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Seated in the office chair, Cate lifted her head, and her pretty eyes looked confused. ” Your brother and Jessica?” “Yeah.”
Mireya chuckled. “You have the Costner family to back you, and I’ll have my sister-in-law to back me in the future. If Ryan dares bully me, I’ll get my sister-in-law to slaughter him.”
“Well, this is unexpected.” Cate was in a daze for a long time before she could digest the news. “But your brother is indeed a good man. Jessica has good taste.”
“He is, but you weren’t interested in him when I introduced him to you back then.” Mireya snorted.
“Your brother looks at me like a sister.”
Cate shrugged helplessly. “By the way, do you need me to talk to your future sister-in -law? About the countless times that you’ve tried to matchmake your brother and me?”
“…It was my fault, Madam Cox.”
Mireya immediately put her head on her office desk, and she was on the verge of crying.
“Madam Cox?” Cate pulled Mireya’s ear. “We’re the same age. How dare you call me that way, Madam Lynch.” Being addressed as either Madam Cox or Madam Lynch made them sound old.
Mireya decided not to hurt Cate anymore. ” Let bygones be bygones, alright? Cate, please don’t tell her that.”
“Are you that frightened of your new sister-in -law?” Cate found it amusing.
“No. I’m frightened of my brother.” Mireya sighed. “Although my brother usually pulls a long face, he really pampers Jessica. If I try to destroy their relationship, he might kick me out of the house.”
Cate was not surprised. Forrest might look as though he did not care about relationships, but he was an honest man. Once he fell in love with someone, he would be serious about the relationship.
“I’ll have to prepare a gift for your brother then.”
The smile on Cate’s face gradually faded. “By the way, the day Sarah will be sentenced to death has been set. It’ll be the 3rd of next month.”
“Huh? She’s still alive?” Mireya was stunned. ” I thought she was dead.”
“…From being given the death sentence to its execution takes some time. The process is considered fast for Sarah,” Cate said, feeling speechless.
“Oh, okay. I thought she had died long ago.”
Indeed, Mireya was unbothered about Sarah.
After all, she was living a happy life now.
With her brother getting married soon, she even felt that luck was on the Lynch family’s side.
Cate no longer saw the trace of sadness on Mireya’s face.
She smiled, thinking that this situation was good.
All she hoped was that… Eliza could be as optimistic as Mireya. She could not understand why Eliza’s eyes revealed a deep sense of sorrow when Eliza was so young.
In prison, Sarah was locked in the innermost cell.
When she got into jail, she had cried, kicked up a fuss, broken down, felt hopeless, and even regretted her actions before.
If she were given another chance, she certainly would not have tried everything she could to approach Shaun. If she had not approached the three wealthiest men in Canberra, she would not have grown greedy and wicked over time.
Every day, she was consumed by fear as she counted down the days till her death, within three short months, she had been mentally tortured until she became skin and bones.
Even her hair had fallen a lot, making her look much older than a 50-year-old woman.
“Sarah Neeson, someone’s here to visit you.”
All of a sudden, the door opened, and she was taken out.
Only when Sarah entered the reception room featuring a special glass could she see the man outside. The man was dressed in a white shirt and a pair of black pants. He looked tall and noble with a pair of golden-rimmed glasses on his nose. At first glance, he was good looking and elegant. However, upon closer look, the corners of the man’s lips were dull and thin.
“Chester…”
Sarah’s lifeless eyes finally shone with a gleam of hope.
“Chester, I was wrong, and I have realized my mistakes during this period of time. Since we grew up together, please save me. I don’t want to die.”
Sarah burst out in tears as she held the receiver, she would have knelt to beg him if it were not for the glass between them.
Chester simply watched her with indifferent eyes the entire time. His handsome, intricate face was so cold that it was void of warmth.
A minute later, under that gaze, Sarah’s heart turned colder and colder until despair overcame her.
She should not have put too much hope on Chester. Between Shaun, Rodney, and Chester, only Chester’s coldness was bone-deep.
“Are you done crying?” Chester asked softly.
Sarah was not willing to give up, so she pleaded, “Chester, I guarantee you that I’ll leave Australia for a faraway place if you save me. I’ll never go against you guys again.”
“I came here just to make some things clear.” Chester could not be bothered to listen to Sarah’s nagging. “On the day of the court hearing, Thomas said you targeted Charity many times. What did you do to her? How many tricks did you play?”
Sarah was stunned, she looked at the man behind the glass with astonishment.
After what felt like a long moment of silence, she started chuckling in a low voice as if she was crazy. “So you came here specifically for Charity. I never expected this… I really didn’t “Say it.” Chester crossed his legs and reminded her in a calm voice.
“Okay, but if only you get your connections to save me. Removing my death sentence works too.” Sarah said, “I know many things.”
Chester chuckled when he heard her, but his handsome face remained cold. “Do you even have the right to negotiate with me?”
“Don’t you want to know about charity? she really loved you,” Sarah said gently.
“Oh,” Chester replied nonchalantly. “I’m more curious about the answer to some things but not to the extent that I have to know. Your death is inevitable. I can’t possibly make Shaun and his family unhappy for your sake. However, I really do hate people discussing terms with me and overestimating themselves. Let me remind you. There are many painful ways to die…”
Suddenly, Sarah trembled, and she stared at the man opposite her like he was a demon.
After some time, she gave up.
Since she was destined to die, she would not let the living people off as well.
Did Chester not want an answer? In that case, she would tell him everything.
“Okay. I’ll tell you everything.”
Chester adjusted his sitting position and waited quietly. “You said she loved me very much?”
“Charity loved you deeply.”
Sarah was suddenly curious whether her following words would make the cold man lose his composure, “when charity’s mother brought her along to my family, Thomas and I bullied her a lot in secret. I even had people spread rumors in school about her mother being a mistress so that no one in school would like her. That was why she was always alone until you, Rodney, and Shaun came to my place to play…
“Do you remember? Her leg cramped up when she was swimming in the pool. You were the one who saved her…”
Chester did not say a word.
He had a good memory, and he remembered everything Sarah said.
The year Chester first met Charity, he was 19 years old while she was 16 years old. They were in the prime of their youths.
Before he met her, he heard Sarah had a younger sister with the same father but a different mother.
He neither felt hate nor was curious about that.
However, when Chester hauled charity out from the water, the girl’s clear, dark eyes were filled with panic. When her innocent yet slightly-curvy figure hugged him tightly in the water, the young Chester had the instinctive reaction that every man would have.
“Chester, you can be heartless at times, but you can also be really gentle toward girls.”
Sarah said, “Your good looks, handsomeness, and gentlemanly behavior made the inexperienced charity fall in love with you very quickly. After that, whenever you came over to our home, you’d bring delicious food for her and be very caring toward her. Even when we went out to play, you’d always knowingly or unknowingly remind me to bring her along. I could see that you had feelings for her. But why? I was the one who invited you over. You were so outstanding, yet you liked charity, the person I hated the most.”
Chester nodded. “Very well. Go on.” His gentle voice made him hard to read.
“After that, when you and Charity started dating, I always intentionally and unintentionally tattled on her in front of you. Shaun and Rodney believed me, and you believed me because of them. As time passed, I made all of you misunderstand that Charity was a scheming, pretentious woman like her mother, who liked to seduce men.”
