Chapter 2027 Blackmail
Taking a deep breath, Davin knocked on the bathroom door. “Wait a moment!” A sonorous male voice rang out. This voice sounds familiar, but it doesn’t sound like Patrick. Instead, it sounds like…
After musing for a while, Davin’s heart skipped a beat. This voice belongs to… to…. Oh my God, tell me it’s not true! He lifted his hand and again hammered on the bathroom door. “Darling, are you planning on scrubbing my back?”
Davin was instantly struck speechless as it hit him like a bucket of icy water. That wasn’t his father-in-law’s voice but that of his father, Jonathan!
The bathroom door swung open, and Jonathan strode out in a robe. The instant he caught sight of Davin, his expression darkened indescribably.
“Why are you here?”
Jonathan and Davin were equally baffled and surprised to see each other there.
“D-Don’t ask me that! W-What are you doing here?” The latter turned a tad incoherent.
Jonathan went silent, glancing at his son with a grim expression on his face.
“You have no right to interfere in my affairs!”
“I…. I’m asking on behalf of Mom!”
At Davin’s remark, Jonathan was left without a retort.
Just then, Sheila came over in huge strides, initially all geared up to haul her disloyal father over the coals on behalf of her mother. However, shock inundated her at the sight of her father-in-law.
“H-How did it turn out to be you?”
All at once, time came to a standstill as awkwardness hung thickly in the air.
“Get out!” Jonathan bellowed at them both.
Snapping back to her senses, Sheila nodded like a bobblehead doll. Then, she hurried out while dragging Davin along. Countless questions flashed across her mind. We came here to look for my father, so how did it turn into my father-in-law instead?
While Davin was dragged out, he promptly went through the turn of events in his mind.
That woman back at the research lab must have been ordered by Patrick to utter such a remark to Sheila. This must have been a plan of his. It looks like he has long since known about the affair between my father and this woman. But why did he deliberately have us learn about it?
After leaving the room, he seemingly thought of something, for his eyes lit up.
To blackmail us? Don’t tell me he wants to blackmail me with this so I’d lend him that two billion?
While he was still in a daze, his phone rang.
The caller ID indicated it was a call from none other than Old Mr. Muir.
Davin answered the call.
“Where are you, Davin?”
“You should know the answer to that better than anyone else!”
“Have you and Sheila both seen it? Your mother is so capable, yet your father is having an affair behind her back. Say, will your family be in shambles if she were to learn about this? Your father’s reputation will likely be ruined beyond recognition.”
Fury blazed within Davin. “What exactly are you trying to say, Dad? Get to the point, please!”
“Davin, you’re a smart man. You keep insisting that you can’t make an arbitrary decision to loan me the two billion and have to discuss it with your brother. I’m afraid he might decline, so I purposely gave you a bargaining chip. Go back and tell your brother that your family will likely make the headlines if he doesn’t lend me the money.”
Davin said nothing, his blood boiling.
Sheila took the phone from him and asked, “Dad, what exactly is the meaning of this?”
“Sheila, I’ve known about your father-in-law’s infidelity long ago. However, I’ve always considered our family’s relationship with that of the Seet family, so I did my best to suppress this matter and keep the media from having a field day. But now, I’m really in urgent need of that two billion. Go with Davin and discuss it nicely with Evan. I won’t blame you both if he refuses to loan me the money, but I’m afraid that this news will no longer be under wraps. At that time, the Seet family will undoubtedly be on the trending list. Not only will your parents-in-law’s marriage be on shaky ground, but it’ll also affect your father-in-law’s reputation.”
Sheila couldn’t quite believe her ears. She found her father, who was currently threatening them and the Seet family, to be very much a stranger to her, exceedingly terrifying.
