Chapter 397 Discovery
Patrick wasn’t as easy to talk to. An hour before Susan’s call, he had already learned the truth. He knew everything that had happened in the Reed family over the past few days. Now, facing Susan’s request for money to treat Lillian, he lost all patience. “Susan, are you out of your mind?”
“She’s not even blood–related to us, and she almost got Stella killed.”
Patrick was furious. So much chaos had happened recently in the Reed family. As far as he was concerned, it was all because Susan had mishandled the younger generation.
Her blatant favoritism toward Lillian had led to this mess.
“And you still want to cure her? What the hell are you thinking?”
His anger burst through the phone line, making Susan shudder. Faced with Patrick’s fury, Susan held back for a moment–but then she snapped too.
“So what am I supposed to do? I raised her myself. Am I just supposed to watch her die?”
She couldn’t do it. She really couldn’t. Just thinking about Lillian possibly dying because she couldn’t get the medicine made Susan’s chest tighten with panic.
Patrick said, “That’s your problem. Don’t drag the rest of us into it. Thirty million–do you think any of us can come up with that kind of money right now?”
Thirty million wasn’t a joke. Even in the old days of the Reed family, that kind of money couldn’t just be pulled out on a whim. Susan exploded when she heard that. “So now all the money is going to that other woman, and you’re just abandoning us, is that it?”
She had been so caught up with Lillian’s issues lately, she hadn’t had time to deal with anything else. She didn’t even have time to confront Patrick about the second family he had started outside. All she wanted was to try her best to pull the Reed family back together again.
She didn’t want the family to fall apart… But Patrick’s attitude now completely enraged her. I’m telling you, Patrick. You will give me that thirty million. I don’t care how. And from now on, you’ll also be giving us 700,000 dollars every month.”
If begging didn’t work, she’d go the hard route. Any intention she had of keeping things civil with Patrick was gone. She tore off the mask completely. Little did she know, Patrick had long si given up on her.
Faced with her overbearing and unreasonable demands, Patrick said coldly, “You’re sick. Then he hung up.
When Susan tried to call again, she realized she had been blocked. Furious, she screamed, “Ahhhh!”
Why? Why have the Reed family ended up like this? It had been a good family. When had it started falling apart like this, piece by piece? Why had things become so bad?
Chapter 397 Discovery
Susan’s chest heaved with anger, and even her head started to ache.
The housekeeper walked in. “Ma’am, this was delivered for you.”
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Susan rubbed her forehead, still breathing unevenly. She took the envelope the housekeeper handed over and ripped it open, pulling out the contents impatiently.
There were photos… And when she saw who was in them, her pupils constricted. She tightened. her grip on the pictures.
What…
The photo showed Lillian. Sitting across from her was… that woman?
“What the hell is this?” She looked at the housekeeper, who seemed just as confused.
Already struggling to breathe properly, Susan tensed up even more as she stared at the photos. Behind them, there was more–a dossier. And Lillian’s phone records. One number had been specially marked: that woman’s number.
Looking at the frequency of calls between them… Susan turned to the housekeeper in horror. “This…”
What… Her shock was so overwhelming, she couldn’t even hear her own voice anymore.
She looked at the documents again–it was the full record of that woman’s hiring process in the company. And Lillian’s involvement in it. So that woman had entered the company because of
Lillian?
She… No, this can’t be! In an instant, Susan’s mind went blank, her blood running in reverse.
“Ma’am? Ma’am! Are you okay?” the housekeeper’s panicked voice echoed in the living room as tension filled the air.
Stella and Ryan had just finished coffee and were about to get dinner.
