Refusing to Remarry: Mr. Hawthorne, You Are Out-Chapter 171: What Exactly Is She Using to Threaten You?
The truth is now laid bare before our eyes - it was Candace Ford who went through great lengths to harm Raine Sinclair. Now, she reaps what she sowed, and instead of repenting, she places all the blame on Raine!
Jonas Hawthorne no longer felt the slightest sympathy for her.
He helped her lie down on the bed and got up. "Take care of yourself, there’s a long life ahead of you."
After leaving these words, Jonas Hawthorne turned to leave.
Candace Ford quickly reached out to grab him, pleading bitterly, "Jonas, don’t go. How can you bear to leave me alone like this? I... I just lost a child, I..."
She cried, her eyes filled with sorrow, her face full of helplessness.
For the first time, Candace’s heart was utterly panicked.
Before, she had the child as a bargaining chip, but now she didn’t have a child. How could she keep him?
Jonas Hawthorne brushed her hand away without saying another word and walked away.
"Boohoo! Jonas, how can you leave me..."
From behind came Candace’s endless cries, just as expected.
Jonas Hawthorne’s brow twitched slightly, but he didn’t linger any longer.
The nurses nearby, seeing this, gathered together to discuss.
"Ms. Ford lost the baby. Will the wedding still happen as planned?"
"I guess not! Didn’t you see that Mr. Hawthorne just left? Probably not much feeling there..."
"She was a mistress all along, trying to climb up by having a child. Now the child is gone... I think it’s difficult."
"I don’t even know what Mr. Hawthorne saw in her..."
Candace’s crying lasted for a long, long time.
Perhaps she also mourned the loss of her own child, but more than that, it was about everything she had painstakingly built being destroyed in an instant!
Not only did she fail to get rid of the child Raine Sinclair was carrying, but she also lost her own child!
Clenching her teeth tightly, Candace placed all of this hatred on Raine Sinclair!
From between her clenched teeth, she squeezed out the words, "Raine Sinclair..." Her eyes full of hatred and destruction, "Everything you’ve imposed on me, I will get back at you! Just wait!"
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After leaving the hospital, Jonas Hawthorne went straight to the police station.
Lily Sinclair and Ian Jacobs had both given their statements, as well as the Hawthorne family’s bodyguards who were present at the time. All surveillance footage had also been obtained.
Levi Lane sorted through all the information and reported it word for word to Jonas Hawthorne.
After briefly reviewing those statements and understanding the ins and outs of the situation, Jonas Hawthorne went to see Lily Sinclair.
The Sinclair family’s parents had also arrived, sobbing outside the police station for a long time, but no one inside dared to let their family reunite, only allowing the lawyer to enter.
If it were an ordinary person, it might have been different, but with Jonas Hawthorne’s personal instructions, no one dared to offend him.
By now, Lily Sinclair had been in the interrogation room for a full four hours.
For the first two hours, no one spoke a word to her.
In the small triangular room, surrounded by silence, only a desk lamp cast an unsettling light.
Until her mental defenses were slowly dismantled, did someone finally come in to record her statement.
After everything was said, she was left alone at the table once more.
She had never been to such a place in her life, and mentally, she found it hard to cope.
It took a long time for someone to open the door again, and she was surprised to see that the person was Jonas Hawthorne...
Although this man used to be her brother-in-law, they weren’t very familiar.
Jonas Hawthorne rarely visited the Sinclair family with Raine, so Lily Sinclair seldom saw him.
At this moment...
Their eyes unconsciously met, yet it seemed as if they were looking at a stranger. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
Jonas Hawthorne entered alone.
He slowly walked over and sat down in front of Lily Sinclair, throwing the statement he was holding in front of her, and asked in a cold voice, "Is everything written here true?"
"Yes." Lily Sinclair nodded.
There was nothing left for her to hide.
Jonas Hawthorne raised his eyes to look at her, and found that this girl didn’t resemble her sister much, but her eyes carried a hint of Raine Sinclair’s charm.
He felt a sudden softening of his heart.
"When did you start interacting with Candace Ford? Besides asking you to drug your sister, what else did she do?" Jonas Hawthorne continued to ask.
Everything was in the statement, but Lily Sinclair hadn’t been very detailed in her account, so Jonas Hawthorne asked again to confirm the details and to see if she was lying, whether her story would be consistent.
Lily Sinclair lowered her eyes and said each word clearly, "The time Candace Ford attempted suicide, and you drew my sister’s blood, I saw it in the hospital. Afterward, Candace approached me. She said I had lived in my sister’s shadow all my life and would never amount to anything. She caught hold of my weakness and wanted me to fight my sister for the Sinclair Group’s inheritance. She wanted to control the entire Sinclair Group by controlling me."
Jonas Hawthorne’s mind drifted back to the past...
When he heard Lily Sinclair mention the time he drew Raine Sinclair’s blood, his heart clenched in pain once more!
His eyebrows slightly furrowed, he gritted his teeth to suppress the feeling, and then asked, "Your weakness? What weakness?"
"..." Lily Sinclair was momentarily silent.
Seeing her like this, Jonas Hawthorne continued, "Ian Jacobs’ recording mentioned that Candace Ford had videos and photos of you. My people checked Candace Ford’s computer and phone and found nothing."
"How is that possible?" Lily Sinclair was shocked too, "Nothing at all?"
Could it be that Candace Ford was lying to her?
But the photos that were sent to her email were real...
Could Candace Ford have deleted them in advance?
If it wasn’t Candace Ford, then where did the videos and photos go?
Jonas Hawthorne saw her panicked expression and asked again, "What exactly was she using to threaten you?"
Lily Sinclair bit her teeth tightly, unwilling to speak.
She could admit any other guilt, but this one, she absolutely couldn’t say!
"Lily, if you don’t say anything, there’s no way I can help you." Jonas Hawthorne’s tone softened, entirely for Raine Sinclair’s sake.
Even though Lily Sinclair almost made a grave mistake, when he asked Raine Sinclair about her childhood at the hospital, there was no hatred in her eyes.
It showed that she never blamed this sister.
"I..." Lily Sinclair opened her mouth, unsure what to say, then suddenly remembered something and looked at Jonas Hawthorne in surprise, "You’re helping me? Why?"
"For your sister." Jonas Hawthorne answered directly.
This answer made Lily Sinclair furrow her brow tightly, "Ha, you say it’s for my sister? Do you think I would believe you? Who was it that brought the pregnant mistress to our home back then, insisting on driving my sister away, making her the laughingstock of the entire city? And now you’re saying it’s for my sister?"
After asking in disbelief, Lily Sinclair quickly realized and almost answered her own question, "I get it, you must have found out that my sister’s child is yours, that’s why your attitude changed so quickly, right?"
