Relentless Pursuit After Divorce-Chapter 71 - 0. Eight Years Ago Old Events_1
Chapter 71: 071. Eight Years Ago Old Events_1
Chapter 71: 071. Eight Years Ago Old Events_1
In front of him, I packed away all my sharp edges…
If this had been a few years earlier and he had heard Elly Campbell say this, he would have found her laughable and utterly unaware of herself.
Yet on that day, he had witnessed with his own eyes how her superb medical skills had pulled his sister back from the brink of death…
In front of her father and illegitimate daughter, her overbearing presence had seemed like she was the ruler of the world, standing high above everyone else…
That kind of Elly Campbell, the Elly Campbell he had recently seen, was all sharp edges, a picture of disdain for the world, full of the pride of a favored daughter of heaven.
He had almost forgotten that her grandfather was the venerable General, that she was the only daughter of the Campbell Family, born high above others, proud as a little peacock princess.
Yet she put away all her sharpness in front of him, so much so that he almost forgot her identity, forgot the proud blood that ran through her veins.
A woman who exudes arrogance in her very bones, why would she do such a thing.
“Elly Campbell!”
He suddenly rushed to the desk, picked up his phone, and called Elly Campbell’s cellphone.
“Why did you… why did you do that to me back then?”
The phone rang with its monotonous buzz, and he murmured this question softly to himself, as if asking Elly Campbell or asking himself. For the first time, Adam Jones began to wonder whether someone had deliberately plotted against him and Elly Campbell back then.
He even began to fear that the truth of what had really happened back then was at odds with what he had known, and that he had missed out on so many years with Elly Campbell because of such an illusion.
As expected, Elly Campbell hung up the phone, and after he frantically called several more times, the other side finally gave a disconnected tone.
That night, Adam Jones suffered from insomnia once again.
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The next day, at the Jones Corporation—
“Robert Green, come in!”
From the internal line inside the CEO’s Office, Adam Jones’s irritated voice could be heard, lacking the usual composure and clarity, which couldn’t help but cause a sense of dread.
In less than a minute, Robert Green knocked on the door of the CEO’s Office. “CEO, did you call for me?”
“Immediately look into something for me. You must find out everything, leave no stone unturned.”
Robert Green looked at Adam Jones, his face full of consternation.
He was clearly a CEO’s assistant, not a private detective. Why did the CEO always ask him to investigate things?
This time, it couldn’t be another task involving his wife, could it?
Robert Green involuntarily swallowed hard and said, “As you command, CEO.”
He saw his boss’s already cool eyes seem to think of something, the chilliness intensifying from mere moments ago.
“Eight years ago, in West Flower District, someone bribed…”
Adam Jones relayed to Robert Green an incident that had occurred eight years ago, making Robert Green’s eyes widen incredulously as if he had caught wind of some incredible secret, fearing at any moment the CEO might silence him forever.
Being a CEO’s personal assistant was indeed a high-risk job.
Despite his shock, Robert Green’s face remained stoic and earnest, replying, “Alright, CEO, I will arrange for someone to look into this matter immediately.”
After speaking, he adjusted his impeccable glasses and exited the CEO’s Office.
Once Robert Green had left, Adam Jones’s gaze slowly turned to a small photo frame hidden behind a stack of documents, staring blankly at the woman in the frame.
The photo showed a woman captured in a moment as she turned her head, unaware of the photograph being taken.
In the afternoon, an internal call rang for the CEO’s secretary, the call coming from the front desk. After taking the call, the CEO’s secretary looked somewhat troubled.
