Chapter 1980 An Elaborate Scheme
Davin muttered, “Janice?”
He recalled Sheila bringing up this name last night. Janice had picked on Maya in the hospital, prompting Sheila to prepare a little payback for Janice.
Davin demanded, “What did Janice tell you to do? I’ll break your legs if you omit a single detail!” Noah hemmed and hawed, still thinking of ways to weasel his way out of the situation.
The burly man he had seen earlier suddenly entered the room with a pair of scissors. He stopped in front of Noah and made a deliberate snipping motion.
The man said, “Mr. Davin, remember how we were planning to reward your hounds with some boiled chicken this afternoon? I’m sure they wouldn’t mind a slight modification to the menu!”
“Great idea! I’m sure the hounds would love it!” Davin had barely finished his sentence when the burly man angled the scissors in his hand, snipping at the air dangerously close to Noah’s groin.
He broke out into a cold sweat as the burly man taunted, “Are you talking, or shall I get snipping?”
There was nothing left for Noah to do but agree. “I-I’ll talk! I’ll talk, okay? Do you promise to let me go if I do?”
Davin turned to Maya and awaited her decision. She stated, “That depends on your information. I’ll let you go if I find your intel satisfactory.” “Okay, I’ll tell you everything.”
Noah began explaining Janice’s plot in detail. After forcefully bedding her, he was supposed to feed her some medication that induced memory loss. After that, he would bring Maya to the beach and stage her attempted suicide.
He would then swoop in to save Maya and earn her eternal gratitude. Next, he would care for the amnesiac Maya until she fell in love with him. That was when he would reunite Maya with the Seet family.
The Seets would undoubtedly label him as Maya’s savior and approve of their relationship, and Noah would successfully become the live-in son-in-law of the wealthy Seet family.
Maya was amazed that Janice’s ruthlessness seemed to know no end.
She muttered, “That’s why you scoffed at my ten-million offer. You were banking on marrying into the Seet family, weren’t you?”
Noah confessed, “Yes. If the plan succeeded, I would be the one calling ten million spare change.”
Davin scorned his outlandish ambition and spat, “Nonsense! You’d believe Janice’s words?”
Noah retorted, “Janice doesn’t want Maya and Wilbur to be together, and she’s giving me the chance to marry into a rich family. Why wouldn’t I trust her?”
“You’re too naive.” Davin elaborated, “Once you’ve fed Maya the amnesia-inducing medication and led her to the beach, Janice won’t give you a chance to save Maya after you’ve shoved her into the sea!”
Noah’s expression darkened as he asked, “Are you saying Janice plans to kill her?”
Davin replied grimly, “She probably wants to kill Maya and you. That way, both Maya and her killer will be gone, and she’ll never be exposed as the mastermind of this ploy.”
His explanation struck Noah silent.
After some thought, Noah argued weakly, “N-No. She wouldn’t do that. My mom is cousins with Janice’s mom, and Janice and I are as good as siblings. She’d never do something like that to me.”
He was, however, starting to have second doubts about Janice’s true motives.
Maya, who had been silent all this time, suddenly piped up, “If you don’t believe us, we can do a little experiment to reveal Janice’s motives.”
“How?”
She fell into thoughtful silence before lifting her head to meet her uncle’s gaze. Davin gave her an encouraging nod and smiled, tipping her off that they had thought of the same idea and that he agreed with her plans.
Her confidence bolstered, Maya then shared her plans with Noah.
He pondered her proposal and uttered, “All right. I’m in, but I have a condition.”
“What condition?”
Noah begged, “If Janice never meant to kill me or Ms. Maya, then please, I beseech you to spare her life.”
“What if the opposite is true?”
He stammered in reply, “T-Then you can do whatever you wish with her. I won’t utter a word of protest, and I guarantee that I’ll step forward and provide evidence of Janice’s scheme against Maya.”
“Deal!” Davin agreed with a snap of his fingers.
