Chapter 287 The Driver Will Lead the Way
Chloe pressed a palm over her mother''s mouth.
"Mom! Lower your voice!"
Nicole nodded, her expression harrowing. She lowered her voice and whispered, "He came to see
you?"
"Yes! I''m so scared! Mom, what should we do?"
Nicole was flustered too as she paced around the room nervously.
"Don''t panic, don''t panic. Tell me, how did he appear? And why did he want to see you?"
Chloe sucked in a deep breath and reiterated the days'' happenings to her mother. "Mom, you need
to think of a way! I gave him a thousand dors, and the card is already expired but I lied saying
there’s money inside. I couldn''t have chased him away otherwise!
Once he realizes there''s no money in the card, with his personality, he won''t forgive me!"
Nicole’s face turned pale as a ghost, "He knows you''re marrying into the Dawson family, he''ll
definitely stick to you like a vampire!"
Nicole was at a loss too, the more she thought about it, the more panicked she felt, "Why would he
come here? How could hee here!"
After she married Bruce all those years ago, she found out he was a gambler, even losing all her
dowry to gambling.
She wanted to divorce him but couldn''t, every time she wanted to sneak away he would catch her
and beat her up, even forcing her to sell herself to repay his gambling debts, after that he even...
"Wasn''t he given a life sentence in jail? Howe he’s released now, all of a sudden?" Chloe
asked.
Nicole buried her face in her hands, and said painfully, "He hates me, he''s taking revenge on me!
He promised me he will nevere again!"
"What? Mom, have you seen him before?" Chloe was reminded of the incident when her mother
stole the pair of cufflinks, "Could it be you did that to raise money for him?"
Her mother nodded, "He has finished all the money already? He must be taking drugs again!
Finally, after all these years, I''m living a good life now, and again he’s back to cause me trouble!
When can I ever escape from his evil clutches?"
She shook her head non-stop, "I can’t let the public know about my past! I am Mrs. Hamilton, even
though I''m not the daughter of a rich family, at least I am a good wife and loving mother!"
"Why does he keeping back to cause us trouble? And right at the time when you''re marrying
into the
Dawson family!” Nicole was at a loss, feeling panicked and helpless.
"He promised me he would leave and nevere back!”
Seeing her mother''s emotional breakdown, Chloe grew anxious too, "Mom! Calm down! We have to
keep our wits about us! We can’t let Daddy realize something is wrong! Otherwise, we''ll have to
leave this family for real!
We can''t let Bryan know of Bruce Walker''s existence."
"I know, Chloe, but he''s not only here for money. I was the reason he was jailed all those years ago,
I know he''s back to take revenge on me!”
"Then what should we do? I just got pregnant with Bryan''s child, we''re getting married soon, I won’t
let him ruin this for me." Chloe was losing her control over the situation. 1
"Mom, how did you get him into jail? Maybe we can do it again!”
"Do you know how big of a risk I took? Now we are both women with status, we''ll be greatly
restricted in anything we do. Besides, he must have his guard up around me. The same method
won''t work again."
"There''s nothing we can do now?" Chloe fell on the sofa, face as pale as a ghost.
Her deepest memories as a child were when he woulde home after drinking, she and her
mother held onto each other and hid under the table in fear, but were still unable to escape from the
terrible beatings...
Chloe''s face turned paler by the second.
"No! I won''t live that life again! I am Chloe Hamilton and the future Mrs. Dawson!
I''ve spent so much time and effort in cultivating my rtionship with Bryan, no one can take it away
from me! Even if he''s my biological father, I won''t allow it!” Chloe caressed her stomach, eyes
shining determinedly.
"Chloe, he''s working in the shadows, but we''re exposed. We don''t even know how to contact him,
what can we do?" Nicole asked.
"Exactly! He''s a ticking time bomb, we don’t know when he will appear. If Daddy or Bryan sees him,
all our efforts these past few years will go down the drain.
Mom, we can''t wait for him toe to us, we have to take the initiative!" Chloe announced.
Nicole was aware of this too, cold sweat trickling down her spine, "I told your father I was a
widower."
"I don''t want people to know my biological father is an ex-convict too!
We have to think of a way!" Chloe paced around the room endlessly.
"But I''m so lost now, we can''t kill him when hees, can we?" Nicole buried her face in her hands
and started sobbing. "Why is my life so miserable? Why can''t I get rid of him!
Chloe, why not give him some money first, to satisfy him for a while. After you marry into the
Dawson family, then we can make a long-term n!” Nicole said.
Chloe frowned, "We don''t have much money to give him. He will put the bite on me and ask for a
huge amount!”
"I have some jewelry; we can sell it for some emergency cash.”
"Mom, they''re your favorite items! We can’t give them all to him, he doesn''t deserve any of it!"
Nicole''s heart ached at the thought too, sighing helplessly, "Then what else can we do? Even
though w e don''t have to worry about the roof above our heads o r the clothes on our back, your
father has always been careful with his money, this is all I have."
Chloe released her clenched fists and said helplessly," Alright, that''s all we can do now..."
Anna was fast asleep when her phone rang.
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She nced at the clock, it was midnight, why did Liam call her?
"Come here now!"
"I''m sleeping."
"You can sleep here." "It''ste, if I leave the house sote at night, my family will be suspicious."
"The agreement states that you are on call 24 hours."
Anna buried her head into her pillows, "Do you have to torture me like this?"
"You can choose not toe; I''ll get Miller to pick you up."
"No! I''ll go by myself."
If Miller came to pick her up and her family knew she was meeting Liam in the middle of the night,
all hell would break loose.
"So you’lle by yourself?"
"I''ll drive there, Mr. Ackman!" Anna hung up the phone then forced her tired body into the bathroom
to brush her teeth and change.
When she walked out of the door, she came to a startling realization. When did she start obeying
Liam so well?
Even though she felt disgruntled, her lips still curled u p into a tiny smile.
"Lisa, if my father asks where I am, tell him I went to the hospital to apany Nina."
Anna collected the car from the garage and drove out o f the door slowly.
She didn''t notice Liam was parked in the near distance, watching her car, and following behind at a
suitable distance.
Liam looked at her car driving along in front of him and his lips curled into a smile.
"It''s nice to have someone leading the way."
He was in a good mood, driving along behind her when he suddenly realized another car followed
her closely behind. The smile froze on his face.
"That man, is he stalking me, or Anna?" He muttered lowly.