“Yeah.”
Loredana was locked in her contemplation. She knew that Charles really cared for Lacey and cherished the mutual childhood affection in their past through her observation.
He must be having much inner struggle for this time when he handed Lacey to them.
After a while, the car was stopped at the GPS location shown on Boyce’s phone that Tom sent to him.
It was an abandoned factory building. There was a messy miscellaneous collection of goods and some abandoned products and nothing else in it.
Lacey was tied and thrown on the floor with her mouth wrapped with tape.
Tom was waiting for them at the door. When he saw that they were coming, he said, “Our boss was upstairs, he will just watch it and not take part in it. She is handed to you all and we will not meddle in it.”
The hidden meaning in it was he would not comment about it even if Cormac wanted to do anything on her.
Cormac was satisfied with his attitude. He was neither a bad guy nor a kind man. She had done all those bad things to his beloved people so it was impossible to stop him now from holding her accountable for it. She had scared Samuel last time and she almost caused the death of Loredana for this time. Every case of it had exceeded his limit.
Tom did a welcome gesture, “She is inside.”
Boyce walked at the front and he was finding the path. Cormac was holding Loredana’s hand and walking at the back. The floor was stained and there was a collection of sundries scattered all over the floor. Cormac reminded her to be careful and walk slower.
Loredana was thinking of other things in her heart and she didn’t hear his voice.
Cormac applied some force on his hand that placed around her waist to let her feel his strength, “What are you thinking about?”
“Nothing.” Loredana said.
She was actually thinking that if Lacey can admit her mistake, she will ask Cormac not to hold her accountable for Charles’s sake.
Just as they stepped in the factory, they could obviously feel the decrease of temperature. The shabby window was opened and the sunshine was covered by the roof which made the place become shadowy.
Lacey was thrown on the floor with her hands and legs being tied. She glared at Loredana fiercely when she saw her.
She just wished that she could stare at Loredana until a hole formed on her face.
Cormac squinted his eyes slightly. He was not getting angry but his strong aura could just let people feel the pressure from him, “If you continue to stare at her like that, I will scoop out your eyeballs.”
Lacey shivered for a while and then she dared not to look at Loredana. She lowered her head and struggled on the floor as she wished to escape from the place.
However, she was not able to move a step even she had used up all her strength.
Loredana took a glance at Cormac. He was having such temper and she just hoped that Lacey could learn well and suffer less.
They were same as women and she had compassion for her.
Even though Lacey was the one who started to hurt her, she was willing to give her a chance to turn over a new leaf.
Tom had prepared two clean chairs. Cormac sat down with Loredana in his arm.
Boyce squatted down in front of Lacey and tore off the tape on her mouth, “You can say now, are you the one who let someone send the doll? Why did you push Loredana?”
Lacey lowered her head without saying a word.
She looked so stubborn.
Boyce licked his dry lips and laughed out loud, “Follow my order or face the consequences?”
“Just kill me if you want to, why are you asking so much questions?” She still lowered her head, “The rule of this world goes to the stronger prey upon the weaker without saying. I am the weak and so I need to let you all to trample on me. It is not because that I have done something wrong but it is because that you all are wealthy and powerful.”
“Ha.” Boyce laughed in anger when he heard that. Did she mean that they were bullying her with their power?
“Hello, it’s you who are the one to provoke us first, okay?”
“It’s she who seduced Charles first!” Finally, Lacey raised her head up and she dared not to glare at Loredana but she glared at Boyce.
Boyce laughed angrily again.
Loredana went to seduce Charles?
Did she think that Loredana was blind? She put Cormac aside and went to seduce Charles?
Was there a hole in Lacey’s brain?
Boyce knew that he couldn’t get any useful information in that way of questioning. Thus, he changed his method. “You are an orphan who was adopted by the Ward family as the wife of the family couldn’t give birth a child. However, she was pregnant soon after adopting you. Later, she gave birth to a baby boy who was your nominal brother.
Boyce took the photo of a man who was wearing a leather jacket that he had screenshotted from a video and showed it to her, “He is your brother, right?”
Lacey was totally dumbfounded.
They had investigated on her and knew that she still had a brother. Then, did they know the fact that she had given birth to a child too?
Did Charles know it?
“Did you guys investigate my background?” Lacey jumped up with anger, as if she was about to fight Boyce. That was her secret and she didn’t allow anyone to know it.
Her feet were tied and the moment she jumped up she fell to the ground.
Boyce smiled. Having confirmed that it was her weakness, he continued to provoke her, “You were pregnant and you even gave birth. However, the baby… died.”
“Shut up! You shut up!” Lacey shouted and shook her head. Boyce’s words seemed like thunder, and fell straight on her head, separating her blood and flesh.
Sometimes she acted crazy, sometimes she laid on the ground motionless like a lifeless puppet.
On the second floor.
Charles frowned. Boyce had only said a few words briefly. However, these few words had shocked him a lot. Lacey had been pregnant? She had given birth?
This was like a bolt from the blue for him.
Now, he finally understood what Boyce meant when he said there would be a surprise.
He grabbed the armrest and stared at her. There were some things he wanted to ask her himself.
With the help of his driver, he went downstairs.
Lacey’s head was on the ground, her hair was scattered blocking her eyes and eyebrows. Through the gap in her hair, she seemed to see Charles rolling his wheelchair and coming towards her.
Charles?
She suddenly raised her head to look at Charles and her eyes widened. Was he here too?
Did he hear what Boyce said just now?
“Charles…”
“Tell me what happened to you? Why did you hide it from me? How come you had a child?” He frowned. At this moment, he realized that he knew very little about her.
She wasn’t willing to tell him and he also didn’t take the initiative to investigate.
He thought, she was only treated badly by her adoptive mother and father.
He had never thought that she had been pregnant.
Lacey had received a huge shock. She shrank, trying to hide. She wanted to hide herself, not wanting to be seen by anyone else.
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.
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