But when Lowell was about to turn around and leave, he caught a glimpse of the bottle of gastric medicine on the table.
He took a cautious glance at Gordon and saw that he didn’t look too well.
“Mr. Jones, do you have a stomach ache?”
Gordon reached for the document and glanced at Lowell. “I’m fine.”
Lowell pursed his lips. Sensing Gordon’s inexplicable anger, he didn’t dare to press him further and excused himself.
“Okay.”
Gordon then lowered his head and focused on the investigation report.
He read through it very quickly. In a matter of mere minutes, he had finished reading the entire document.
His expression was livid and he threw the document at the wall in a fit of rage.
No way!
Wasn’t it obvious that Ashlyn had set him up back then? How come she was also a victim?
Gordon felt that the results of the investigation were just a dark joke. That night four years ago, he was drugged. In a haze, he asked Ashlyn why she was doing this, to which she answered that she wanted him because she loved him.
However, Lowell’s investigation revealed that the CCTV cameras in that hotel were broken that night, but a witness saw that Ashlyn was also drugged.
If that was true, then why didn’t Ashlyn explain herself in the past three years?
It was unbelievable!
Gordon’s eyes clouded over.
He then dialed a number and barked, “Come in!”
Then he slammed the phone down.
Lowell held the receiver and gulped nervously.
He knew that Gordon would be furious to find out about this.
But what could he do? He was Gordon’s secretary!
Lowell took a deep breath, stood up, and walked to the office.
“Mr. Jones?”
“Is this some kind of joke?”
Lowell inadvertently looked into Gordon’s dark eyes, which sent a shiver down his spine.
“Mr. Jones, I personally investigated this,” Lowell said, averting his gaze.
Even he couldn’t believe it when he got the results, so he went to the hotel himself to find the so-called witness.
The witness didn’t lie. He was a waiter at the hotel and he remembered the dress that Ashlyn wore at the party.
The man said that Ashlyn was so beautiful that he couldn’t help but look at her from time to time throughout the party.
It was a man who drugged her, but the witness had no idea who that man was. After the man drugged Ashlyn, the witness never saw him again.
And the person who drugged Gordon was not Ashlyn, but the same man who had drugged her.
If it was all part of Ashlyn’s plan, there was no need for her to drug herself.
After all, she was at a party with no friends. The only person she knew there was her boss, who had taken her to the party.
There was one other thing that Lowell didn’t mention in the report. “Mr. Jones, there is another thing. A month after that night, Sonia Cooper went abroad and never came back.”
Sonia Cooper was head over heels in love with Gordon. This was a well-known fact to everyone.
It was known to all in Courtbush that Sonia had been chasing after Gordon for a couple of years.
But Gordon didn’t like Sonia, and even Nathaniel thought that the Cooper family was not up to par with their family, so he didn’t have a clear-cut stand regarding this.
Nobody knew that Sonia had something to do with what happened that night.
But Lowell had a good memory. He remembered that earlier that night, Sonia had been waiting for Gordon to get off work outside the company building. Gordon had grown impatient and snapped, telling her to give up on him.
After saying that, Gordon had walked away. But Sonia had shouted stubbornly, “Gordon, you’ll be mine!”
On the surface, this wasn’t that strange. It was just that there were too many coincidences revolving around the matter, which made Lowell a little suspicious.
But it was just his suspicion, so he didn’t mention it in the report.
Hearing this, Gordon frowned. “What does this have to do with her?”
“We won’t know until we find the person who drugged you that night.”
After a slight pause, Lowell added, “But this matter probably has nothing to do with Ashlyn.”
“What do you mean by ‘probably’?” Gordon sneered. “It’s just that the evidence is not against her. How can you be sure that she has nothing to do with it?”
Lowell fell silent.
Impatient, Gordon roared, “Get out!”
“Yes, Mr. Jones.”
Lowell felt relieved to be dismissed. He turned around and left in a hurry, closing the door behind him.
Gordon sank into his chair and rubbed his temples. His eyes were dark.
The unbearable pain in his stomach mixed with his anger led him to believe that Ashlyn was despicable.
Did she do all of this on purpose?
She didn’t explain it during their three-year marriage.
She waited to see him make a fool of himself, didn’t she?
On the other hand, Ashlyn didn’t wake up until nearly nine o’clock in the morning.
When she peeled her eyes open, she found that she had slept in. The curtains were closed tightly, so the room was still dark.
Ashlyn stretched herself a little and struggled to sit up in bed, feeling a little hot.
She pressed the back of her hand against her forehead and frowned.
Unluckily, she had a fever.
She didn’t have a thermometer at home, but she could tell that she was sick.
Ashlyn reached for her phone and sent a message to Talia. Then she lay down and pulled the quilt up to her chin. Soon, she fell asleep again.
Perhaps it was because she was sick that she didn’t sleep well and dreamed a lot about the things that took place in the past.
When Ashlyn was fifteen, a group of bullies cornered her in an ally. She fought them off and tried to make her escape, but she was suddenly attacked from behind by a boy with a baseball bat. The bat hit the back of her head and she blacked out.
Before she completely lost consciousness, she vaguely saw a boy run over and catch her.
The next time she woke up, she was already in the hospital with Stevie and Vivien sitting beside her. The nurse said that a boy took her to the hospital and he had paid for the bills. Unfortunately, he didn’t leave any contact information. The only thing he left her was a baseball jacket.
There was a lot of blood on the jacket. When Vivien washed it, she found a note in it, which read, “Gordon, will you go to KT later?”
Ashlyn believed it was Gordon who had saved her. Later, she went to his school and gave the jacket back to him.
Gordon, who was 18 years old back then, was tall and handsome, and his face looked warm and gentle under the sunlight. He was polite to her, completely different from the grown-up Gordon.
However, in the next moment, Gordon stood over her, pressing her down on her knees.
Ashlyn suddenly woke up.
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