Chapter 77



“It’s all done. He will sign directly into the five-year contract with Ray-Trace Media. If he breaches the contract, he will have to use his entire estate to pay damages for breach of contract.” Magnus wanted to laugh as he talked about this.

Freddie was indeed too naïve, as he was immediately fooled when Joseph pretended to aim at one target while actually shooting at another. In fact, Freddie was still too young and inexperienced and did not know his boss’s temperament.

“Let him breach the contract for what?”. Joseph replied thoughtfully, “Isn’t it better to keep him safe so he can make money for me?”

Hearing this, Magnus froze for a moment. After regaining his presence of mind, he sympathized with Freddie even more.

His boss was simply planning to infuriate the others without killing them!

Try to imagine that you hated a person very much, but you had to become his subordinate and you also had to earn money for him. If you didn’t earn money for that person, you couldn’t receive a salary, but if you earned it for him, most of the money earned would go to that person. How painful was this kind of business?

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At the Downey Family villa.

Hayden deliberately went there at noon on Monday to pick up the keys.

Hayden had to go to the company to work. Although Hayden’s stepmother, Sophia, was not a nice person, she was still polite in appearance so as not to make things difficult for him. Hayden inwardly thought that, if he left immediately after getting the keys, everything would be fine.

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When the Downey Family’s spinster, Camille, saw Hayden, she almost burst into tears, “Miss Downey, why did you come back, where have you been all these years?”

Camille was the maid who had followed Hayden’s mother in her early years. After Hayden’s mother passed away, she had been with Hayden to care for her. She also followed Hayden in coming to the Downey Family home.

Hayden’s eyes also became teary. She took Camille’s hand and said as she choked up, “I’ve been back for a while. I’ve made you worry about not coming back here.”

“It’s all right, I don’t know how much you’ve suffered outside. If your mother knew, she would blame me for not taking good care of you.”

“I’m fine, Camille.”

“Hayden?”

As they spoke, a woman’s voice interrupted.

Sophia was standing on the stairs in a grayish-blue cheongsam. Her well-groomed face made her look like a thirty-year-old and her charm was still intact. When she saw Hayden at that moment, her face was full of astonishment, but her expression quickly returned to normal. As he walked down the stairs, he said amicably.

“Hayden, how come you’re back? Why didn’t you inform me in advance, then I would have asked the kitchen maids to prepare your favorite meal.”

Hayden let go of Camille’s hand and said, “I came back just to get something, I’ll leave after that, you don’t need to do so many things, Sofia.”

She had been calling her by her name Sofia for many years and never changed the way she spoke to him.

In the past, she eavesdropped as Sofia complained to Bentley with an aggrieved face, saying that she had treated Hayden as her daughter, but that Hayden did not appreciate it at all, as she refused to even change the way she called her.

But, Bentley replied with the few words, ‘you’re not her mother either, it’s polite enough for her to call you Sophia’.

In front of Bentley at that time, Sofia did not dare to say anything, but when Bentley left, she smashed a lot of things. She scolded the maids in the room and said that ‘at first she’s not my daughter either, how come she never tells me that I don’t have to treat her right?’

Hayden was able to see through the two-faced woman at a very young age. She didn’t understand why her father hadn’t noticed despite being with her for so many years, was he blind?

After exchanging pleasantries, Sofia didn’t stop Hayden from going upstairs.

Her room was still the same as before and nothing had moved. She tried to conjure up her memories and opened the drawer to the right of the desk.

Hayden frowned. The key wasn’t there. After receiving this gift that year, he’d surely put the keys in here.

Someone had moved it.

“Did you find it?” Seeing Hayden coming down the stairs, Sofia got up from the couch and asked politely.

“No.” Hayden asked bluntly, “Sofia, my house key isn’t in my bedroom drawer. Has someone touched my things?”

Sofia was slightly taken aback, “The key to your house? What do you mean?”

“The villa my father gave me six years ago. The one in the Jinshui Villas area.”

“I don’t know.” Sofia denied with an innocent look, “I never go into your room. Camille is usually the one who cleans your room, and your father comes in from time to time. Why don’t you ask your father?”

“Okay, I see.” Hayden didn’t want to tell her much and made a gesture to leave.

“Hayden, stay for lunch.” Sofia spoke up to stop him from leaving, “I’ve asked the maid to prepare some dishes you like, like the sweet and sour fish that is your favorite.”

Hayden didn’t look back and suddenly felt a little annoyed. “If I stay for dinner, I’m afraid you won’t be able to eat.”

“Hayden, what are you talking about? How am I going to…”

“Why won’t you be able to? “Hayden turned around and looked at her, “There’s no one else here and since my father isn’t home, you don’t have to be pretending. Although my father can’t see through what kind of people you and your daughter are, I am able to see through everything clearly.” After finishing speaking, Hayden left the Downey Family home without turning his head.

Sophia leaned back on the couch and her face darkened. Slowly she looked at Camille standing in the doorway.

“Hey, what did you say to him?”

Camille’s attitude was cold and she lowered her head. “The time Miss Downey went in and out is no more than ten minutes, what could I have said to her?”.

“What I’m asking you is what did you tell her in the past?”

“In the past?” Camille raised her head and her eyes were so sharp that Sophia startled a little and surprisingly shuddered, “Does Mrs. Downey still remember things in the past? At first I thought she had forgotten.”

After uttering these words, Sofia’s hand couldn’t help but shiver.

So what she meant was that Hayden knew everything. No wonder, no wonder he didn’t come back for so many years! He had already gotten Joseph’s support, what was his purpose in coming back now?

Hayden took a cab and left the Downey Family villa. She seemed to feel restless.

That year, her mother went into premature labor giving birth to her and because of a hemorrhage, her mother died a few days after delivery. It wasn’t until the year Hayden entered N City Medical University that Camille told him the truth.

If it hadn’t been for that Sophia deliberately approached and provoked everything, how could her mother have gone into premature labor? Therefore, that two-faced woman had to be held accountable for her mother’s death.

In her two years of college after that, she rarely returned home, even when studying in the local town.

The matter had gone on too long, so there was no point in holding anyone accountable. But, he felt sad for his mother and finally in the dilemma, he simply chose not to confront the group of hypocrites in the Downey Family.

After dispelling the nagging things in his mind, Hayden pulled out his phone, wanting to call his father. But, for an unknown reason, he suddenly thought about Sophia’s behavior, who had just shown a furtive glance. An idea suddenly flashed through his mind.

“Sir, I don’t want to go to the Imperial Villa anymore. I want to go to Jinshui Villa.”

Obviously, his father had ordered him not to move his things from the study. Two days ago, he had just told his father that he was going to look for the keys, so he would not go to his room to deliberately take them away. Therefore, if the keys were lost, there was only one possibility.

The keys had been taken by someone who was always thinking about taking other people’s things.

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