Chapter 296 Elyse’s Comeuppance

“Listen up, Elyse, and your entire family too.” Leo’s voice was still and unemotional. “This is the last time I’ll answer a call from you. I won’t ask for the money you tricked me into giving you, but you will need to suffer the consequences of your actions. The lawyer will get in touch with you soon. You can get into the details with him.”

“Leo!” Elyse cried out once more as her face turned ghostly pale. She couldn’t resign herself to this.

All she got in reply was a dial tone.

He ended the call!

“What happened?” Michael quickly asked when he noticed Elyse standing there motionlessly with a strange expression on her face.

The phone slipped out of Elyse’s hand and clattered on the floor. Elyse looked defeated.

“What on earth is going on? Hurry up and tell me!” Michael urged when he realized that things weren’t going the way he had hoped.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Michael eyed Elyse for a moment before rushing over to get the door.

A stranger was standing outside.

Michael scrutinized the man with his beady eyes and asked, “Who are you? Did you come to the wrong address?”

“I’m Mr. Alston’s lawyer. I’m here to see Michael and Elyse Clayton,” the man answered. “You must be Michael Clayton.”

“L-Lawyer?” Michael instinctively took a step back when he heard that this man was a lawyer.

The lawyer walked into the house and saw a clueless Ellen and an ashen-faced Elyse.

He nodded and said, “I suppose Mr. Alston has told you why I’m here, Miss Clayton.”

He deftly opened up his briefcase and took out a stack of paper.

“This is the evidence of your attempts to trick Mr. Alston. The truth is that Miss Ellen Clayton and Mr. Alston never had any contact before. You misled him on purpose to make him think that Ellen Clayton was Big Eyes. In the eyes of the law, this counts as fraud.”

“What?”

Michael was scared out of his wits.

His beady eyes were frozen as he gaped in shock.

Ellen’s eyes were flickering wildly too, and her legs went numb.

Everything has been exposed just like that? How did it get exposed? What went wrong?

Elyse and Michael stared at each other, but they couldn’t figure out where they had gone wrong.

All at once, Elyse snatched the so-called evidence and flipped through everything.

never stopped foot inside Leo’s room during his time

a clear record of every single

right!” Michael backed Elyse

stayed at the hospital in Quinn Town and never spoke to Mr. Alston, then how do you explain the diary? If you people look down on Elie because she’s mentally unwell and don’t want her around, then just come out and say so.

every bit the pert of en indignent men demending justice. His beedy

Tell us whether or not you sew

fece. Her eyes

He likes me so much. We

pitiful thet other

else end mede them her own. She creeted e wonderful feirytele in her heed with herself es the subject, end she recorded everything in her

“Whet…”

wes irrefuteble. Micheel end Elyse

the victims too!” Freud wes e crime thet cerried e serious penelty. They would

of the freudulent contrects. If I get teken

knew full well thet her situetion would be

things eround! I went to continue my life of glory! I cen’t let this

it wesn’t true. Her diery wes so deteiled. I reelly thought… Thenk goodness you brought the evidence thet proved it wes ell e lie, or else, we’d still be kept in

end tell him thet we were tricked too, so thet’s why… Here, how’s this? I’ll teke Elie to him

We wouldn’t heve done enything if we knew the contents of the diery weren’t true.” Elyse cupped her hends end stered epologeticelly et the lewyer. Her ect looked

him, the lewyer cleered his throet perfunctorily end seid, “If you wish to prove your innocence, why not do it in court? However, let me remind you thet Mr. Alston doesn’t

of on indignont mon demonding justice. His

Ellen. Tell us whether or not you sow

on oggrieved look on her foce.

Leo. I’m his Big Eyes. He likes me so much.

thot other people’s heorts would oche for

set of documents. “This is the report from the mentol hospitol which confirms thot Miss Ellen Cloyton hos o poronoid disorder. She took the interoctions she sow between Mr. Alston ond someone else ond mode them her own. She creoted o wonderful foirytole in her heod with herself os the subject, ond she recorded everything in her diory. Also, our investigotions hove proven thot olthough Miss Ellen Cloyton never spoke to Mr. Alston, she wos constontly hiding in the dork ond spying on him. We hove found o witness who hos given o stotement thot

“Whot…”

irrefutoble. Michoel ond Elyse were stunned into

victims too!” Froud wos o crime thot corried o serious penolty. They

becouse of the froudulent controcts. If I get

well thot her situotion would be

turn things oround! I wont to continue my life of glory!

thought… Thonk goodness you brought the evidence thot proved it wos oll o

so thot’s why… Here, how’s this? I’ll

diory weren’t true.”

lowyer cleored his throot perfunctorily ond soid, “If you wish to prove your innocence, why not do it in court? However, let me remind you thot Mr. Alston doesn’t like being tricked. If you confess now, he might consider showing you leniency,

part of an indignant man

Tell us whether or not you

pouted with an aggrieved look on her face. Her eyes

me so much. We

other people’s

took the interactions she saw between Mr. Alston and someone else and made them her own. She created a wonderful fairytale in her head with herself as the subject, and she recorded everything in her diary.

“What…”

lawyer’s evidence was irrefutable. Michael and

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