Chapter 242 – After the One-Night Stand with a Heartless Billionaire

Ryan nodded as he lay on the couch. After a while, Anna heard him snoring.

When Anna came out of the kitchen with the pasta, Ryan had already fallen asleep. She hesitated for a moment and still couldn’t bear to wake him up.

She observed that Ryan’s face was illuminated by the living room’s warm, yellow light, making him still look like a teenager. Half of his eyes were hidden by the unkempt bangs in front of his forehead, and it appeared that he hadn’t had his hair cut in a while.

At that moment, Anna felt guilty. He’d been recuperating after she’d hit him with her car. Later, he finally regained some of his memory. However, he assisted her in looking into Matthew’s accident immediately after that, regardless of whether he had fully recovered or not.

In any case, Ryan was still a fresh adult despite his mature behavior. Anna wondered why she agreed to let him travel so far away in the first place.

She believed she would never be able to repay him for his kindness. Thinking of that, she sighed.

At that moment, Ryan was suddenly awakened. He sat up from the couch, rubbing his drowsy eyes and asked, “Is dinner ready, Anna?”

“Yeah.” Anna immediately placed the plate in front of him.

It was a plate of delicious spaghetti with tomato bolognese and a few slices of bacon.

Ryan smiled happily and said with excitement, “Ah! I’ve always wanted to eat the food you make, Anna.”

With that, he immediately picked up his plate and ate the spaghetti. Soon, he had finished the whole plate of pasta.

“Are you still hungry? I’ll let me make you some more.” Anna said.

Ryan wiped his mouth as he said, “Oh, thank you, but I’m good. I’m full, so let’s get down to business.”

He placed his fork on the edge of his plate and made a crisp sound, and that sound seemed to herald the beginning of a new chapter in the story.

“There were two nannies who looked after Matthew three years ago. Matthew’s meals

“You actually found them!” Anna couldn’t help exclaiming.

Ryan nodded and said, “Yes, they now run a restaurant together in Leeds, called Sister’s Restaurant. And they’re doing quite well.”

Mary and Kim were cousins, and both of them came from a remote, poor village. So, after they left that village, they had no intention of returning to their hometown.

They had only been employed by the Wrights for two years, according to their profile, which Ryan showed Anna. The Wrights had been training them during one of those years. So, they had been working there officially for a very short time.

Since they made it through many tests, they were well-paid. So, they usually would not do harm to their host simply for a bit of profit.

“I checked their bank accounts, but I found nothing unusual about it. They earned a good salary as nannies at the Wrights’ house, and most of the money they received was the severance pay the Wrights gave them three years ago.”

“That means that they weren’t bribed by anyone, right?”

“No,” Ryan said and shook his head. . Then he showed Anna an image of a bony guy standing on a road as he turned the material over a page.

“This man is Kim’s ex-husband. He went to Birmingham to look for Kim and extorted a large sum of money from her. Later, he developed a h****n addiction and ran up debt with loan sharks. But three years ago, the people asking him for money stopped, and he went into rehab.”

Anna scowled and looked in wonder at the man in the picture. At that point, she had already guessed precisely what had happened.

“Well, I found this man in a nearby county, and he had just gotten out of that rehab six months ago and had quit drugs. He admitted that the person behind all of this talked to him years ago. That person promised to help him pay back the loan sharks in addition to a substantial amount of money. And all he needed to do was to persuade Kim to put drugs into Matthew’s formula.”

“So, Kim did this whole thing, right?”

Ryan shook his head again and said, “No, I can’t say that for sure. Anyway, I’m surprised at how smart this guy is. He claimed that Kim filed for divorce with him after refusing to comply with his request in the first place. The two argued over it and even went to the Birmingham police station. I’ve checked this record, and he was telling the truth.”

Anna kept asking, “Hey, you just mentioned that two women set up that restaurant in Leeds. So, did Mary do the whole thing?”

Ryan nodded and said, “Yes, it did have something to do with her.”

It was an easy situation. Kim’s ex-husband refused to divorce her after they got into a huge fight. The debt collectors couldn’t get the money from him, so they went to her. As Kim’s cousin, Mary cared for her and couldn’t stand it. So, she poisoned Matthew behind their back.”

“At first, Kim was unaware of it. She questioned Mary about it after learning that something bad had happened to Matthew. But, it had already happened by that time, and the mastermind of the incident protected them. So, they left Birmingham and went to Leeds.”

Nobody took a penny from the beginning to the end, which was why the Wrights didn’t find anything suspicious about them. Besides, no one would believe that someone didn’t do this for the money.

“Oh? How do you know about this?” Anna asked, puzzled.

Back then, they didn’t leave any traces of that crime. Therefore, they shouldn’t disclose it even if Ryan found them.

Ryan said with a complicated expression, “Actually, Mary has cancer and is probably going to die soon. So, she confessed everything to me.”

Maybe she got sick because of karma. After poisoning Matthew, Mary felt uneasy. Although nobody else knew that she did it, she was constantly concerned that the Wrights would find out. She thus worried for all these years. She was subsequently diagnosed with stomach cancer six months ago, which was deadly.

Anna also felt conflicted upon hearing this. She believed that this woman deserved it. However, Mary did it to save her cousin rather than gain money.

Anna then said,”Oh… So, who exactly is the mastermind of this matter? Have you also found it out?”

Ryan took a slow, deep breath and said, “Actually, Mary said that it was the young master from the Wright family who made her do it.”

Anna’s fists clenched as her heart skipped a beat. She said, “But you know, there were several young masters in the Wright family.”

“Mary said she was pretty sure that man was Matthew’s father. She only met him during the holidays, but she frequently saw him on the news. So, she’s certain that it is him.”

Anna felt the blood in her clenched fist turning cold. Then that coldness flowed back through her frozen limbs.

She thought to herself, Did Wayne do this? Why?! Why would he make use of his two–year–old son?

Looking at Anna’s pale face, Ryan felt sorry for her.

He comforted her by saying, “Well, Anna, you don’t have to think about the worst-case scenario. Maybe, Wayne didn’t anticipate that this would have such a huge impact on Matthew. I asked Mary about the medication she was giving Matthew at the time, and she said it was simply some nutritional powder. She only let him have a small amount of that because she worried he wouldn’t digest it. Well, she didn’t see why this would prevent

Matthew from speaking. Additionally, the physician noted that Matthew’s vocal cords were healthy. So, maybe, the reason why Matthew didn’t want to talk was that he was startled.”

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