The woman trembled in fear, but she didn’t dare to cry anymore and was quick to reply, “T-Three hundred thousand.”
Shane scoffed upon hearing that and mocked, “Three hundred thousand was all it took to get you to drug someone on her behalf? How cheap. Have you ever considered the possibility that not only might you never receive that money, but you could also get killed?”
The woman gasped after hearing that. Scared mindless, she asked, “M-Mr. Shane, are you going to kill me?”
“You schemed against me. Do you really think that I’d let you go?”
The woman trembled as she insisted, “Mr. Shane, it wasn’t my doing. Ms. Graham was the one who drugged you. All I did was show up and let slip that I was the culprit while trying to take you to the lounge. She hired me to do that so that you wouldn’t suspect her of being the mastermind. In truth, she is the one behind everything. I had nothing to do with it, Mr. Shane!”
“Although you did not drug me, what you did could’ve destroyed my family! That is why I will not show you any mercy,” roared Shane before he turned and left.
Scared out of her wits, the woman sat there in a daze as tears rolled down her cheeks.
At that moment, she truly regretted her decision. Why did I let myself get blinded by the money? How did I forget that the target is the CEO of Thompson Group?
He is known as Lucifer among the tycoons in J City, and being caught meant either death or torture. Why the f*ck did I trust Jacqueline when she said that I could get out of it in one piece?
She even promised that she would save me on the off chance that Mr. Shane captures me. Yet, she is nowhere to be seen.
The thought of that made the woman laugh and cry simultaneously at the thought of her future. She knew that everything would be bleak from then on.
Meanwhile, Shane walked out of the room that the woman was in and went straight to the elevator.
Silas followed closely behind and asked, “How should we deal with that woman, Mr. Shane?”
“Have you figured out who she is?” asked Shane.
Silas nodded and replied, “Yes. She is an escort who is quite famous in her field. Some time ago, the Potters got into a heated battle because of her.”
“Really?” said Shane with his brows raised. “What happened?”
Silas pressed the elevator button and answered, “That woman used to be Mr. Potter’s mistress. She faked her pregnancy and went to his house to make a scene. Mrs. Potter got so upset that she almost jumped from a building to commit suicide. Even then, Mr. Potter sided with that woman. In the end, Mrs. Potter’s parents showed up and forced Mr. Potter to resolve the matter.”
Shane’s narrowed eyes gleamed with disgust. He said, “Looks like this woman is vile in nature. In that case, send her off to a third-world country and let Mrs. Potter know about it.”
“Understood,” replied Silas while pushing his glasses up and nodding.
A third-world country is the last place you’d want to live in as wars break out there all the time.
That woman’s destiny is sealed once she gets there. She’d either get infected with some disease in the wild or get killed by the natives.
I guess she had it coming, though. That is what one gets for crossing Mr. Shane.
The woman’s fate was decided then and there.
By then, Shane had arrived outside the room where Jacqueline was locked in, which was the lounge he was in yesterday.
Shane shot a look at Silas, who then stepped forward and got a card out to open the door.
As he did so, the lights inside the room turned on.
When Shane walked in, he saw that a pale-looking Jacqueline who was sitting on the bed.
In the past, he would’ve been worried and asked her what had happened upon seeing her in that state.
At that moment, however, he acted like he didn’t notice how terrible she looked.
Shane walked into the room and stood in front of Jacqueline before saying, “I used to think that you are a kind and innocent woman.”
Hearing those words got Jacqueline to grin in a self-mocking way and reply, “So are you disappointed in me now, Shane?”
Shane pursed his lips. “No. Your lack of innocence is not the reason I’m disappointed.”
Hearing that prompted Jacqueline to look at him in puzzlement. It seemed like she had no idea what he was talking about.
Shane stared at her calmly while he explained, “It is rare to see someone remain kind and innocent when living in an environment like ours. However, being selfish and scheming isn’t necessarily a bad thing because it’s how we protect ourselves in order to survive.”
