Chapter 376 Investigation
As Hayley lay on the bed, her mind was being tortured with every passing second. She imagined how Anastasia was probably inseparable from Elliot right now, and perhaps by the time she rushed back, an engagement would already be in the talks.
Hayley counted down the days as she suffered terribly.
Back at home, there had been multiple ownership changes at Abyss Club, and tonight, Rey asked for a meeting with its current owner. When the owner heard that he would be paid two million in exchange for the CCTV recordings from five years ago, he was stunned. “The recordings from five years back have disappeared a long time ago, though.”
“Why is that so?” Rey asked.
“Just a few months ago, there was a fire at my storehouse, and suddenly all the data stored in the server room were burned to ashes,” said the owner. He was also perplexed as he continued, “It seemed like some sort of circuit problem.”
“Have you reported it to the police?”
“The firemen did come over to put out the fire. I didn’t lose much except for those data, so if you’re looking for recordings from five years ago, they’re definitely gone.”
Suspicion flashed across the depths of Rey’s eyes. There were too many coincidences; why was the server room the only place to catch fire?
It hadn’t been too long since this new owner took over the place, so he definitely knew nothing about the incidents that happened five years ago.
Then, Rey found the manager and gave her a hundred thousand, asking her to make a list of all the veteran employees who had worked at the club for more than five years.
The manager soon found more than ten people who matched the requirements, but she had only worked here for three years, so when Rey asked her about the server room, the manager immediately said, “We rarely go there, and the security team is in charge of guarding it.”
The manager circled a few names. “These are the security guards who have worked here the longest. All of them have been working here for more than five years.”
Rey also got a list of the employees who quit after the fire. The manager saw that he was handsome and generous with money, so she gave him all the information he needed.
In the end, Rey locked onto a target—it was a security guard who had quit after the fire.
He quit only three days after the fire happened, so Rey suspected that someone had bribed him to set the place on fire before he quit his job. Hence, Rey believed that he’d be able to get some information from the guard.
This involved Anastasia’s incident from five years ago. Rey was the only person Elliot sent to investigate this in secret, and even his bodyguards were kept out of this investigation.
Back at the Tillman Residence, Erica was so excited that she couldn’t sleep since she had been spending money for the past two days. In fact, she had nearly used up all of the one million Elliot had given her.
She never thought that the information on Anastasia would be so valuable and that she could get a million just by saying a few sentences about that woman.
However, she had no idea how important those few sentences were to Elliot.
Erica’s thoughts went to one important task; she had to hold a discussion with Hayley so that they would tell the same story! If Elliot interrogated Hayley about it someday, and Hayley’s version of the story was different from hers, Elliot would find out that she lied.
Erica feared the consequences, so she hastily picked up her phone. Disregarding the fact that it was already way past midnight, she sent Hayley a message that read, ‘Hayley, are you there?’
‘Yes, I am!’ Unexpectedly, Hayley’s reply came quickly.
‘Let’s video call.’
‘I can’t do that at the moment, so let’s just have a voice call.’ Hayley declined the invitation.
After the call went through, Erica blurted out the news about Elliot asking her for information. However, she decided to keep the one million a secret.
“What? You told him it was at the Abyss Club?” Hayley was obviously furious on the other end of the line.
“He wanted me to tell the truth, so what else could I do? I can’t offend him, you know!” Erica said helplessly.
“If he finds out that we’re behind all this, we’ll be done for. If he knows that we plotted against Anastasia together, do you think he’ll let us off the hook?” Hayley shouted in anger.
“Even if he doesn’t investigate the matter, Anastasia might tell him that we were the ones who did it!” Erica said.
“Don’t forget that Anastasia has a son with that host. If news of this gets out, it would put her son at a disadvantage, so she would never tell Elliot the truth. Why else do you think we managed to stay safe until today?”
Upon hearing that, Erica was instantly elated. “This means that Anastasia will keep this a secret forever, then! We’ll be alright!”
“Elliot went to you for information exactly because Anastasia refused to say anything about it. Now that you’ve mentioned the Abyss Club, he will definitely start investigating that place. Erica, can you not cause so much trouble for both of us?” Hayley said angrily.
