The Mysterious Billionaire and His Substitute Bride

Without saying anything more, Ethan stood up abruptly and left the interrogation room.

Now, he understood everything.

The pieces of the puzzle were coming together. If Charis was the mastermind behind everything that had happened, then everything made sense.

Back in Seacisco where everything started, the only family that was powerful enough to do all those things without leaving a trace was the Turners.

And the Turner family had some connections in Barnes as well. Although it couldn’t compare to how many connections they had in Seacisco, money made the world go round. It wouldn’t have been hard for Charis to clean up her trail.

Ethan had thought that Charis would stop after he warned her, but he was wrong.

He was ruthless to anyone who crossed the line, even if the culprit was his former classmate and partner.

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Janet immediately stood up and approached

Her big,

what had happened today, she lost her appetite for shopping. She absent-mindedly wandered around the mall with Elizabeth for a while and then went back

coat and put his arm around Janet’s shoulders. “I have to go back to Seacisco for a

Hearing Charis’s name, she couldn’t

really hate me that

and everyone knew it. It had been so long, Janet thought

fickle when it came to relationships, but even I never thought she’d do all these horrible things,” Ethan

she tackled business—she’d do everything she had to just to achieve her

well, don’t you?” Janet stuck out her lower

at herself. She was already married to

and calmed herself down. “You two have known each other a

the kidnapping. Maybe she was behind all those. What’s terrible about all these is that she never has to get her own hands dirty. She uses others to do her dirty work and then they take the fall.” Ethan’s tone grew gloomy and his eyes darkened. “She has tried to hurt you