that

“But…”

I be caught on the spot, but Newton Group’s shares will be affected too. The Newton family won’t be able to escape this, so

one knows about this drug. It’s a prohibited drug I purchased from overseas, and it’s colorless and odorless. It’ll only take effect

tough drug to be detected, why do you want

of his cigarette

shot you, so she must be feeling guilty. If you do this, you’ll be able to get Gwendolyn to pass

kept his hands behind his back as he stood with a

the present. “You made me a promise yesterday,

you say. I’ll make sure everything goes

“Good.”

the chair as

his head back, he gazed at the rising smoke

the party, you’ll have to hand in all

before fishing out the old phone model from his pocket and putting it

have. If you don’t believe me, you can send the bodyguards to check

and

having only gone abroad to study was

under suspicion for Charles’ murder. However, the chaos was kept minimal because of

alive, those rumors would

couch, watching the news of the Newton

the washed strawberries into

that he’d use the identity of Charles Newton and take back his old life