Chapter 167


    Chapter 167 Tricked


    “Weren’t you wearing it this morning and staunchly refused to return it to Jonathan? Don’t you


    remember?” Josephine couldn’t help feeling a tad suspicious at the panicked expression on Margaret’s


    face.


    “Oh, you’re referring to that watch?” It was as though something suddenly urred to Margaret. “I took


    it off this morning before leaving home and ced it on the table!”


    “You ced it on the table?” Josephine swept a gaze over the table in bewilderment, but there was


    only an empty box there.


    Huh? There’s no watch there.


    Upon glimpsing the dubious look in her eyes, Margaret uneasily changed her tune. “Perhaps I took it off


    when I took a shower but forgot where I put it. I’ll look for it when I’m free.”


    “You’re not lying to me, are you, Mom?” Josephine regarded her skeptically.


    She took it off but forgot where she put it? After so many years, I know her all too well! She would


    never bear to take off a watch worth over ten million. Instead, she would probably unt it everywhere,


    afraid that people wouldn’t know that she was wearing such an expensive watch!


    Hearing that, Margaret snorted and retorted, “Why would I do so? It’s just a worthless watch, no? Did


    you think I sold it off secretly?”


    “That’s not what I meant, Mom—”


    Surprise flooded Josephine at Margaret’s intense reaction.


    I was merely asking about it, so why did she react so strongly?


    “Okay, stop talking about that! It’s merely a worthless watch, isn’t it? I’ll just pay him back if I misced


    it!” Margaret harrumphed, cutting Josephine off mid-utterance and giving her no chance to speak.


    “Mom, I—” Josephine wanted to speak further, but Margaret threw her a hard re.


    Having no other choice, she could only heave a sigh.


    A few minutester, she put down her fork and got to her feet before heading to the study.She still had


    a ton of unfinished work regarding the construction site, so she naturally hadn’t the time to keep


    interrogating Margaret about the watch.


    When she left, Jonathan also made to stand up. Unexpectedly, Margaret called him back no sooner


    had he done so.


    “Jonathan!”


    “Yes?” Jonathan turned back around.


    “Did your watch really cost over ten million?” Margaret eyed him dubiously as though she didn’t believe


    that a watch could be worth more than ten million.


    “Why would I lie to you?” Jonathan wasn’t in the mood to bandy words with her. If Josephine weren’t


    her daughter, I wouldn’t even deign to spare her a single nce!


    “Then why did I hear that it’s merely an imitation, a knock-off? Not only that, but it’s even a cheap


    imitation!” Margaret’s brows drew together.


    “Who said that?” Jonathan likewise frowned slightly.


    Don’t tell me she took the watch to some expert and had it appraised?


    “A friend of mine…” With a grim expression on her face, Margaret continued, “She even said that such


    cheap imitations are somon in the market that it’s not even worth a hundred grand, much less ten


    million. At most, it’s only worth fifty grand!”


    “You’ve been tricked!” Jonathan cut straight to the chase with her.


    Would Vacheron Constantin be so daring that they would sell a knock-off at their own store and even


    price it at over ten million? If someone were to sue them, even a hundred million wouldn’t suffice for the


    compensation they’d have to pay, let alone ten million!


    Upon hearing that, Margaret instantly rebutted forcefully, “That’s impossible! She’s…”


    “What were you going to say?” Jonathan demanded, arching an eyebrow.


    “N-Nothing!” Seemingly having realized that she had had a slip of the tongue, Margaret hastily pped


    a hand over her mouth.


    “All right, that’s enough. Just drop the act! You sold that watch, didn’t you? I was simply restraining


    myself from exposing you when Josephine was here earlier.” Jonathan exposed her when he saw her


    panicked and flustered look.


    Hah! She even imed to have taken it off and forgotten where she ced it. Did she take me for a


    gullible three-year-old kid?


    “What nonsense are you spouting, Jonathan? When did I sell that watch off? Don’t you nder me!”


    Margaret became even more emotional, acting as though she had truly been used wrongly.


    “You’re saying that I’m ndering you? Fine, then tell me where the watch is!” Jonathan spat since he


    couldn’t be bothered to waste his breath with her.


    Then, he warned, “Don’t tell me that you took it off and forgot where you ced it. Even a three-year-


    old kid won’t believe such a lie! If all else fails, I can ask for the surveince footage right now and see


    whether the watch was on your hand when you left the house this morning.”


    “N-No! Don’t ask for the surveince footage! I’ll tell you! I’ll talk, okay?” Margaret flew into a tizzy the


    second she heard that he was going to get the surveince footage.


    “So, where’s the watch?” Jonathan questioned coldly.


    She’s really stubborn and would act dumb until the veryst moment! If I hadn’t threatened to ask for


    the surveince footage, she would’ve probably denied it to the bitter end!


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    “I lost it!” Margaret admitted in a mutter.


    “You lost it?” Frowning, Jonathan queried, “You lost over ten million?”


    Rolling her eyes, Margaret retorted, “Of course not! I only lost fifty or sixty thousand! They said the


    watch was a knock-off and was only worth forty to fifty thousand. I had no money, so I gave them the


    watch!”


    From the looks of her right then, she was all righteous as though she hadn’t done anything wrong.


    In fact, she even wore a nonchnt and indifferent expression.


    “Why did you gamble such a huge sum when you had no money?” Jonathan threw her a chilly look.


    She knew that she had no money, yet she dared to lose a whopping fifty to sixty thousand?


    “I don’t usually bet that much!” Scoffing, Margaret continued, “I happened to wear that watch today, and


    they keptplimenting it. Thus, I told them that Josephine gifted it to me, and it cost over ten million!


    They didn’t believe me and even snubbed me about how I was usually very stingy when I yed with


    them that I don’t even dare ce a huge bet. In a fit of pique, I started staking a hundred or two every


    round. Who would’ve known that I would be so unlucky as to lose close to sixty thousand in an


    afternoon?”


    At that, she groused, “Later on, I really hadn’t that much money, so I had no choice but to use the


    watch to cover my debt. But at that time, they said that the watch was an imitation and was only worth


    fifty thousand! Argh! I’m so pissed off! That watch should’ve been good for a hundred grand at least


    since it was so beautiful!”


    Even now, she didn’t believe that the watch was worth more than ten million. In her opinion, it was


    already amazing that a watch could fetch about a hundred thousand.


    Besides, can a deadbeat like him afford to buy a watch over ten million? That’s downright absurd!


    “You gave the watch that costs more than ten million away just to pay off a debt of fifty grand?”


    Jonathan sneered.


    It’s in as day that it was a trap they dug for her! They first tricked her into cingrger bets before


    lying that the watch was a knock-off. And in the end, they duped her into giving away the watch that


    cost more than ten million to cover a debt of fifty thousand. That’s a lousy trick to fool children, yet she


    actually fell for it despite being nearly fifty years old?