Carl inwardly scoffed at Raina’s pitiful act. He wasn’t going to waste any more time on them. He refused to take the check, however, because he knew they would need the money to carry out the plan. “I don’t think saying anything else is necessary. Goodbye.” Carl stood to leave.
Arabella began to throw and smash things after Carl had left. “That son of a bitch! He thinks he can get rid of us with only fifty million dollars? Get real!”
Raina looked downtrodden and pale. “Ashlyn is going to remarry Gordon.”
Arabella tamped down her anger after she heard Raina’s words. “What do you think we should do, Raina?” They had requested money from the Jones family, and they had stopped making trouble for them. But it didn’t mean they would give up. After all, they would get way more than fifty million if Raina married into the Jones family.
Raina thought for a moment, unsure of what to do about the Jones family. She looked briefly at the check sitting on the table. She was unwilling to be sent away like trash. Before long, another opportunity would come their way.
Arabella went to Crowbar Technologies to visit Gordon. The last time she visited, she informed Gordon about Raina’s depressive state. He refused to come see Raina, but he gave Arabella some money so she could find a knowledgeable psychologist for Raina.
Arabella had more to tell Gordon this time. She figured Gordon would not refuse to see Raina when he heard Raina committed suicide for him.
She stopped in the bathroom before she went to see Gordon. This was where Arabella heard some gossip about Ashlyn.
“Did you know Gordon’s ex-wife, Ashlyn? She’s pregnant now! The baby isn’t Gordon’s! She’s such a bitch! She got back together with him not long ago, but it seems she’s dating two men at the same time.”
“You’ve got to be kidding! If the tabloids hear about this, it will be so interesting!”
“Ashlyn is pregnant for sure. Who knows if the baby is Devin’s? She won’t tell the truth about it!”
“Wait! That’s so wrong! Devin spent the night at Ashlyn’s apartment not long ago. The baby must be his. I think Ashlyn loves Gordon and she divorced him only to save herself from embarrassment. If the baby was Gordon’s, Ashlyn would tell everyone about it. The Jones family would demand a marriage between them!”
“You are so right! It’s just so unbelievable how rich people are! Ashlyn can’t even tell whose baby she’s carrying!”
The two women walked away from the bathroom. After they had gone, Arabella walked out of the cubicle.
Arabella decided not to see Gordon after hearing the gossip from the two women.
What a delicious earful she had received about Ashlyn being pregnant!
This might be just the chance her and Raina needed, she thought.
Arabella left Crowbar Technologies in a hurry.
Arabella couldn’t wait to tell Raina what she heard so they could find a way to keep Ashlyn from remarrying into the Jones family. She walked out of the Crowbar Technologies building on cloud nine, never noticing how the two women she had been listening to were staring at her.
Unknown to Arabella, it had all been a trap set by Nathaniel.
In the villa of the Jones family
Carl hung up the phone and looked at Nathaniel, who was feeding fish not too far away. He walked over to the man. “Mr. Jones?”
“Yes?” Nathaniel said without looking away from the aquarium.
“Arabella heard the gossip we laid out for her. It’s possible she and Raina will do something very soon.”
Nathaniel laughed out loud. “Great! We only have to wait for them to make their move now!”
He believed Ashlyn would have to marry Gordon again after the rumor was spread.
Carl was worried and looked at Nathaniel. “If Gordon finds out what we did…”
“Then I guess you’d better not let him know,” Nathaniel said, smirking and squinting at the fish.
“Yes sir.”
Carl could only look at Nathaniel.
Nathaniel was still as evil as before.
Carl thought Ashlyn was to blame. She had fallen in love with the wrong man.
She wanted to shake off the Jones family. The latter would not let that happen.
Arabella and Raina had no idea they had been set up. Raina was also happy at the news that Ashlyn was pregnant.
Ashlyn was pregnant and the baby wasn’t Gordon’s.
It didn’t matter to Raina or Arabella who the father of Ashlyn’s baby was, as long as it didn’t belong to Gordon.
Carl said Gordon had planned on remarrying Ashlyn.
Didn’t the Jones family care about their reputation?
Raina knew the Jones family wouldn’t accept Ashlyn if she were carrying another man’s baby.
“Arabella, please tell the media that Ashlyn is pregnant. The quicker it gets around, the better!”
Arabella gave her a quizzical look. “Should we only tell them Ashlyn’s pregnant? Shouldn’t we say the baby might be Devin’s?”
Raina smiled deviously. “We only need to say Ashlyn’s pregnant. There’s no need to go into specifics. The public will run with the gossip if they know Ashlyn was seeing two men at the same time and now she’s pregnant. Not only will Ashlyn be unable to marry into the Jones family, but she won’t be able to marry into the Stanley family either. We caught a break! As long as we dent Ashlyn’s reputation this time, she will never be able to marry into the Jones family again!”
Arabella was glad she had a smart sister. Every time she did what Raina told her to do, things turned out really well.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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