Chapter 246



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“You found them both?”.

Benjamin nodded for a moment, “They’re in Guangzhou. They opened a restaurant called Sabresa Fast Food Restaurant, and they’ve been doing very well.”

Teresa and Sabrina came from remote mountain areas. They were cousins and had no intention of returning since they left that remote mountain village.

According to information provided by Benjamin, they had only worked for the Beckham Family for two years and received Beckham Family training for one of those two years, not to mention the evaluation period before they were hired.

Nannies who had gone through several tests before being hired would naturally have a high salary. By rights, they should not do anything that would harm their master’s family for petty benefits.

“I have also checked their bank accounts, there is nothing unusual. Besides the nanny salary during those years, the highest amount was the severance pay given to them by the Beckham Family three years ago.”

“So, they weren’t bribed?”.

“No.”

Benjamin shook his head and handed her a page from the file. It was a street photo of a bone-thin man in focus for the camera.

“This is Sabrina’s ex-husband, they were married in her hometown. He chased Sabrina to N City in the early years and asked her for a lot of money. After that, he became addicted to drugs and had debts with some criminals. But three years ago, all of a sudden, all the debt collectors quit and this guy went into rehab.”

Hayden frowned and looked puzzled at the man in the photo.

He could vaguely guess what kind of relationship there was between the man and Sabrina in terms of money.

“I met this man in Shaoyang County. He had just gotten out of rehab six months ago, had overcome his drug addiction, and admitted that the person who was trying to harm Noah found him and promised to help him pay off his debts. The person also promised him that he would give him a huge amount of money if he asked Sabrina to put some drugs inside the powdered milk of his master’s son.”

Benjamin said everything bluntly. His words were not spoken as mere conjecture, but were all well-grounded facts.

“So, did Sabrina do it?”.

“I’m not too sure either.” Benjamin shook his head again, “That’s why I think this person is smart. Sabrina’s ex-husband told me that at first Sabrina didn’t agree to his request and she said she wanted to divorce him. The two of them got into a fight and went to the police station in the district of N City. This was recorded and I have verified it, it is true.”

Hayden vaguely realized something: “You just mentioned that the two women who opened the store in Guangzhou are cousins. There’s another woman named Teresa, is this incident related to her?”

Benjamin nodded, “Yes, it is related to her.”

The matter was very simple. After Sabrina argued with her ex-husband, he harassed her and refused to divorce her. The debt collector who failed to collect her ex-husband’s debts naturally found her, and Teresa, as a cousin, couldn’t take it anymore. She put the drug inside Noah’s powdered milk powder on the sly, without telling Sabrina or her ex-husband.

“At first, Sabrina didn’t know. Only later, when something happened to Noah, did she learn the truth after asking Teresa several times. But things had already happened and there was someone there to cover it up, so they were fired directly by the Beckham Family. They left N-Town and went to Guangzhou.”

Since there was no money involved in this matter, even the Beckham Family couldn’t find out anything at the time. Who would believe that they would do something like this without asking for money when it could hurt them to be caught doing it?

“So, how did you find out the truth?”. Hayden was baffled.

There was no evidence to prove that Teresa was the one who had done that. Even if Benjamin had found them both, they would have had to keep denying that they did it.

Benjamin seemed to be in a complicated mood: “Teresa has cancer and doesn’t have long to live. She confessed everything to me.”

No one knew if there really was such a thing as karma. After Teresa drugged in Noah’s powdered milk, she was always tense and always worried that the Beckham Family would find them. So, over the years, she became sick with worry and half a year ago she was found to have stomach cancer that was already in the terminal stage.

Hayden also seemed to have mixed feelings. From Noah’s mother’s perspective, she should have said that Teresa got what she deserved. But this woman didn’t do it for money, she just did it to get her cousin out of some trouble, so she was considered a righteous person.

“So who was the person who asked her to do that? You should have found that out too, right?”.

Speaking of this, Benjamin slowly exhaled a foul breath.

“Teresa said that the one who asked her to do such a thing was the Beckham Family’s Young Master.”

Hayden’s heart stopped beating for a moment and he clenched his fingers.

“There are several young masters in the Beckham Family.”

“She was sure it was Noah’s father. Although she never saw much of him, he went to the Beckham Mansion every New Year’s and she always saw him on the news, so she wouldn’t mistake him for anyone else.”

Hayden’s clenched fingers turned cold. He could feel the cold spreading through his body. He felt like he couldn’t even think straight at that moment.

It really was Joseph who had done that.

How could he take advantage of a two-year-old?

Looking at Hayden’s pale face, Benjamin became a little upset.

“Hayden, I think you don’t have to think badly of him, maybe Joseph didn’t expect this incident to make such an impact on Noah. I asked Teresa what kind of substance she put inside the powdered milk and she said it was a medicine to improve Noah’s health, but she was afraid that the boy couldn’t take the tonic, so the dosage was very small. Later, Noah only had a fever. As for the damage to the vocal cords, it is very strange, since the doctor had said that Noah had intact vocal cords. He just didn’t want to talk to others, maybe someone was afraid of him.”

Benjamin’s words did little to comfort Hayden. She still felt upset.

How cold Joseph had to be to take advantage of a two-year-old who couldn’t even speak properly, all to achieve his goals. This was just too horrible.

“No need to comfort me, I know what’s going on.”

She had been prepared for this when Benjamin warned her last time.

It was late at night and the lights in the guest room had long since been turned off. While Benjamin, who had been in a hurry all day, went straight to sleep in the guest room after taking a shower. Meanwhile, Hayden was in Stella’s room. He was unable to fall asleep after a long time.

Looking at his daughter’s cute face when she slept, he felt guilty.

If he had been stronger then, would he have let Noah be born into such a treacherous and wealthy family as the Beckhams and get into such trouble?

In the darkness, a text message alert popped up on Hayden’s phone. It was from Edison.

[Alayna’s recovery is going well. We’re all good here. Are you?]

Looking at the text message, Hayden took a deep breath. Sitting cross-legged on the carpet, she tapped the phone screen and typed back, [I’m fine here. I’ve been thinking about the Noah thing. Can you get in touch with the lawyer you told me about earlier? I need to consult with him about Noah’s custody].

At first, she didn’t think about fighting for custody of Noah with Joseph, thinking that, after all, Joseph had raised him. She had no right to take custody away from Joseph.

But now, it seemed that, if Joseph could do those things in the past, then he could do it a second time. Not to mention that it was really dangerous for Noah to stay with him.

Edison quickly got back to him. He sent him the lawyer’s contact information.

[Ask him first if you have anything to consult with him. I’m going to N City next month, make sure you’re in a good mood to meet me and talk. I will support you when you need me].

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