Rolling my eyes at him, I stopped arguing because I was too tired. Hence, I commanded, “Sleep.”
In my daze, I felt him embracing me. When I hear his breathing getting heavier and heavier, I sighed. “Anthony, sleep in the guest room.”
He hoarsely muttered, “Once?”
I pursed my lips, but my exhaustion was pulling me into the land of dreams. “Anthony, I’m very sleepy right now.”
And I truly was. That was why I had no idea how I fell asleep.
The next morning, I woke to see him putting on his suit. He looked noble and elegant, worlds away from the animal he acted like last night.
At the sight of him, I mumbled under my breath, “Wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
However, the man had a keen sense of hearing, so he heard my words despite how quiet I said them. Narrowing his eyes, he walked over with a smile on his lips.
I ignored him as I shut my eyes, about to sleep for a while longer.
Unfortunately for me, he had never been nice to me. He dug me out from under the blanket before he started rubbing against my pajamas.
I only managed to get his hands off after several blows. When I finally succeeded, I shot him a grim look. “Anthony, don’t you know how annoying you are? You won’t let me sleep at night, but you won’t let me sleep in the morning either. If you want to kill me, do it quick. Stop dragging it out.”
A laugh escaped him, and he rubbed his face in my ear. “Sienna, are you having your period?”
Instantly, wrath rose in me like a tide. I pulled the closest pillow to me and hurled it toward him. “Get lost!”
It seemed like he was used to it, as he pecked a kiss on my forehead before leaving.
…
At the start, I had no plans to leave the house today. However, Stacey called and asked to meet me.
After Felix’s event, she had come to K City. She, a highly educated and witty woman, soon joined the Moore family’s company after a few interviews.
We ended up agreeing to meet at a tearoom. It seemed like the residents of K City rarely drank tea, so it was tough for us to find one.
However, as long as we wanted to, a tearoom could still be found.
The tearoom she found was located in a more secluded district. The two of us then ordered a pot of floral tea after we sat down by the window.
“They’ve sentenced Felix to death, and I’m finally free. Thank you,” she said right after she sat down.
With a faint smile, I replied, “No need for thanks. I have my own plans myself.”
She smiled back, not minding her reply. “Mr. Featherstone’s company is in big trouble, right?”
Her words made me tensed up for a moment. I knew Anthony would not publicize the matter, and the only ones who knew were the few shareholders that had a prominent position in the company.
Finally, I inquired, “The Moore family did this?”
She shook her head. “No. It’s Cameron’s side. I’ve heard of Jared and her making a move earlier, so I’m sure this was planned. Everything went wrong for the two hundred hospitals managed by the Featherstone Corporation in the country and overseas. That’s why I’m thinking that they might be trying to destroy Featherstone Corporation.”
At that, I tensed up again. Anthony had been busy recently, but he was the kind of person who shared little with me, so I barely knew anything about the incident.
From Stacey’s words, I realized the situation was grave.
“Any evidence?” Isn’t Cameron under investigation? How did she find the time to set Featherstone Corporation up?
Is she trying to divert our attention?
Stacey shook her head. “I just realized it recently. Before Mr. Featherstone planned to come to K City to expand his business, I found out from Felix that Cameron and Jared have been meeting frequently.
Back then, I didn’t know what they were trying to do. Now that I think about it, they must have been planning for the hospitals’ incident.
The few hundred hospitals have been making illegal extra fees. In fact, one of the old patients in K City’s hospital had passed away for months, but the hospital is still finding reasons to charge the patient’s family. There are a handful of cases like these in the country, and every hospital will come across a case like this. The hidden charges are always either checkups or medication. However, this case is much more serious than the others.”
After a pause, she explained, “The hospital charged the family a million after the old patient passed away, and that’s why the patient’s children sued them.”
Drawing my brows together, I uttered, “They’re still charging the family medical fees after he passed away for months? What are they treating? His corpse?”
She shook her head. “I don’t know. These are obviously questionable charges, but there are many similar cases. All the hospitals under Featherstone Corporation have these cases. That’s why it’ll be difficult to handle them all now. There’s a chance that Mr. Featherstone might have to go to jail for this.”
No way! Anthony can’t possibly have done this!
“Jared has always been the one managing the medical side of the business, and Anthony has never asked anything about his management because he trusts him. Now that they’re expanding the business overseas, all the business related to medical and research is Jared’s responsibility. How can things turn out this way?”
Does Anthony and Jared have a secret past?
Stacey sighed. “Clearly someone has planned for this for a long time. All that’s left now is to find out how Mr. Featherstone is going to deal with it.”
I pressed my lips together. “The children of the old patient have been paying the fees after he passed away? They said nothing even though they’re paying a million for no good reason?”
No one would continue to pay the fees after their parents are gone, right?
She nodded. “They’ve even kept records of every receipt and medication, so everyone is talking about how evil Featherstone Corporation is.”
It was almost impossible for Anthony to turn the tables with all evidence pointing toward him while everyone was criticizing him.
Cameron really is ruthless. She’s all quiet until she deals a deadly blow that no one can recover from.
After a brief while of contemplation, I said, “There are no results for Mr. Clinton’s case in the investigation. Do you have any plans?”
Although Cameron and Clinton frequently contacted, neither of their accounts had any transfer of funds from each other, and no one could find a trace of evidence regarding cash transactions. Moreover, they had found nothing in Clinton’s house.
Mulling over my words, she replied, “I’m not too sure about that. What about this? I’ll go back and ask around for more details to see if I get anything useful.”
I nodded; that was all we could do now.
…
Stacey and I did not converse for long as someone was bound to notice us if we stayed around too long.
I had originally planned to head straight back to the villa, but I suddenly recalled the White’s matter. After a pause, I went to the White residence to visit Marcus instead.
However, it was not long before I was stuck outside a building in the city center.
A handful of people had gotten down from their cars and headed toward the building, trying to find out what was going on. Even just by looking out of the car, I knew that something major must have happened.
I was not a busybody, but I was trapped between two empty cars. In the end, I could not help but ask a middle-aged woman nearby what was going on.
Middle-aged women were either on social media or trying to gossip, so the moment she heard my question, she quickly responded, “Oh, young lady, if you’re in a rush, it’s best that you leave this place. Someone’s trying to jump from the building ahead, and I heard it’s the ex-wife of the White Corporation’s chairman who just died. What a tough life for the rich too. Her ex-husband just died, and now she’s being forced to jump because of the mistress. I’d say that J City’s Featherstones’ woman is really something. I mean, look. She already has her inheritance, but she’s still forcing the man’s first wife to kill herself. Karma will come to her for this eventually.”
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