Demon CEO's Hidden Love: Mr Grayson Stole Me From My Abusive Husband-Chapter 31: An Unpleasant Surprise At Halton Inc

"Here, don’t they look identical?" Serena asked, placing both bags side by side in front of Cassie. Her friend had finished making the replica and even Cassie couldn’t tell the difference.

"You’re right." An idea popped in her head, "Why don’t we give that wench the fake one instead?"

But Serena refused, "I know Evelyn, she’ll have it appraised first, if she finds out it’s a fake I’ll be in loads of trouble."

Cassie frowned, but accepted the fake, after all what mattered most was that she once had the real, and no one would ever know the truth.

Serena turned to leave, but Cassie held her back by the wrist, "Listen here, this will be the last time you ever threaten me. Don’t think for a second that I don’t have dirt against you too." She spat out with fire in her eyes.

Her mother faked a smile, "Cassie darling, you know that I would never reveal your secret to anyone, you just needed a slight push."

Cassie released her, she wasn’t certain a loud mouth like Serena could keep such a secret, but she had no other choice.

"But wait a second, do you really not know who it was that night at the hotel? Didn’t you try to find him?" Serena asked.

Cassie harrumphed, "Why would I go after that piece of scum? He’s not worth a measure of my time."

"But, aren’t you afraid that he’ll ruin your plans? Aside the two of us, he’s the only other person who could place the two dots together." Serena pointed out.

"Please! You’re overthinking things. No one except the family knows I’m pregnant, and no one will ever know. Once this child is born, I’ll give it to you to take care of, and continue my career, with Ethan’s love and riches to myself." She grinned from ear to ear as though imagining the scenario.

"I’m sure the bastard was too drunk to even remember a thing. So stop your worrying and go make me my protein shake!" She said, shooing Serena away.

Serena huffed outside, she felt Cassie was being too nonchalant about the entire situation. But then again, she was always a clever girl.

So maybe she was right and nothing would go wrong after all.

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"What?! Why haven’t you still found her?! How hard is it to find one woman?!" Ethan yelled at the top of his lungs, trashing his office table.

"My apologies sir, but not one of the private investigators have had any luck finding your wife." His assistant, Jen timidly responded. It was past ten pm but Ethan wouldn’t let her leave the office.

He got out of his chair and cracked a harsh slap on her face! "Are you saying she’s disappeared into thin air?!" He gripped her shoulders, "Or are you helping her hide from me?!"

Jen cried out from the pain, "No sir! I swear it-"

But Ethan was too angry to think and tossed her to the floor, not caring how she landed. He rolled his sleeves up and attempted to grab her hair, but a knock from the door interrupted them.

"Lying bitch!" He hissed at her, rolling his sleeves down, "Get off the damned floor and check what it is." He ordered, returning to his desk.

His assistant sniffled, and quickly wiped her tears, she pushed her hair forward, concealing the red mark on her cheek. She staggered over to the door, and peeked her head out.

"Mr Halton is currently very busy-"

The office messenger pressed a brown envelope to her and said,"This package was delivered to the boss, from an unknown source."

Jen nodded and took the envelope out of his hands. She waltzed into the office, her heart beating loudly out of her chest.

"What was it?" Ethan asked, he seemed to have calmed down and was doing something behind his computer.

"The messenger said it was sent from an unknown source, it’s addressed to you but there’s nothing else-"

Ethan banged his fist, "Just give me the damned thing!"

Jen flinched, but quickly placed the envelope on his desk, before he would get angrier and hurt her again.

Ethan tore open the envelope and took out the white printed paper inside. He scanned the first three lines, before he recognized what it was!

"That crazy bitch- how dare she?!" His jaw fell to the floor when he found himself staring at the hospital records that he was certain he had destroyed.

He ran his fingers nervously through his hair. Not only did the record contain detailed reports of how bruising, but her nails carried samples of his DNA, which were added to the test.

Stapled to the back was a picture of Brooke’s bruised body, the lawyer had taken to serve in court as evidence!

"That fucking whore! How dare she mess with me?!" He cursed, ripping and tossing everything on his desk.

The picture fell in front of Jen, and she couldn’t fight back the gasp. She was one of the only people who knew the CEO was married, and had seen his wife only once.

’What sort of animal is he?’ she held her cheek, fearing for her life.

Ethan immediately took out his phone and called the lawyer.

He had paid her a hefty amount to keep her mouth shut about everything and drop Brooke’s case. So how dare she backstab him after taking his money?!

"You crazy bitch! How dare you send this to me?! What are you trying to prove?!" Ethan yelled into the phone the second she picked up.

The lawyer responded, "I don’t understand what you mean sir. Do I perhaps know you?"

Ethan’s eyes widened, "What? Have you really gone mad?! Eh?! You fraudster!"

But the woman on the line remained composed, "If this is a prank I advise you desist. I’m a very busy woman, I don’t have time for this." She scolded right before she disconnected the call.

Ethan tried calling her back but his number had been blocked.

"Brooke you bitch! I’m going to fucking end you-" He was saying, only for one of the employees to rush into the office, with a frightened look on her face.

"Boss! Come quick! Someone has hacked into the company’s intranet and posted some disturbing photos on the server!"

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