Chapter 702 He Loved You
Charles raised his head. “But people are selfish, aren’t they? What could I do? He’s my biological father. Was I supposed to report him?
“Turning against your own family is considered noble because it goes against human instinct. But I’m no saint. I couldn’t do it.”
Emelie was starting to lose her composure. She couldn’t help it.
What he had said was just too shameless!
“So, you chose to go along with him, to help your father destroy the evidence and cause the deaths of my adoptive parents!”
“I told you, people are selfish. If I hadn’t found the account book and continued down the wrong path, the ones facing imprisonment and bankruptcy would have been the Davis family and my father. I was just protecting myself.”
Charles found it ironic. “When the Pierce family fell, I was only three years old, but from that moment on, I was destined to be an accomplice. My entire life, I could only continue making mistakes.”
It was almost comical to hear him claim he was only protecting himself.
It was almost laughable to hear him say he could only keep making mistakes.
Emelie laughed. “You’re shameless. You warm yourself with the blood of others. You’re vicious, plain and simple. Don’t pretend you were forced into this. It’s disgusting to hear!”
“Disgusting, did you say?” Charles lowered his head. “I think so too.”
He suddenly understood why criminals on the run for years often said that when they were finally caught, it was like a weight was lifted off their chest, and they could finally sleep well again.
Sure, some might be trying to save face by saying that, but there was probably some truth to it too.
At least, that was how he felt.
He no longer had to carry the burden of these sins.
Emelie suppressed the anger boiling inside her. She didn’t need to be this angry.
As she had said earlier, this was just the beginning. She would make sure they, like her father Xander, stood in court and admitted to their crimes with their own mouths.
Emelie turned around to sit back in the chair. There were still things she wanted to ask Charles.
Meanwhile, Charles thought that she was about to leave, so he called out to her and asked, “
Ms. Hoven, may I ask you one more favor?”
Emelie turned and asked, “What is it?”
“Take care of Emmie and her daughter for me.”
They were the only ones he couldn’t let go of. “Since she’s one of your people, surely you won’t just abandon her once she’s served her purpose, right?”
Emelie was genuinely surprised to hear him say that.
He wasn’t begging her to spare his father. Instead, he was asking her to look after Emmie.
She crossed her arms and asked, “Aren’t you at all curious about how we met and why she helped me bring you down?”
Charles maintained his attitude. “I’m not curious, and I don’t want to know. I just want you to promise to take care of them.”
Emelie’s gaze sharpened as she replied coolly, “Emmie and I aren’t bound by any employer- employee ties. We merely used each other when it suited us. Once you’re behind bars, our alliance ends. I have no obligation to look after her and her daughter.”
She then added, “Unless you have something to trade.”
Something to trade, did she say? Charles pursed his lips. “Ms. Hoven, I liked you back then. You might not remember, but years ago, at a restaurant in Eastania, I promised you I’d quit smoking. And I haven’t touched a cigarette since.”
Emelie scoffed. “What’s this? Mr. Davis, are you trying to play the same emotional card that Mr. Middleton did?”
“William?” Charles nodded in agreement. “He liked you more than I did.”
“Liked” wasn’t the right word, so he corrected himself.
“He loved you. He went to great lengths to protect you, putting on a show for us time and time again. I wanted to protect you too, so I played along with him.”
Emelie paused. “What show?”
Charles sighed. “Do you remember that time when he was always showing you off? Kissing you in front of the hospital, proudly introducing you as his wife at the company, hiring all those nannies and chefs to care for you while you were pregnant, and even personally taking you to visit your mother, who was still in a coma, in the hospital?”
Emelie narrowed her eyes slightly.
She remembered those things. She had always found it strange how William suddenly started behaving like an over-the-top romantic and making a scene every day.
Charles explained, “He did all of that for us to see.”
By “us”, he mainly meant Charles and Beathan.
“He wanted us to believe that you two were deeply in love and that you chose him over the Pierce family. That you and he were a united front, and therefore, you weren’t a threat to us, and we wouldn’t need to silence you.”