Chapter 25
Chapter 25
“Okay.” Nobody knew whether Ethan really wanted to look for Tanner or if he had other ideas in his mind, but he actually agreed to Caleb’s suggestion.
At the same time, Alice was indeed in Room 1909, but she wasn’t alone. Together with her was Archie and an adorable little boy, who had delicate, cute features and a pair of brilliant, dark eyes.
His name was Apollo Woland.
Seven years ago, on her eighteenth birthday, Alice was set up by someone. That time, she was in a state of confusion and couldn’t remember much. All she remembered was when she woke up the next day, she found herself in a strange room, aching all over her body. Back then, a man was sound asleep next to her, but the room was too dark for her to recognize his face, and neither did she have the guts to take a good look at him because she had no idea what exactly had happened.
Despite that, she knew that someone had set her up, and she was afraid that she would see a scene that she couldn’t accept. Also, she was worried that the person who set her up would catch her ‘red- handed’, so she slipped off after putting on her clothes quietly.
When she returned home, she ran into Travis, who had been looking for her frantically, and he was the one who took care of everything that happened afterward for her.
Travis seemed to be very solemn and in a dilemma at that time, and it happened to be their grandfather’s birthday that day. So, he told her that he would fill her in on the details after celebrating Charles’ birthday.
However, nobody would expect them to be involved in a car accident on the way to their grandfather’s place, and Travis had been unconscious since then.
Hence, she still didn’t know much about what happened that night seven years ago, when her parents died in that car accident, and Travis ended up in a coma. After that, she was so occupied that she had no time to care about what had happened that night. When she had taken care of everything, four months had already passed.
It was that time when she discovered that she was pregnant, and at the thought that a life had been in her body for four months long, she really couldn’t bring herself to abort the baby.
And she was grateful that she had given birth to him, although she still didn’t know who Apollo’s father was.
Nevertheless, that didn’t matter because this was her son.
She looked at Apollo with tenderness in her eyes; her boy was handsome, witty, intelligent, sensible, and loved her dearly.
Right now, she didn’t know that someone was heading toward Room 1909 to retrieve her fingerprints, and neither did she know that Apollo’s identity was in danger of exposure!
“The first step of our plan is a success.”
In Room 1909, Archie glanced at the calm Alice. The plans for the wedding earlier went very smoothly, and the results exceeded their expectations.
He was so filled with glee and excitement that he couldn’t remain as composed as her. “When are we starting step two of the plan?”
“Soon…” Alice shifted her gaze away from Apollo, and her eyes slowly turned stone cold.
With the death of her parents and her brother, who was still in a coma to this day, she would definitely settle the score one by one. Nevertheless, she wouldn’t be so dumb as to act rashly by fighting fire with
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After seven years of preparation, she returned to find evidence that Thomas and Elijah killed her parents back then.
She wanted to use the most conventional and transparent method to seek justice for her parents!
What happened today were the seeds Thomas had sown, and she was merely bringing justice for those eleven lost lives.
As for those children, they really were Thomas’ own children. He had been keeping several mistresses in secret abroad, and most of them were fooled by him. Initially, Alice simply wanted Naomi to find out that Thomas was having mistresses abroad to cause chaos in the Yeager household. Still, those women were so infuriated that they brought their children to the wedding to cause a scene.
Nonetheless, the plan after this was more crucial and important than ever.
“It will be too easy on Bruce Yeager to transfer the Woland Group under his name.” However, Archie was still slightly reluctant to agree to her scheme regarding this matter.
Everyone from the Yeager Family made him sick. But, even if he knew of Alice’s plan, he still thought it was too easy on Bruce to have the Woland Group transferred under his name—although it was only temporary—and he couldn’t wait to crush Bruce under his feet.
Apollo smirked. “Mr. Moreno, be a kind and honest person. Mom had dug no less than twenty ‘holes’ and buried at least ten ‘landmines’ in the Woland Group. Even if the holes don’t bury him alive, he would be ‘blown’ to pieces. How is this easy on him?” Seated across from Archie, Apollo was a lot shorter than him, but his miniature stature couldn’t hide the brilliance in his eyes!
“Well, it was just a thought.” At the thought of the traps Alice had planted in the Woland Group, Archie couldn’t help but chuckle.
Indeed, Bruce wouldn’t benefit from this, which was also the case for Thomas. When the time came, they would only end up worse!
On the other hand, Alice didn’t join in on their conversation as her eyes dimmed slightly. If it was only to crush the Yeager Family, she really didn’t have to go through so much hassle, but she aimed to find solid evidence that they killed her parents seven years ago.
Thomas was too cunning, and she couldn’t find any helpful evidence despite trying for seven years.
Hence, she used Woland Group as the bait, but of course, she had already made all the preparations when she made the decision to throw the company out as bait.
She wanted to force them to reveal their tracks step by step.
“By the way, the Knight Family would like to hire you… Hmm, putting it more accurately, it’s Tanner West that they want to hire. Mr. Lawrence wanted Ethan Knight to take care of this personally. Do you want to meet him if he comes looking for you?” The Morenos and the Knights had always been on good terms, so Archie knew this matter very well.
The public didn’t know that Alice and Tanner were the same people, and the Knights knew nothing of this, too. So, the one the Knights wanted to hire was also Tanner.
“No.” Now, Alice only wanted to find the evidence of those people that killed her parents and not spread herself too thin.
Just then, someone knocked on their door suddenly.
Liam, who was here to retrieve Alice’s fingerprints, was standing outside Room 1909 now, and he was knocking on the door. At the same time, the elevator Ethan was in had stopped on the 19th floor!
When Archie heard the knock, his eyes slightly narrowed at it. “Who could it be at this time? Elijah Woland?”
A sneer appeared on Alice’s face. The Yeagers were in a fix, and the wedding didn’t happen; she pretty much expected that Elijah would come looking for her at this time, but the speed at which he did so surprised her.
Therefore, when she saw Liam standing at the door the moment she swung the door open, she was briefly startled. Nonetheless, she had an excellent memory and usually would remember the faces she had seen.
She remembered this person. More precisely, she had seen this person seven years ago.
On that night seven years ago, when she slipped out of the Imperial Hotel, the elevator she was in stopped on the first floor, and this man was waiting outside the elevator.
At that time, he had said, ‘stop them’ upon seeing her.
Obviously, he was working for the man who had slept with her that night.
But why did he suddenly appear here? She wondered. From the looks of it, he doesn’t look like he’s at the wrong door. So, he’s probably here to look for me. Did that man from seven years ago find me?
Right then, she could feel her heart skipping a beat due to panic.