Chapter 76: This is Murder


    “I don’t think so.” Hayden gaped at the inte celebrity’s face and said, “Ms. Harriet, what do you think


    we have forgotten about?”


    “You are really nning to shove it to the back of your mind?” The inte celebrity immediately came


    back to her senses as she pointed at Hayden’s face andunched into a parade, “You are too


    shameless. Are you nning to leave that incident fromst night as it is?”


    A crowd soon gathered around them in the lobby.


    Hayden didn’t beat around the bushes as she said directly, “Ms. Harriet, you told us that there were


    cockroaches in your roomst night, and we had resolved that problem for you the moment we learnt of


    it. We gave you a change of room and promised you that if your im was true, the hotel would


    definitelypensate you. However, we are of the opinion that those cockroaches have nothing to do


    with the hotel.”


    Upon hearing that, the inte celebrity was so enraged that her face waspletely flushed with


    colours, “I have seen many people who are shameless, but the ST Hotel is really one of a kind. Are you


    trying to bully me just with your prestige and reputation? Just wait and see, I am going to call the


    Bureau of Commerce and the Health Department now.”


    “You can go ahead.” Hayden replied with an unwavering expression on her face.


    “The cockroaches that had appeared in your room had been taken by me to the medical university for


    examination. Based on the result, it has been five days since those cockroaches were dead. Their


    bodies werepletely dried up, yet you told us you had killed them by swatting them on the carpet


    half an hour after you checked in. I think there is something wrong with that.”


    When Hayden finished her sentence, sounds of gasping broke out all around them.


    What she had described was same as throwing in an insect into the tes after finishing a meal in a


    restaurant in order to defame them.


    This inte celebrity was here to extort ransom money out of the hotel.


    When the onlookers all criticized the inte celebrity for her antics, she couldn’t find any words to


    respond. She could only flee the scene with her head lowered.


    As this matter died down, everyone in the hotel held high praises towards Hayden.


    This was especially true for Jeff. He waspletely won over by Hayden because of those two


    cockroaches.


    “Ms. Downey, I never imagined you taking those scary creatures and have them analysed. It took me


    half of my life force just to seal them in a stic bag.”


    “That means you need to umte more experience. Now, we need to resolve the matter about the


    badments directed at the hotel.”


    Hayden patted Jeff’s shoulders casually before marching into her office. After shutting the door behind


    her, she leaned on the door while letting out a sigh of relief.


    In reality, because of those damned cockroaches, she had been so disgusted that she couldn’t even


    swallow a sip of water. She fared even worse than Jeff in this department. She was just trying to keep


    her face in front of her employees.


    In theing week, the badments incident surrounding the hotel still couldn’t be resolved.


    Hayden had personally inspected every room in the hotel and made sure that there was nothing faulty


    about anything. As she returned to her office with her head besieged by confusion, she took a look at


    the business volume she had achieved up to that point, which was still a far cry from the bet she had


    taken a while ago. Seeing that things were getting worse, she couldn’t help sighing profusely.


    There must be something wrong with the hotel. Had the ST Hotel offended any party? Was someone


    setting this up to tarnish the name of the hotel?


    A few minutes before getting off work, Hayden received a call by his father. They were to meet in a café


    nearby thepany.


    When she reached, Bentley was already there, and he was looking a little anxious.


    “I have ordered some hot milk for you. It’s not good to consume too much coffee at night since your


    sleep quality will be affected. If you don’t like this, you can order something else.”


    Hayden shook her head, “It’s alright, anything is fine.”


    Bentley revealed a relieved smile, “Hayden, I am really surprised but d that you have called me.”


    Hayden was looking at her cup of hot milk as she stirred the contents for some time. She didn’t dare to


    look at her father in her eyes, and after some deliberation, she began, “Dad, the reason I have asked


    you to meet up is to ask a favour from you.”


    “What can I help you with? Just say it.”


    Hayden rarely asked for anything from him, so when he heard that she was asking him a favour, he


    was actually contented.


    “Six years ago, when I had my eighteen-year-old birthday, you have promised to give me a house. Do


    you remember that? Is this promise still valid even until now?”


    Lately, although she was overwhelmed by work in thepany, she still wanted to move from Joseph’s


    house because she still held the thought that it wasn’t the most appropriate thing for her and Ste to


    continue staying in his house. After contemting about it for some time, she found no other solution


    other than the promise made by his father all those years before.


    “Of course the promise still holds.” Bentley raised his brows slightly, and he looked apparently joyous,


    “The property document has your name there, so that house is yours anyway.”


    “Then, thank you so much, dad.” Hayden was a little nervous. Despite her efforts to sound more


    familiar, her tone still exuded a sense of distance in between them, a tone which wasn’t used by people


    when talking to their parents.


    “I didn’t take away the key when I leftst time. When are you at home? Can I go there and take it?”


    “Do you still need to ask whether I am at home while you areing back to your own home? You can


    come anytime, but let me know before youe so that I can inform your aunt to prepare a meal for


    you. We can eat together as a family.”


    “You don’t need to do that, dad.”


    “It’s no trouble at all.” Bentley sounded oddly persistent, and after pausing briefly, he added, “You can


    bring your daughter home too, seeing that she is my grandchild anyway. I want to see her, and I’m sure


    the others want to see her too.”


    At the mention of Ste, Hayden pursed her lips and rejected his suggestion, “I don’t think I will do that.


    That child is still very young, she won’t be able to withstand all the gossips going around there. I will


    bring her back to see you when she is a little older.”


    Bentley knitted his brows and he looked like he wanted to insist further, but in the end, he decided to


    leave it at this with a sigh.


    After he left the café, Bentley got into his car and all of a sudden, he was attacked by a fit of coughing.


    He covered his mouth with a handkerchief and coughed for some time. When he removed it from his


    mouth, he saw traces of blood on the handkerchief.


    “Sir, are you alright?” The driver nced at him through the rear-view mirror and asked worriedly.


    Bentley waved his hand while clutching his handkerchief hard, “I’m alright, it’s just the usual stuff. Let’s


    go.”


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    In Shanghai, Joseph was only able to return to his room after he was done negotiating a business deal


    until almost midnight. He leaned against a sofa and stared at his dinner which was delivered by the


    hotel, but he suddenly thought of those dishes that Hayden had made.


    “Mr. Beckham, the man we have sent to GX Town just gave me a call.”


    Magnus carried a tray of fruits and ced it on the tea table before continuing with a difficult


    expression, “He said that Caesar is dead.”


    Joseph furrowed his brows, “What has happened?”


    “It was a fire. On the night before our man arrived at the scene, the whole ce had burnt down without


    anything standing. Caesar had turned into a set of bones.”


    As he recalled this incident, Magnus let out a sigh, “Manfred has sent me some photos taken of the


    scene, and I can see that not only Caesar’s house had been burnt down, his neighbours’ houses were


    all burnt down too. His neighbours were not in, that was why the burning houses were only discovered


    by someone when it was almost dawn. When the fire engines arrived to put out the fire, everything had


    been burnt to nothingness.”


    The creases on Joseph’s forehead deepened, “Such coincidence?”


    At this timing when he had just sent someone to investigate that surrogacy incident, Caesar had met


    with his demise. Was there such coincidence in this world?


    “Do you think this is the doing of somebody?” Magnus’ face became tense, “It can’t be. This is murder.”


    “Haven’t you heard of murder cases prior to this?”


    Joseph shot a nce at him while adding, “The truth behind this matter must still be in the dark. When


    we are done with our business in Shanghai, go there personally and investigate everything about that


    fire.”


    On one hand, that incident about surrogacy was something only Caesar had known about, so he had to


    go interrogate him. On the other hand, Caesar was a long-serving butler of the Beckham family. He had


    been by Joseph’s grandfather’s side for many years. If there was a hidden truth here, Joseph had the


    duty to shed light on it.


    “Roger.”


    “And one more thing, don’t let grandfather learn of Caesar’s death.”


    “Understood.”


    Joseph nodded while a thought suddenly struck him, “How has the matter about Freddie turned


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