In the ward, Garrett and Laney were having a heart-to-heart talk. Natalie did not want to disturb them.
Since L was still locked up and hadn’t been dealt with, she decided on dealing with L first.
“Let me out! You can’t keep me in captivity here. This is illegal!”
L screamed her threats at Mesue. “Do you know who I work for? A mere bodyguard like you can’t
afford to offend the Harding family.” Mesue kept a straight face, letting her words in one ear and out the
other.
Natalie wasn’t expecting to see L still this arrogant. With a sneer, she looked at L coldly.
When L finally saw Natalie, she fell silent for a moment, then craned her neck and pretended to be
calm.
“Natalie, let me out. I’m working for Mr. Harding. You won’t really dare hurt me, right? You can’t go
against the Harding family.” L was so foolish and naive that it amused Natalie. “From what I know,
you have a younger brother studying in Barnes. You came here for him, right?”
L’s heart tightened. Fear rose in her ch*st, making her breathing slow. “What do you want?” Natalie
spoke slowly, making sure her every word was clear. “From now on, no one from your family is allowed
to set foot on Barnes again. As for you, you can confess your sins in prison for the rest of your life.”
The serious look on Natalie’s face, matched with the severity of her statement, made L tremble in
fear. Her face turned paper white as she shouted, “I don’t believe you! Mr. Harding will help me! Miss
Gibson won’t let me suffer here!”
Coldly, Natalie smiled and said, “This is what Garrett had wanted. You attempted to hurt his wife. Do
you really expect his father to save you? The Harding family won’t help you now. Do you really think Mr.
Harding will choose you, a mere assistant over his son?”
L looked like a ghost now. She stared at Natalie, eyes nk and l*ps trembling.
“You’re lucky Laney is fine now.” Natalie looked L straight in the eyes. Her voice was chilling when
she continued, “Otherwise, you will be charged with homicide. You’ll be a murderer because you
conspired with Kailee to k*ill Laney. Now Kailee could only be desperate to get rid of you, how can she
possibly help you?”
L’s heart sank. “Kailee… She lied to me… I had no idea she was nning on k*illing Mrs.
Harding…”
However, her chance to repent had passed. It was toote now.
Garrett’s men were already quietly waiting at the door. When Natalie and L’s conversation was over,
they stormed in and took L out.
They covered her mouth and all she could do was whimper. “Waah… Waah…”
L struggled hard, but she was too weak to resist the brute force of a group of strong men. No matter
how desperate she was to break away, she couldn’t do anything to prevent them from dragging her.
Despite seeing that L was finally getting dragged out, the anger in Natalie’s heart was still raging.
Laney almost died. How could she calm down? Brandon let out a dragged sigh. He had been following
her silently all this time. wr*pping Natalie in his arms, he patted her head softly whileforting her,
“Don’t worry. It’s all over. Both Laney and her baby are fine. As for Kailee, I’m sure Garrett will deal with
her well. He will never let go of anyone who hurt Laney.”
Natalie buried her head in Brandon’s arms. Her voice was muffled as she said, “I was so scared. Laney
almost died. Brandon, do you think something like that would happen to me?” Holding Natalie tightly in
his arms, Brandon promised solemnly, “No. I promise to protect you the best I can. I will never put you
in any harm.”
The whole day, Natalie had been nothing but anxious. Only now had she finally rxed. She held on to
Brandon tightly, releasing the tension on her shoulders and the fear in her heart. Tears burst out from
her eyes.
With a sigh, Brandon kept Natalie wr*pped in his arms, not minding the tears that soaked his expensive
designer suit.
“The number you’ve dialed cannot be reached at this moment. Please call backter.”
“Damn it!” Kailee r*bbed her temples, clearly irritated.
She had just returned from a trip and had been trying to get in t*ouch with L, but to no avail. She
couldn’t help but feel a bit agitated.
Just as she was plotting her next move, her phone lit up.
She picked it up and saw a message from Laney’s attending physician. “Laney gave birth to a girl. She
and the baby are doing just fine.”
The message only served to irritate Kailee some more. She hadn’t expected Laney to be lucky enough
to survive the ident! As it turned out, it was all Kailee’s doing. First, she bribed L and got her to
distract Ian. Then, she told the physician to stall and buy some more time. Finally, she had a care
worker w*et the floor of Laney’s ward, causing her to sl*p and have her baby prematurely.
When Laney was rescued after her fall, Kailee immediately asked the care worker to sneak back into
the ward and mop up every drop of water on the floor.
As an extra precaution against the worst-case scenario, she sent someone to delete all the surveince
footage of the corridor in Laney’s ward. That way, even if her n were exposedter, there’d be no
evidence to prove that she had really caused Laney’s premature delivery. 4
As the hospital belonged to the Gibson family, it wasn’t too hard for her to pull all of these strings.
In her quest to k*ill Laney and the baby, Kailee had taken every possible factor into ount. Despite
this, she seemed to have neglected Brandon and Natalie.
She’d nned to instruct the physician to k*ill Laney during the operation, but hadn’t expected that
Brandon would contract a different doctor to help save Laney after finding out that shed suffered a
hemorrhage.
The physician that Kailee had arranged for Laney was terrified of the Larson Group and the White
family. In addition to that, the doctor that Brandon came along with was present throughout the
operation, so he didn’t dare do anything.
With all this in mind, Kailee began to develop a throbbing headache.
She hadn’t expected all her efforts to be in vain. “Idiot, you couldn’t even carry out such a simple task.”
Kailee couldn’t help but curse at the physician’s message.
In order to deal with the situation, however, she endured the irritation she felt and paid the physician
handsomely, asking him to retreat to a clinic in the countryside and keep a low profile for a while.
After receiving the bank alert confirming that the money had been sent, he happilyplied with
Kailee’s suggestion.
Afterwards, she sat on the sofa and pondered upon other solutions to her peculiar predicament.
Now, Laney had sessfully given birth to her child. Even if Leo and Vera didn’t like her initially, they’d
subconsciously begin to ept her for the sake of Garrett and the baby. This waspletely
uneptable to Kailee. She had nned several things, and had spent a lot of time and effort pleasing
Leo and Vera. In addition to this, she hadvishly paid off L and the physician to k*ill Laney and her
unborn baby – all in a bid to marry into the Harding family.
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In the end, it seemed like it would have all been for nothing. The mere prospect of this made her
struggle to maintain herposure.
After giving the situation some thought for a while, her eyes suddenly lit up.
She unlocked her phone and nced at a picture on it. A devious smile immediately shed across on
her face.
There were two people in the photo. The one on the left was Garrett, who had lied that he was going on
a business trip. He was sound asleep in a bed with his clothespletely ruffled. The woman on the
right was Kailee, scantily dressed and flushed.
“Oh Garrett…” Stroking the photo, Kailee muttered, You’ll be mine sooner orter.”
Kailee gazed at the photo disyed on her phone, envisioning the sheer turmoil and devastation that
would contort Laney’s features upon witnessing this image. As she contemted this, a sinister grin of
gratification spread across her face.