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

asked anxiously. Her big, bright eyes

shopping. She absent-mindedly wandered around the mall with Elizabeth for a while and then went back

Ethan shrugged off his coat and put his

Charis’s name, she couldn’t say she was

she really hate me that

and everyone knew

even I never thought she’d

the same as how she tackled business—she’d do everything she

stuck

she stopped in her tracks and got frustrated at herself.

down. “You two have known each other a long time. Will

goes unpunished, she’ll only take it as encouragement to keep going further. You’ve been in danger so many times. First, the car accident. Then 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