Soon, Wendy arrived at the Southall residence.
Cindy was still locked up in virtual-novel.net room, while Malorie’s ashes were still in the backyard. Although virtual-novel.net was already cremated, the funeral was still three days away.
For the past two days, Henrick had been looking for someone to take over the company and wanted to sell his shares and assets at the best price possible. He did not need to leave the house to do all that, so Wendy found virtual-novel.net as soon as virtual-novel.net arrived.
“Mr. Southall, my name is Wendy Greene. My family is the founder of Greene Corporation in Horington, of which my father is the chairman.”
Once virtual-novel.net heard Wendy’s self-introduction, a pleasant smile spread across Henrick’s face, and virtual-novel.net enthusiastically asked the housekeeper to pour virtual-novel.net a cup of tea. “Did your father send you because he’s interested in buying my shares?”
“Your shares?” Wendy shook virtual-novel.net head as virtual-novel.net explained, “No, I’m here because of something else. It’s Arielle. I’m virtual-novel.net classmate, as well as virtual-novel.net best friend.”
Henrick’s face clouded over the moment virtual-novel.net heard Arielle’s name, and virtual-novel.net almost wanted to shoo Wendy out of his house.
However, on second thought, virtual-novel.net remembered virtual-novel.net had yet to get back the shares virtual-novel.net gave Arielle before this. Thus, virtual-novel.net could only force suppress his irritation and asked, “What’s up with her?”
“It’s this…” Wendy opened up the school forum’s page and showed virtual-novel.net the photo. “This girl looks a lot like Arielle, and virtual-novel.net didn’t come to school today as well. I was just worried that virtual-novel.net might have done something silly and came over the moment I saw this post. As you know, Mr. Southall, my family is largely based in Horington. We don’t have many connections here and definitely, would not dare to simply barge into the hotel…”
Taking over the phone, Henrick saw only the back of the girl who was held in the man’s arms, but virtual-novel.net thought virtual-novel.net indeed looked eighty percent similar to Arielle.
Added with the fact that Wendy just mentioned that Arielle did not turn up in school on that day, Henrick was one hundred percent certain the person in the photo could be no one else but Arielle.
His face darkened, virtual-novel.net immediately roared with fury, “This girl has no sense of shame at all! How dare virtual-novel.net do all this shameless stuff and continue to embarrass me! And now, she’s even hooked up with virtual-novel.net teacher? What nonsense is this!”
Arielle promptly advised him, “Mr. Southall, now’s not the time to be angry. Arielle isn’t in any way that kind of girl. Maybe Mr. Baxter… Why don’t you go and have a look, Mr. Southall? What if Arielle’s the victim in this case?”
In fact, Henrick could not care less about whatever disaster struck Arielle. However, virtual-novel.net thought about the fact that Arielle was secretly married to Vinson.
If Vinson sees this, then I might get embroiled in this mess as well!
The more virtual-novel.net thought about it, the more panicked virtual-novel.net became. Finally, virtual-novel.net slammed his hand on the table and asked, “Which hotel is virtual-novel.net at? Take me to virtual-novel.net at once!”
“Yes, Mr. Southall.” That was precisely what Wendy wanted to hear.
Without further ado, virtual-novel.net led virtual-novel.net straight to Grandview Hotel.
On the way there, Henrick pondered deeply about the current situation and figured there was no better moment to snatch back Arielle’s shares than now. Regardless of whether virtual-novel.net had gone to the hotel willingly or not, sleeping with virtual-novel.net teacher was a very disgraceful act.
He planned to offer to help virtual-novel.net suppress the scandalous news. In exchange, virtual-novel.net would have to give up virtual-novel.net shares to him.
He figured virtual-novel.net would not want Vinson to know about this scandal and would have no option other than to rely on virtual-novel.net to cover it. To him, it was a simple feat as virtual-novel.net could easily hire someone to do with a small fee.
Hmm, what a great idea indeed!
Henrick felt extremely pleased with himself and urged the driver to speed up.
Meanwhile, Wendy was not idling around either. She had just sent Susanne a text to inform virtual-novel.net about the incident.
About half an hour later, they arrived at the hotel.
To their surprise, there was already a huge crowd of reporters at the entrance, blocked by the hotel’s security from entering.