She then hung up the phone. And she became even more irritated When she saw the smashed door. Anna had always believed that Wayne was very kind despite he looked cruel. However, she realized she might be mistaken.
Jennie might have done something wrong, but it was all part of a grudge between the previous generation. Jennie and Wayne had no bad blood; she was his mother anyway.
The more Anna thought about it, the more enraged she became, so she called Andrew and asked him, “Help me figure out how much working capital the company has left.”
She then made a few more calls and calculated how much money she could withdraw. Anna realized she couldn’t sell her properties right away and couldn’t get that much money out for a while.
After that, she sat in front of the hotel, lost in thought.
In the evening, a car drove up to the door, and Gabriel stepped out. He said to Anna, “Miss Gabriel, Wayne’s worried about you, so he asked me to pick you up.”
However, no matter how hard Gabe persuaded her, Anna refused to return with him. Helplessly, Gabriel said, “Miss Gabriel, please don’t make things difficult for me. If you don’t come back with me, I can’t go back either!
Anna said, “Then you’d better stay here. There are plenty of guest, rooms here so you can just stay here like I do.”
Gabe paused for a moment before saying, “He’s actually doing it for you. I believe you should leave this matter alone. Wayne said some not- so-nice things about this. But if you’ll go back, he’ll be polite to them.”
Anna frowned and asked, “What? What did he say?”
Gabe hesitated, then said cautiously, “He said it was the first time they had seen each other in the last twenty years, but this happened immediately. It doesn’t seem like a coincidence. Five million dollars is not a small sum of money. The money meant nothing to him, but he was worried that they was actually blackmailing him.”
Anna slapped the table hard and stood up, shouting, “What is wrong with him? Who the hell would do that? Ryan is going to be a police later, and he has a promising future. How is it possible that he and Jennie would blackmail Wayne?!”
Gabe remained silent and listened patiently to Anna. Wayne had ordered him to say that because it would enrage Anna so that she would go home.
Then Anna stood up and said, “I’m going to argue with him!”
Gabe’s eyes widened, he looked up, and he was taken aback. Wayne, you re really smart. I didn’t think that your trick would work, but it works anyways, he thought to himself.
“Great! Let me drive then. Miss Gabriel, do you have any luggage?”
“No, I don’t.” Before Anna could finish her sentence, she noticed someone standing on the second floor. When she turned around, she discovered that the person had vanished. Anna’s heart skipped a beat as she realized Jennie had probably just overheard their entire conversation.
As Jennie sat at her bedroom desk, flipping through her photo album, there was a knock on the door. “It’s me, Anna,” Anna said.
“Please come in,” Jennie said, wiping her tears.
Anna quietly opened the door and walked in as if she didn’t want to startle Jennie. “Are you crying?” she asked cautiously.
Jennie tried to smile and said, “No. My eyes have swollen from crying over the last few days.”
“You just heard our conversation, didn’t you?” Anna asked after a brief pause.
When she saw Jennie’s sad expression, she realized it was true. She then explained, “Don’t get me wrong; Wayne wasn’t doubting you. He was trying to make me angry so that I would go home.”
Jennie nodded and said, “You don’t need to explain, Anna. He has every reason to hate me, and James would have been alive if it weren’t for me. I will always owe it to the Wrights. I believe I can save my son myself. Besides, I don’t even want him to help me.”
Anna frowned and asked, “Tell me, who exactly did Ryan offend? Why can’t you call the police?”
Jennie frowned and didn’t want to talk to Anna about it.
Seeing that, Anna said, “We’ll have to call the cops if we can’t get that much money. He’s a top student at school, so they will take this very seriously. That is the best option for us. To be honest, I still think we should call 911.”
Jennie abruptly grabbed Anna’s sleeve and exclaimed, “No!
Don’t!”
Anna asked suspiciously, “Why? You should at least give me a reason because Ryan’s life is on the line.”
Jennie appeared to be torn as if she couldn’t breathe. She immediately broke into a cold sweat.
Anna went on, “What matters more than his life? He’s your son, Jennie.”
Jennie became increasingly depressed and then started crying. Anna was speechless, standing still and whispering Jennie’s name.
Jennie let go of Anna’s hand and motioned for her to sit down, wiping her tears away, saying, “I understand what you mean, Anna, because I’ve considered it myself. If I can’t find that much money, I’ll have to call the cops. However, the man who kidnapped Ryan is an outlaw. If he knows it, he won’t let Ryan go.”
Anna frowned, thinking the incident was related to what had happened before. “Who the hell is he?” she couldn’t help but ask.
Jennie said through gritted teeth, “William Davis. That man has been haunting me like a ghost for the last thirty years. He’s the one who got James killed.”
Hearing that, Anna was stunned.
It was already dusk at this point. The room was dim, with only a small table lamp on the table remaining lit
Jennie brought the photo album to the coffee table and showed Anna the black and white photograph on the first page. In the photos, a young man and a woman stood side by side. A short little boy stood beside the man, and the woman held a newborn baby.
Jennie said, “My biological parents abandoned me when I was born. At that time, Wayne’s parents went to a church nearby and found me at the gate. Then I became a member of the Wright family. James was only a year old at the time.*’
Peter was already a successful man when he was young and he was very much in love with his wife. A few more years later, Mrs. Wright finally became pregnant with James.
Back then, as usual, they went to a church on a nearby mountain. There, they picked up Jennie. And they treated her as if she were their own child.
“The Wrights never told me I wasn’t one of them, and I didn’t find out until I was 17 that I was adopted.”
“It’s hard to tell because you and James look so much alike,” Anna said, looking at the picture of the two of them.
Jennie began to smile when she saw the picture of James. Her cold, pale fingertips stroked the photograph gently as if she wanted to touch her past. People often asked Peter if his children were twins. Peter and his wife thought it was because of fate, so they never explained anything to others. Therefore, Jennie didn’t realize she was adopted until she was seventeen.
Everything was perfect for her at the time. Nothing would bother her because everyone around her was friendly to her. So, she even thought that everyone in this world would be nice to her.
Later on, she fell in love with William when she was in college, which was the best time of her life. She had her parents to spoil her when she was at home, her brother to look after her when she was away, and her boyfriend to spend time with her at school.
“I was young and stupid at the time. I had always assumed that there would be no liars in the world, and that I had found true love. So, I was naive and willing to believe in anything. William said he’d marry me after graduated, and I agreed because I was afraid something unexpected would happen later.”
Jennies face gradually turned pale as she recalled the painful past. “Then I got pregnant,” she said
“The baby is Wayne?”, Anna asked, her eyes widening in surprise.
Jennie nodded as she felt regret. She became pregnant the first time she and William had made love. Although Jennie had great faith that James would marry her, she still felt scared about the whole situation. So, she told James about it.
James had always been a gentlemanly gentleman. When he found out about it, he became enraged and even hit William. While they were fighting, Jennie cried out and tried to stop the two men from beating each other up.
James then took her straight out of the school. On the way, he told her what he knew about William Davis. It wasn’t until then that Jennie realized William was a liar.
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