Chapter 708: Chapter 702: The Truth Behind It All (2)

Watching Ruby Redmond turn and leave, and then close the door, she knew what despair truly was within her heart.

She was left with only a hundred and fifty bucks.

She didn’t even know where she would sleep tonight.

Sebastian Ford’s words were never just empty threats, and now they were fulfilled, taking away the only job she could rely on to support herself.

Stunned for quite a while, she left in a daze.

...

After getting into the car, as soon as Sebastian Ford started the engine, the ringtone of his phone rang.

Seeing the caller ID, he answered the call with the required respect, without missing a beat: "Cousin."

"What’s up?"

The voice over the phone sounded very tired, as if he hadn’t slept for several nights.

Sebastian Ford frowned, pressed his lips together, and asked, "Is it convenient to meet now?"

"Is there something you can’t say over the phone?"

Sebastian Ford: "No."

On the other end, there was a pause of about four seconds, as if he was considering something, and he did not interrupt him.

After a while, Joshua Jarvis said, "I just happened to have something to talk to you about as well. Find a café to wait for me and send me the location on WeChat."

"Okay."

After the call ended, Sebastian Ford’s emotions grew even heavier.

He didn’t like suspecting family, but given the current situation, he had no choice. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Forty minutes later, in the café.

Sebastian Ford sat in a booth by the window. After waiting for less than ten minutes, Joshua Jarvis arrived.

His handsome face appeared a bit pale, with dark circles under what were usually sharp eyes, making him look exhausted and wan. After sitting down opposite him, he lit a cigarette.

"What have you been up to? You weren’t in touch with me before; I thought you weren’t in Banyria."

Sebastian Ford calmly said, "I’ve been here all along."

He nodded, took a drag of the cigarette, ruffled his freshly washed hair, feeling somewhat irritable.

Suppressing his emotions, he managed a faint smile: "Sebastian, long time no see."

Sebastian Ford exchanged pleasantries as well: "Yeah, but in recent years, I probably won’t be traveling far anymore."

"What have you been busy with lately?"

Sebastian Ford answered honestly: "Helping some companies clear out black viruses. And you? You don’t seem to be doing well, is there some trouble?"

He stubbed out the cigarette with his fingers and threw it in the ashtray before saying, "Yeah, I’ve indeed encountered some trouble recently."

At this point, the waiter came over, took their order for two cups of coffee, and then left.

Before he could ask, Joshua Jarvis looked at him and got to the point: "After not contacting me for so long, you suddenly want to meet; is there something going on?"

His relationship with his cousin had always been good, especially after he helped him settle a matter in the past, strengthening their brotherly bond.

He didn’t beat around the bush.

After all, he needed to personally ask him about these matters.

If he found out that the matter with Poppy was unrelated to him, only then could he truly be at ease.

He took out his phone, opened up Weibo, found the post where Aiden Shaw had criticized Tiana Thorne, and then handed it to him: "I came for this matter."

Joshua Jarvis took it, glanced at it, and then placed the phone on the table, his expression cold, his voice full of displeasure: "The hacker who was always helping her from behind the scenes, that was you, wasn’t it?"

Hearing the displeasure in his cousin’s voice, he didn’t deny it and nodded: "Yes, it was me."

Upon hearing this, Joshua Jarvis furrowed his brows into a sharp ’V.’