Chapter 2386


    "What you''re saying is..."


    After a long moment of silence, Charles lifted his head to stare intently at Jim''s face.


    "When you first started working for Landry Group, you were brainwashed by Butler Fred and Mickey


    intomitting these acts of treachery?"


    He furrowed his eyebrows and added, "But even though it was seven or eight years ago, Rosalyn and I


    had still treated you well, hadn''t we, Jim? If so, why would you be persuaded by Butler Fred into


    betraying our family? Besides, even if he had sessfully talked you into doing these, what happened


    after that?"


    Charles raised his uninjured hand and snatched the documents out of Jim''s hand.There was a hint of


    fury in his wizened gaze as he red at Jim.


    "All these papers show that thepanies registered under your name are still in business until


    now.Not only that, but they''re bing more and more sessful by the day! "Rosalyn and I can


    understand when you say you were brainwashed and didn''t know better.


    After all, every one of us hadmitted mistakes when we were young, but even after knowing you


    made a mistake, you never tried to correct yourself and instead started investing more effort into


    running these privatepanies.


    "Moreover, you never tried to help the Landry family financially despite knowing about the hardship we


    had gone through for the past year."


    Charles fixated his angry gaze on Jim''s face and snarled, "How''re you going to exin yourself now?"


    Jim furrowed his brows in exasperation when faced with his father''s tant fury.He sighed and plopped


    down in a chaise lounge, then turned to nce at Butler Fred, who was still restrained.


    ''''Are you going to exin, or do you want me to do it?"


    The servants had managed to help Butler Fred up from the ground, but at this moment, his face was


    stained with dirt and dust.


    When he heard Jim talking to him, he could not help sneering as he replied, "Are you kidding me,


    Young Master Landry?


    "If I told them the truth about everything, will you be able to convince the LCGj! AkIIry and Lynch


    families to let me go and show me mercy?"


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    Jim narrowed his eyes and nced first at Charles, then at Joshua.


    Finally, he burst intoughter and said, "It''s clear that I can''t do so."


    "Well, in that case, why should I help you?"


    Butler Fred sneered.


    "


    Do you honestly think I''d be so kind as to help your cause?"


    A glimmer of triumph shed through his eyes as he added, "You have no way of exining yourself


    out of this, do you? Otherwise, why would you have asked me for help? I''m sorry to say this, but...


    "He narrowed his eyes.”


    "Helping you is thest thing I want to do right now, so—"


    "So let me exin instead,"


    Mickey interrupted before Butler Fred could even finish his sentence.


    Mickey had not uttered a single word from the moment he followed Butler, Fred, Rosalyn, and Luna into


    the garden, so Luna and Joshua were both surprised to hear him speak suddenly.


    Luna turned to stare at him in bewilderment.She did not understand why Mickey would volunteer


    himself after hearing Butler Fred dere his refusal to help Jim.


    Did he have a conscience after all? Or, was he trying to draw the line between him and Butler Fred so


    he would have a chance of freedom?


    "Mickey..."