Chapter 23


    Chapter 23 Malicious Woman


    “Hayden! Hayden!” Nicole yelled in the vi, but to no avail.


    Lydia, out of patience, eventually rebuked, “Hey, you psychotic tramp! First, you shamelessly got


    pregnant before getting married, and now you’re here looking for your son. You must be absolutely sick


    in the head!”


    Nevertheless, Nicole, focusing on her son’s search, didn’t bother to indulge in the argument before


    turning around and leaving after she made sure her son wasn’t in the residence.


    It wasn’t until Nicole finally left that Queenie ambled down the staircase. “Mom.” She walked to the


    couch and sat down with a face full of joy.


    Lydia nced at her. Recalling Nicole’s behavior, she figured that Queenie had seeded in her n


    and revealed a relieved grin. “I thought you were attending F&M Apparel’s annual dinner. Why are you


    home this early?”


    Queenie, who went upstairs to get changed upon her return, coincidentally missed Nicole’s visit. At the


    mention of the dinner, a trace of vexation shed across her eyes as she clenched her fists. She


    reluctantly said, “Mom, it turns out that b*tch Nicole was F&M Apparel’s Chief Designer, Lisa.” She had


    never anticipated Nicole to undergo such a massive change in mere five years, nor did they know what


    tant tricks she’d used to achieve such a high position.


    “What?!” Lydia dazedly eximed as she opened her eyes in dismay. Nicole has been F&M Apparel’s


    Lisa all along?!


    Remembering the embarrassing incident back at F&M Apparel’s annual dinner, Queenie couldn’t help


    but feel resentful, thinking it was all Nicole’s fault that she had now be a joke in the country’sProperty belongs to N?vel(D)r/ama.Org.


    upper society.


    “Wait, you mean Nicole’s the Lisa from F&M Apparel?” William squinted his greedy eyes, almost to the


    point where his pupil couldn’t be seen.


    “That’s right, Dad,” Queenie grittingly replied as she turned to her father. “Hell, she even used her


    identity to use and insult me on purpose! I can’t be any more embarrassed at the annual dinner!”


    At that moment, Lydia lowered her head, contemting, as if she remembered something before


    swiftly raising her head and turning to Queenie. “Queenie, have you done the thing?”


    Seeing as William was still present, Queenie pursed her lips without uttering a word, but Lydia, who


    couldn’t be bothered by such a minor inconvenience, grasped her daughter and said, “Tell me! Did you


    do it or not, Queenie?”


    Weirded out by his wife and daughter, William frowned at them. “What are you on about?”


    Since Queenie couldn’t hide it any longer, she came clean about everything. “It was me who abducted


    Nicole’s son, and we’re going to toss him into the ocean, so they won’t be able to find him even if they


    looked everywhere!” Malice shed across her eyes when she said that.


    Enraged, William sprung up from his seat and gave Queenie a p, to which her nched face


    immediately swelled and the smirk on her face turned upside down. She peered at her father in


    disbelief. William had never beaten her ever since she was a child, but the smack he justnded was


    drawn with unrepressed strength, leaving a scorching throb on her cheek.


    “Imbecile!” William bellowed as he red at his daughter’s pitiable face.


    Having been humiliated during F&M Apparel’s annual dinner, she was now served with a ferocious


    smack by her own father. Naturally, her voice started to grow tremulous. “Dad?”


    “Nicole is now the Chief Designer of F&M Apparel, and she has the full support of thepany. Do you


    think they will just stand idly by and watch as her son goes missing?” William rebuked with immense


    rage on his face. He grew so exasperated that his body trembled just by looking at his ipetent


    daughter before him.


    Of course, Queenie hadn’t considered that far into the matter. Pressing her tingling cheek, she stared


    at her father with her reddened eyes. “But the child belongs to Colton, Dad! If he were to know about


    what happened five years ago and realize the woman was Nicole, we’d all be dead!” She frustratingly


    vented with her eyes thoroughly reddened. “Remember how you treated Nicole five years ago? Even if


    she’s now the Chief Designer of F&M Apparel, there’s no way she would ever help our family!”


    Upon hearing that, William calmed down and regained hisposure. Indeed, with how he’d treated


    Nicole and her mother five years ago, Nicole would surely hold that grudge forever. “Get the child


    home. I’ll handle the rest,” he wearily instructed. Having been affiliated with the business field for so


    many years, he was nothing but experienced.


    Meanwhile, Queenie was still unable toprehend why William would want the child back given that


    she could easily marry into the Gardner Family once the child was out of the picture.