Chapter 316

Damn it! The monitor had been discovered!

What should she do?

Cold sweat beaded on Erica’s forehead. She racked her brain for a solution, but unfortunately for her

she was not clever enough.

Corbin reached out to take off the monitor.

Erica did the only thing she could think of. She slapped him and shouted, “You creep!”

Corbin was stunned.

Erica seized she opportunity to tear the monitor from under her collar and place it in her mouth.

Then she swallowed it.

Corbin put his hand over his cheek. He couldn’t believe what Erica had done. For a moment, he

couldn’t even speak.

“Maurice, listen closely. Return Ivy to me or you will never find out who is behind all this,” Erica

shouted.

She was confident now that she thought she had something Maurice would be willing to negotiate for.

Maurice glared at her and said coldly, “I don’t need you to tell me anything. I only need to arrange for

an operation. Once the device is removed from your stomach, the data can be restored. That data is

more reliable than anything you could tell me.”

Erica felt a cold fear start to spread through her body.

Her face turned pale as she imagined lying on the cold operating table as a scalpel sliced her stomach

open.

“You… you can’t do that. That’s illegal. I will call the police. I swear I will.”

Erica deserved this. Eliana felt glad when she saw the terror on Erica’s face.

Although the situation was Erica’s fault, Eliana could not bear to let Ivy get hurt. She was just a little

girl.

Ivy was innocent.

On top of that, Ivy was friends with her twins.

“Maurice… Let Ivy go. Don’t threaten a mother with the safety of her child,” Eliana said.

Eliana understood that, for a mother, seeing her child in danger was the worst thing in the world.

“Eliana, is this how you think of me? Do you really think I would stoop so low as to kidnap a child?”

Maurice pressed his thin lips together. A dark cloud seemed to radiate off of him.

What was he saying?

He hadn’t kidnapped Ivy?

Eliana realized that the only reason she had to believe Maurice kidnapped Asher and Ivy was that Erica

told her so.

But Maurice had never threatened Erica with Ivy.

Had she misjudged Maurice?

Guilt filled Eliana. “Maurice, I didn’t mean that,” she said quickly.

“I don’t care what you meant. You and I haven’t settled our own business yet. It’s not wise for you to

meddle in other people’s business now,” Maurice snapped.

Eliana didn’t dare to say anything else.

“Maurice! Return my daughter to me. Mmm…”

In the middle of Erica’s tirade, Maurice cast a glance at his subordinates. They covered her mouth with

a white cloth and led her away.

Corbin directed the others to leave as well. In an instant, Eliana and Maurice were alone in the hall.

The air was thick with tension.

Eliana swallowed and felt her nervousness increase.

“Tell me, Eliana, what else are you still hiding from me?”

Maurice approached Eliana slowly. He was determined that this time he would discover all of her

secrets.

Why was he asking that?

Was it possible that… he still didn’t know about the two children?

That was a relief.

Eliana sighed and stammered, “I… I’m not hiding anything from you. You’re the one… who has

secrets.”

“You still want to hide the truth from me, even now?”

Maurice forced Eliana to take a step back.

Eliana didn’t dare to look into Maurice’s eyes. She felt that if she did, he would see through her and her

last secret would be revealed.

The two were in a stalemate, which was broken by an unexpected occurrence.

When Eliana exposed her located in the live streaming, a crowd of reporters rushed towards the scene.