Chapter 174
Upon hearing his words, Annie felt as if the blood in her body was frozen. She turned around stiffly.
Seemingly she had lost her tongue, she couldn’t utter a beep.
Right then, they heard Joanna’s voice from the stairs, “It was an incident that happened three years
ago. What’s the meaning to mention it now?”
Annie nodded her head desperately.
rence cast a nce at Joanna, curling up his lips into a sneer, “I always believe an eye for an eye.
Let alone three years ago, even it happened thirty years ago, I’ll get even with the person one after
another.”
Joanna asked, “Do you have any evidence?”
rence smiled ironically. After a few seconds, he said, “All right.”
He turned around and ordered his men, “From now on, if Annie Conrad steps out of the Conrads’
Mansion, no matter where she’s going, you can break her legs without telling me.”
Annie widened her eyes in disbelief. She tried to struggle for the veryst time, “Aunt Joanna, please...”
rence looked back at Joanna, “I’ll go find the evidence for you. I won’t let go of anyone involved.”
Joanna’s expression didn’t change, but she gradually tightened her hands on the handrail on the stairs.
rence withdrew his gaze and strode away.
When his figure disappeared, Dempsey paced the floor with the walking stick and sat down on the
sofa. He said solemnly, “Annie, tell me honestly. What on earth happened?”
...
In the ck Rolls-Royce.
Nathan asked, “Mr. Conrad, it has been three years. Mrs. Joanna has already cleaned up the evidence.
Probably we can’t find anything...”
rence wasn’t surprised. He said, “If you can’t find the evidence three years ago, find thetest one.”
“Mr. Conrad, do you mean the car ident that happened to Mrs. Conrad?”
From the beginning to the end, all of them could guess that it was Joanna who set Ste up, but the
trouble was that they couldn’t find any actual evidence.
rence said, “Joanna’s men shouldn’t have all died. Keep on looking into the matter.”
“Yes, Mr. Conrad.”
After a while, rence added, “Keep an eye on Annie Conrad. Probably the breakthrough to bring
down Joanna is on her.”
Nathan tentatively asked, “If Miss Conrad steps out of the Conrads’ Mansion, shall we truly...”
“Did I look as if I was kidding?”
Nathan immediately said seriously, “Okay, Mr. Conrad.”
rence pressed the window down. He asked irritably, “Has Emmett Carter always been with Ste
recently?”
“Well... I can look into this matter now.”
“Not necessary,” said rence, “Go to her studio.”
Nathan was speechless.
He coughed and reminded him, “But, Mr. Conrad, the studio should be closed now.”
rence frowned, “Go to her apartment then.”
“If we just go there like this, Mrs. Conrad will be pissed...”
rence looked quite annoyed, “What should I do then?”
Nathan thought for a moment and an idea enlightened him, “We can take the chance and ask if Mrs.
Conrad has finished designing our jewelry.”
“She’ll be pissed more if we push her.”
Hence, this excuse wouldn’t work either.
Nathan thought for a moment and said, “Mr. Conrad, would you like to meet Mrs. Conrad right now?”
rence looked up at him expressionlessly.
Nathan retreated for the sake of advancing, “I meant it’s sote now, and probably Mrs. Conrad has
gone to bed. Why don’t we find a better excuse tomorrow...”
rence didn’t answer.
When Nathan thought that he finally could breathe a sigh of relief, rence said, “Give me your
phone.”
On the other side.
As soon as Ste finished her design draft, she noticed that her cell phone screen was blinking.
On the screen was an unknown number.
She moved her neck, stood up, and swiped to answer the call on the balcony for some fresh air.
“Hello, who is that please?”
“It’s me.”
She kept silent for a moment.
Trying her best to suppress her thought of hanging up the phone directly, she yed dumb, “I’m sorry
but you must have dialed the wrong number. I don’t know you...”
“Ste, I dare you to hang in up.”
Ste grinned her teeth, “Oh, it’s you, Mr. Conrad. I don’t think you have this number.”
rence said, “You blocked my number. If I don’t change a number to call you, would you have
answered the call?”
“I see.”
She decided to block this numberter as well.
Ste paused. Since the wretched man didn’t speak, she asked, “Mr. Conrad, what’s the matter?”
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On the other end of the line, rence asked unhappily, “Can’t I call you without any matter?”
Ste choked up.
That was a brilliant question.
She wondered why the wretched man was so confident to order her to do something and who he
thought he was to ask her to do things obediently.
Ste inhaled to calm herself down. She said, “I’m pretty busy. Mr. Conrad, if you don’t have anything,
I’ll...”
rence asked, “Has Annie gone to find you today?”
“Yes, she has. I also pped her across her face. Mr. Conrad, are you ming me for that?”
rence directly ignored her sarcasm and said indifferently, “She’ll never be able to show up in front of
you from now on.”
Upon hearing it, Ste was startled. She asked tentatively, “Is she still alive?”
“Do you want her alive?”
Ste suddenly realized that rence sounded expressionless when speaking. He didn’t answer her a
question and nor did he sound kidding.
After a while, she said calmly, “I just hope that she could get the consequences of the things that she
has done.”
rence said, “She will.”
Looking in distance, Ste didn’t speak anymore.
After a few seconds, rence asked again, “Do you have any other things to talk about?”
Ste was speechless.
He asked so naturally as if she was calling him to harass him.
When she was about to speak, rence added, “Leave Emmett Carter alone.”
He sounded like giving her amand. Ste immediately refused, “Why? I won’t.”
rence was silent.
His tone became gentler, “Why not?”
“Why should I leave him alone?”
“I don’t like it.”
“I see. That’s your problem, then. It has nothing to do with me.”
After finishing her words, Ste directly hung up the phone without waiting for his response.
She wondered what was wrong with the wretched man.
In the ck Rolls-Royce, Nathan could feel the temperature dropping in the carpartment. He
reached out tentatively several times, trying to get his phone back, but his hand paused in mid-air. The
desire to survive deterred him.
If not mistaken, he guessed that Mrs. Conrad would block this phone number as well.
However, as a qualified and excellent assistant, he had more than two or three cell phones.
rence tossed the cell phone back to him with a cold face, “Go home.”
Nathan said, “Okay, Mr. Conrad.”
Starry Lake Mansion.
rence turned on the light in the living room, which was quiet.
He realized that the ungrateful woman didn’t leave any belongings here.
Back to his room, rence walked into the cloakroom. He loosened his necktie when catching a
glimpse of the dresses and essories that had never been touched.
A few secondster, the man curled up his lips.