Sitting on the chair, Anthony was emitting an intimidating aura. “It’s fine if you don’t want to talk. I’ll bring your parents and fiancée here to join in on the fun.”
Anthony seemed heartless and evil when he said that to him.
Furious, Hudson gazed at Anthony with his eyes wide opened and yelled, “You son of a b*tch! You can kill me now if you’ve got the balls to do so. Don’t you dare lay a hand on my family members!”
“Ha!” Anthony chuckled. “You think you’re in a position to make demands? By the way, I heard that your fiancée is pregnant. What if I told her about the things that you’ve done? Do you think that she’ll be so shocked and end up having a miscarriage?”
“You…” Hudson climbed up from the ground and lunged himself toward Anthony.
Joseph was quick to react by kicking the back of his feet, causing him to lose balance and fall onto the ground.
Meanwhile, Anthony continued to stare at him with contempt in his eyes. After a while, he instructed Joseph, “Bring his parents and his fiancée over here right now.”
Hudson got up from the ground again and grabbed Joseph by his collar. His gaze turned toward Anthony as he exclaimed, “You’re despicable!”
Anthony glared at him apathetically. “I can be even more despicable. Do you believe me?”
As they stared down at each other, Anthony was confident that he had the leverage against Hudson.
“Okay, I’ll talk! What do you want to know?” Hudson finally budged.
Anthony averted his eyes from him to glance at Joseph. “Go get Mrs. Featherstone a glass of fruit juice and some pastries too while you’re at it.”
Joseph was stunned for two seconds or so before glancing at me with a perplexed look. After that, he simply nodded and went on his way.
Slumping on the ground, Hudson seemed chagrined as he looked at me and uttered, “I didn’t lay a finger on her. You guys can go and check for yourselves if you don’t believe me.”
Anthony stayed quiet as he gazed at him nonchalantly. That being said, he looked like he was able to kill someone with just his cold stare.
Hudson stopped for a while before adding on, “I only did what Ms. Featherstone told me to, which was to bring Ms. Stanhope to the designated hotel. As to what happened after that, I have no idea.”
The Ms. Featherstone that he was referring to, was Sally Featherstone.
“That’s it?” Anthony queried, with his eyes darkened.
Hudson nodded. “Yeah, that’s it. I didn’t recognize the guy waiting inside the hotel. As I was escorting Ms. Stanhope into the hotel, he had his back against me. He looked like he was about six feet tall. He had this cold demeanor about him.”
Anthony remained silent. Since Joseph was nowhere to be seen, Hudson was worried that Anthony was still planning to threaten him with the lives of his parents and fiancée.
He spilled out as much as he could to deter that from happening. “Ms. Featherstone gave me three hundred thousand. The money is in the Ferrari. I desperately needed the money to pay the dowry to my fiancée. I wouldn’t have done such a thing if it wasn’t for that.”
Glaring at Anthony, Hudson feigned a pitiful look. “Mr. Featherstone, please, I beg you. You can do whatever you want with me. Just please don’t hurt my family.”
Anthony continued to remain silent. After a while, Joseph came back with a bag filled with pastries and a glass of fruit juice.
He got someone to bring a table over to me and placed the pastries and the fruit juice neatly on the table. “Mrs. Featherstone, please help yourself!”
After that, Joseph immediately turned his gaze toward Anthony and reported, “I’ve already brought them here. They’re outside right now.”
Hudson thought that his family was brought here and got furious. He glanced at Anthony with his fiery eyes and uttered, “Anthony, you’re an abhorrent piece of sh*t. You said that you weren’t going to harm my family if I told you what I know. You mendacious scoundrel!”
Joseph ordered two big strong men to hold him down before replying, “Who told you that the people outside are your family?”
At that moment, the sound of high heels clattering could be heard approaching. The person who was walking in was none other than Sally herself.
It was a warm and cozy day in J City. Although it was only January, the temperature had already risen.
She was wearing a dress paired with shiny high heels, which made her seem classy and elegant.
That being said, her classy attire didn’t quite fit into the setting. It made her look out of place.
Following beside her were two men in black suits. She was probably forcefully brought to this place.
After taking a scan around the place, Sally’s face turned pale when she saw Anthony. “Anthony, why are you here?”
Anthony stretched his back and gazed at her with his eyebrows raised. “Why can’t I be here?”
Seeing how severely hurt Hudson was, Sally suddenly felt queasy and almost fell to the ground.
Anthony pinched his forehead while staring at Hudson. “Repeat what you’ve just said.”
Hudson’s facial expression relaxed after he realized it wasn’t his family who was being brought here by Joseph. Having calmed down, his train of thoughts became clearer.
“Five days ago, Ms. Featherstone gave me a call after taking her annual leave. In the call, she asked me to do a task for her. The award for completing the task was three hundred thousand. Normally, I wouldn’t accept a task like this. However, I desperately needed the money to pay off the dowry to my fiancée’s parents. If I couldn’t pay the dowry, we would have no choice but to abort our baby.”
He took a breather before continuing, “My parents are farmers. We struggled to build a house with the meager income they make. Eventually, we ended up borrowing a lot of money. Not to mention, my family obviously wouldn’t have three hundred thousand lying around. So, to get three hundred thousand, I promised to do the task.”
“What utter nonsense!” Sally was enraged. “I don’t recall ever calling you, much less giving you money. Enough with your false accusations!”
Hudson glared at her. “The money is still in the car. Since you were paranoid of anyone finding the car key, you hid it under the wall surrounding the White residence. Didn’t you tell me all of this yourself? The three hundred thousand were in cash, and you’ve stashed them all inside the Ferrari.”
“The money is still there. You can go and have a look yourself. I’m not lying!”
Anthony stayed silent as he directed his eyes toward Joseph. Joseph then nodded his head before saying, “I’ve checked inside the car. There was indeed three hundred thousand worth of cash inside it. Since the notes weren’t marked, they probably weren’t taken out from the bank. And because of that, I wasn’t able to trace the origin of the money.”
Sally was feeling despondent as he glanced at Anthony. “Anthony, I’m your aunt. There’s no incentive for me to hurt your wife. You know that, right? You can’t just blindly trust what he’s saying.”
Joseph passed his phone over to Anthony and said, “Ms. Featherstone here has met Ms. Lorraine once before in J City.”
After looking at Joseph’s phone, his cold gaze turned toward Sally. “You came to J City in advance?”
Anxious, Sally’s face turned pale white. “I-I came to see my father,” she stuttered.
“Then why did you meet with Rylee?” Anthony was running out of patience. His eyes were ice-cold.
Sally’s body was shivering as she responded, “She was the one who wanted to meet up. She blackmailed me into tricking Sienna. If I didn’t comply, she would inform Cameron of the things I did behind her back, which would then lead to a fallout between us.”
“Ha!” Anthony sneered.
A while later, he gazed at me and noticed that I hadn’t yet touched the fruit juice and pastries in front of me. “Are they not to your liking?” he queried while frowning.
“No!” I shook my head.
“Are you tired?” He reached out his hand to grab my arm.
I nodded in response. I don’t know if we should continue to dig deeper or not. Would doing so further complicate the situation? If the culprit behind all this really was Sally, what would Anthony do?
Not to mention, Rylee is also now involved in all of this. Since he has such close ties with both Rylee and Sally, I don’t think he could bring himself to hurt them.
Exhausted, I uttered, “Anthony, send me back home.”
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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