Can’t the Sutton family afford a few tens of millions for loan sharking?”
Seeing that Josephine didn’t know how to respond, Courtney spoke up:
“You have the ability to help him, but you don’t. What’s with the passive–aggressive sarcasm?”
Aveline didn’t want to argue with Courtney about this and asked:
“Does Devin know that Jacob is missing?”
Courtney replied, “He knows.”
Aveline asked again, “Are you sure Jacob is missing, hiding to avoid his debts?”
Courtney and Josephine became nervous again. The mother and daughter exchanged a look, and Courtney said:
“If it’s not for that, what else could it be for?“!
Aveline snorted coldly, said nothing more, and hung up the phone.
Josephine quickly asked Courtney, “Why is Aveline suddenly so concerned about Dad?”
Courtney felt uncomfortable hearing her call Jacob “Dad.”
“He’s not your father. Stop calling him that.”
“Don’t be nervous. Aveline probably hasn’t found anything. If she had,
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she would have definitely gone to the police.”
Just then, Paul opened the door and came in, his face pale. After closing the door, he said:
“It’s over. I killed Raymond.”
Courtney and Josephine were stunned. Courtney shouted, “What nonsense are you talking about?”
Paul staggered to the bedside, “Raymond found out that Jacob is Xavier’s father–in–law. He wanted to go to Xavier and tell on us to get more money.”
“I lost control and killed him.”
Josephine’s legs gave out, and she collapsed to the floor.
Why could her biological father kill someone so easily?
Killing one after another.
Courtney asked, “How did Raymond know that Jacob is Xavier’s father- in–law?”
Paul replied, “I accidentally let it slip.”
Courtney was furious. “Idiot! Idiot! Why are you all such idiots?”
Paul sat on the edge of the bed, a ruthless look on his face. “It’s better that he’s dead. This way, he can’t blackmail us anymore.”
Courtney gritted her teeth, took a few deep breaths, and asked him, “The body… what did you do with it?”
Paul told her, “I stabbed him in the car, so I drove out to the
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countryside and buried him.”
“But there’s blood in the car. We need to get Hilda to clean it.”
Josephine sat on the floor, looking up at her mother and her biological father in terror, not understanding how they could talk about this so calmly.
At the door of the hospital room, Hilda, who had just come from the hotel, overheard their conversation. When she heard they wanted her to clean the car, she completely broke down.
She had just finished cleaning the hotel room, and now Paul had killed someone else. She had to go wash those disgusting bloodstains again.
Hilda turned and walked away. She wasn’t doing it anymore.
After all these years with Courtney, she had saved up a good amount of money. She could go back to her hometown and retire.
She went back to the hotel to get her luggage, but she hadn’t been gone long before the police arrived.
When the police arrived at the hospital, Josephine had just gone to the restroom. When she came back and saw officers at the door of the hospital room, she was so scared she just turned and ran.
As she ran out of the building, Paul drove up beside her. “Josie, get in the car, quick.”
Josephine was stunned. “Weren’t you in the room?”
“Get in the car, now.”
Josephine didn’t have her car keys, so she got into Paul’s car, then yelled at him, “You’re the one who killed him! You can’t leave my mom
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When is the novel ending? It’s so unnecessarily long… not a single intimacy or connection just fighting and bickering from the beginning to end...