Imprisoned While Pregnant, She's Back for Payback novel Chapter 48

Chapter 48 Are You Really Going to Break Up Our Family?

Finn flipped through the files, looking bored, his icy eyes barely lifting from the page.

“Mr. Lock, Charles is one of our top lawyers and he is about on par with Nadine …”

Zane tried to sound casual, but he was carefully watching Finn’s face as he passed along the shareholders‘ worries.

Finn let out a cold, mocking laugh and shot him a sharp look. “What? So if Charles leaves, the Lock Group’s finished?”

Zane flinched, feeling goosebumps crawl up his neck. He shook his head fast.

Sure, losing Charles wouldn’t destroy the company, but the way Finn was going about this just to get Mrs. Lock back… Was this really worth it?

He stared at the floor and pressed his lips tightly together, swallowing the rest of his thoughts.

He thought about the plan Finn had set up. The more he thought about it, the colder he felt.

Charles had given Mrs. Lock a place to stay–no wonder Finn was furious.

Charles could have been the next big name in law, but now he was about to get crushed before he even peaked.

Finn was pulling out every trick he had to bring Tess back.

“Mr. Lock, Mr. Jackman is here.”

Just then, a nervous assistant peeked in.

Finn leaned back on his arm, eyes glinting like cold steel,

A smile tugged at his lips, but there was no warmth in it. “Let him in.”

Soon, the two men sat facing each other across the coffee table.

Finn narrowed his eyes, giving Charles a look sharper than usual. He was really sizing him

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After a long while, Finn finally spoke, his voice low and chilly. “You managed to find thirty million already?”

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Charles met Finn’s calm stare head–on, but the suffocating pressure in the air made his palms

sweat.

“Are you pushing me this hard just so you can force Ms. Ember to come crawling back to you?”

He did not dance around it–his tone was clear and sharp.

The whole room seemed to freeze.

A chill spread from Finn like ice, but Charles did not flinch.

Zane, though, was standing off to the side wishing he could disappear.

All Zane could think was, God, I just want to go home to my mom.

Seriously, had Charles completely lost it?

He had expected Charles to plead or negotiate, not go toe–to–toe with Finn like this!

Cold sweat ran down Zane’s back. He kept his eyes on the floor, terrified he would get caught in the crossfire.

Finn’s gaze turned lethal, his voice like a blade scraping ice. “Charles, Tess is my wife. What gives you the right to hide her from me?”

The warning was clear as day.

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He clenched his fists under the table but kept his tone calm. “Ms. Ember is someone worth respecting.”

Slam!

The table rattled under Finn’s sudden slap.

“Respecting? Tess? You really have the guts, Charles. Falling for my wife, huh?”

Finn’s eyes burned dark and fierce, his hand flat on the table like he might lunge forward any second and rip Charles apart.

Charles looked down and said nothing, which only made Finn angrier.

Suddenly, something clicked in Finn’s mind.

Tess did not have any close friends or family in Aetheris. The only person she kept in touch with was Charles, an old colleague from the legal world. So how did she suddenly have a kid after getting out of prison?

Finn’s thoughts stalled. He stared at Charles, not even noticing his own fingers trembling.

“Whose kid is it?”

He had wanted to ask that for a long time.

Charles did not answer directly. Instead, his eyes flickered, and a small, proud smile appeared on his lips, like a father thinking of his child. “Since you’ve already looked into it, Mr. Lock, you should know Tess wouldn’t just show up at my place with a kid for no reason.”

“You think I buy that?”

“Believe it or not, Mr. Lock, it doesn’t matter. Before Ms. Ember went to prison, I was with her at a party. She got drunk, and I couldn’t hold back how I felt about her …

“Shut up!” Finn’s eyes were blazing with rage. “Do you even hear yourself?”

“It was my mistake, not Ms. Ember’s. She doesn’t know anything about it. But what’s done is done. Are you really going to break up our family now, Mr. Lock?”

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