Chapter 158 At What Cost?
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Lauren spoke quietly, recounting the painful memories of her past–memories that no longer left a trace on her face, as if her heart had been completely frozen by the pain. “I’ve paid a price so steep, like breaking legs and digging out kidneys, it should be enough to repay the kindness of being born to your parents.”
Elliot knew that everything Lauren said was true, but she was, after all, their biological child. Pointing at Felix, he exclaimed, “Can you really be so heartless? Ignoring even our parents‘ wellbeing to be with this murderer?”
Lauren fell silent. Mr. Brooker is so kind, so outstanding any woman would find it hard not to be moved.
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she knew, with all her scars, she didn’t deserve someone like him.
Her silence seemed like an admission to Elliot.
Suddenly losing control, he shouted at Lauren, “You’re an adult; how can you not even distinguish right from wrong? Do you know how much it hurts to have your legs broken?”
Lauren’s response was a laugh, sarcastic and sharp like a knife, piercing directly into Elliot’s eyes.
His pupils contracted sharply as his gaze fell on Lauren’s broken legs.
In that moment, he seemed to lose all his strength, his figure drooping, looking even more wan and pained
No one knew the pain of having legs forcibly broken better than Lauren–she had experienced it firsthand…
Lauren’s voice was firm, “I believe that your parents‘ injuries have nothing to do with Mr. Brooker.”
She looked at Felix
Felix, with a hint of a smile in his eyes, indulged her, “It has nothing to do with me.”
Josh quickly added, “I can vouch for that; Mr. Brooker hasn’t even seen the Bennetts today”
What Felix and Josh said was indeed the truth.
Lauren had no doubts about this, as she had seen David and Alice at the hotel earlier that day.
They had been full of life then.
What happened after that, perhaps only the driver knew.
She, Felix, and Josh all looked at the driver. True to Felix’s people, under the intense scrutiny of three pairs of eyes, the driver remained calm and undisturbed, stating. “The Bennetts fell down the stairs and broke their legs.”
Lauren, Felix, and Josh fell silent at the same time.
“Bullshit!” Elliot yelled at the driver.
The hotel’s entrance steps were hardly ten steps high; even a real fall would at most cause scrapes, not break legs, especially not both people at the same time.
“You can ask the security guard who’s been at the door all this time if I’m lying, the driver said calmly.
The commotion had not escaped the security team’s watchful eyes.
Hearing his name, the head of security’s heart pounded as he hurried over, his face all smiles, “Mr. Elliot, Mr. David and his wife really did fall down the steps on their own and broke their legs. We all saw it.”
The security guards at the hotel entrance, all echoing each other, said in unison, “Yes, we all saw it.”
Elliot’s eyes widened in disbelief. Despite the impossibility, everyone insisted it was true.
Lauren’s lips curled into a playful smirk, a feeling Elliot was surely familiar with.
Chapter 158 A1 What Cost?
Elliot met Lauren’s half–smiling gaze. his heart feeling as if it had been stabbed, the pain almost suffocating him.
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The pain spread through his body, the suffocating feeling of knowing the truth but having no evidence overwhelming him.
He abruptly looked up to search for surveillance cameras, but Felix’s cold voice rang out, “My people are very thorough in
their work.
The implication was clear; even if there were cameras, the footage would have been deleted.
Just like five years ago, when Alice had deleted footage that could have proved Lauren’s innocence.
Felix always enjoyed using others‘ tactics against them.
The fountain 30 feet away suddenly lit up, startling the koi in the pond and shattering the water into sparkling splashes.
In the flickering light, Felix casually played with his signet ring, telling the driver, “Well done; your year–end bonus is doubled”
A smile finally appeared on the driver’s stern face. “Thanks, Mr. Brooker.
After a pause, he surned to Lauren, “All thanks to Ms. Bennett’s luck.”
The blatant provocation nearly made Elliot faint. “You you”
The dim, yellow light of the street lamps elongated and then shortened the shadow of Elliot’s disheveled figure.
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