Chapter 167 Tricked

“Weren’t you wearing it this morning and staunchly refused to return it to Jonathan? Don’t you remember?” Josephine couldn’t help feeling a tad suspicious at the panicked expression on Margaret’s face.

“Oh, you’re referring to that watch?” It was as though something suddenly occurred to Margaret. “I took it off this morning before leaving home and placed it on the table!”

“You placed it on the table?” Josephine swept a gaze over the table in bewilderment, but there was only an empty box there.

Huh? There’s no watch there.

Upon glimpsing the dubious look in her eyes, Margaret uneasily changed her tune. “Perhaps I took it off when I took a shower but forgot where I put it. I’ll look for it when I’m free.”

“You’re not lying to me, are you, Mom?” Josephine regarded her skeptically.

She took it off but forgot where she put it? After so many years, I know her all too well! She would never bear to take off a watch worth over ten million. Instead, she would probably flaunt it everywhere, afraid that people wouldn’t know that she was wearing such an expensive watch!

Hearing that, Margaret snorted and retorted, “Why would I do so? It’s just a worthless watch, no? Did you think I sold it off secretly?”

“That’s not what I meant, Mom—”

Surprise flooded Josephine at Margaret’s intense reaction.

I was merely asking about it, so why did she react so strongly?

“Okay, stop talking about that! It’s merely a worthless watch, isn’t it? I’ll just pay him back if I misplaced it!” Margaret harrumphed, cutting Josephine off mid-utterance and giving her no chance to speak.

to speak further, but Margaret threw her a hard

no other choice, she could only heave a

heading to the study.She still had a ton of unfinished work regarding the construction site,

to stand up. Unexpectedly, Margaret called him

“Jonathan!”

Jonathan turned

million?” Margaret eyed him dubiously as though she didn’t believe that a

to bandy words with her. If Josephine weren’t her daughter, I wouldn’t even deign to spare her a

Not only that,

that?” Jonathan likewise frowned

tell me she took the watch to some expert and had

said that such cheap imitations are so common in the

straight

price it at over ten million? If someone were to

Margaret instantly rebutted

you going to say?” Jonathan

of the tongue, Margaret hastily clapped a hand over

that watch, didn’t you? I was simply restraining myself from exposing you when Josephine was here earlier.” Jonathan exposed her

She even claimed to have taken it off and forgotten where she placed

nonsense are you spouting, Jonathan? When did I sell that watch off? Don’t you slander

me where the watch is!” Jonathan spat since he couldn’t be bothered to

believe such a lie! If all else fails, I can ask for the surveillance footage right now and see

Margaret flew into a tizzy the second she

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