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At that time, she had hurriedly packed her things and forgot to check them carefully. Surprisingly, she had brought the necklace along.
Considering that the item was costly, she could not possibly keep it.
The next day, she drove to the villa again. She spent quite some time pressing the doorbell, but no one opened the door.
“You don’t have to press it anymore. The owner has left Melbourne.” A man dressed in a black suit appeared behind her.
“You are…”
“I’m a property agent. I came to take a few photos of the villa to share it online and sell it,” the man smiled and said, “The owner said that he wants to sell it at a cheap price. Given its location and design, I believe it’ll be sold off very shortly.”
As soon as the property agent finished speaking, he suddenly noticed that the woman’s pretty face looked pale. She nearly missed her footing. “Are you okay, pretty lady?”
“I… I’m okay.” Cate handed him her business card. “I’d like to buy this villa, but I hope you won’t reveal my identity to the previous owner. I’ll pay you a commission as well.”
“Oh, alright, sure.” The property agent was excited. Little did he expect that he would be able to sell the villa just by walking to the entrance. What an easy task.
After getting into the car, Cate was overwhelmed by a sense of frustration. All of a sudden, she felt as if her heart had been hollowed out.
Even though she had signed the divorce papers, she did not expect Shaun to leave Melbourne so soon.
It would mean that both of them might not meet each other anymore since they were in different cities.
She had resigned herself to the situation, but why was her heart still aching so much that she could hardly breathe?
She gripped The Queen’s Necklace while weeping hysterically.
…
40 minutes later, she showed up at the lobby of the law firm with a pair of sunglasses on her face.
The receptionist at the entrance immediately recognized her. After seeing her, the receptionist sighed dejectedly as she would no longer be able to see Mr. Lyons’s handsome face every day. “Are you looking for Mr. Lyons? He has left.”
“I’m looking for Chase.”
The receptionist contacted Chase’s assistant right away.
Soon, she arranged for Cate to go up.
In the office, Cate passed a velvet box to Chase. “The Queen’s Necklace is in the box. Please pass it to him.”
“Shaun won’t want it,” Chase said helplessly, “Take it back. I think he’ll throw it once he sees it.”
“Let him throw it, then. This item is worth three billion dollars, which is costly to me. I don’t want to owe him.” With that, Cate got up and left.
Cate received a call from the detention center in the afternoon. It was mentioned that Jeffery was keen on seeing her for the last time.
Jeffery’s and Sally’s sentences had been handed down. Since Sally was the assailant, she was sentenced to 20 years.
As for Jeffery, he was sentenced to only ten years for being the accomplice. Considering their old age, their lives were basically over.
After some thought, she decided to visit them.
When she saw Jeffery again after a couple of days, he already had gray hair as if he had grown ten years older.
“Why did you ask me to come?” Cate asked indifferently. She already had no feelings for him at all.
Jeffery replied miserably, “I regret it, and I’ve surrendered to my fate. I’ve transferred all of Hudson’s shares to you. All I hope is that you’ll let Rosabella off the hook. After all, she’s your cousin, who’s also your only family member.”
“She has done a lot of evil things.” Cate frowned in sarcasm. “When she hurt me, did she even think of me as her cousin?”
Jeffery gnashed his teeth. “Did you also ask someone to hurt her? Ever since Sally and I were sent to jail, she hasn’t visited us at all.”
Stunned, Cate was left speechless. “With a lot of things going on recently, I didn’t even have time to do anything to her. It’s unsurprising that she hasn’t come and visited you, though. How long have you raised her? For a cruel person like her who will do anything to achieve her goals, do you still expect her to be filial to you? I’m sure she’s now shunning you as much as she can.”
Jeffery widened his eyes in a daze. What Cate said appeared to come as a huge blow to him.
When Jeffery and Sally gave it a thought, they realized that Rosabella was indeed the sort who was more selfish than them. How could they possibly pin their hopes on that daughter?
She was their biological daughter, but so what? If they were badly off, she would not want to acknowledge them either.
Jeffery forced a smile. In fact, Cate had been a filial daughter. However, Jeffery and Sally had never really paid attention to her only because she was not their biological child. “You’re right. It’s my fault, Cate.”
“I hope you’ll feel remorse in prison for what you’ve done.” Cate stood up and left the detention center.
After she returned to the office, she asked her assistant to look into Rosabella.
The assistant soon brought her news about Rosabella. “She has gone missing for quite a few days. She didn’t even bring along the things from her house. There haven’t been any transactions in her bank account either. She seems to have vanished into thin air.”
Cate was dumbfounded. Little did she expect that Rosabella would vanish just like that after having a long battle with her. By the look of things, she did not actually run away. Her life was probably in danger.
These days, Cate worked and looked after Wesley. Basically, one could say that they were living together.
She spent New Year’s Eve in Wesley’s villa.
At night, the Sanderson family’s house was well lit.
As Cate pushed Wesley, who was sitting in the wheelchair, from the room, she happened to meet Nathan, Tracy, and Sonya who came to have dinner. The three of them were stunned to see her.
Sonya’s expression hardened straight away. “Cate, how shameless you are to appear in our house—”
“Shut up. Call her ‘Sister-in-law’ next time.” Old Madam Sanderson walked toward Sonya and told her off. “She’ll be engaged to Wesley after New Year’s. Stop bringing up anything that happened in the past.”
She paused and then said to Nathan, “You have to call her ‘Aunt’.”
“…”
At that instant, Sonya and Nathan wore incredulous expressions.
Cate felt like shedding tears due to it being so awkward.
This was the scene she had dreamed of several months ago. Although the great scene had finally taken place, she did not take delight in it.
“Dad, are you guys kidding?” Sonya nearly went crazy. Previously, Cate almost became her daughter-in-law, yet Sonya had to call her ‘Sister-in-law’ now. Was God tricking her?
Old Master Sanderson glared at Sonya. “She’s now the person in charge of Hudson. Her status is higher than yours. Is it hard for you to call her ‘Sister-in-law’?”
Sonya kept quiet at once.
She was not a fool. If Wesley and Cate got married, it would benefit the Sanderson family. What was more, with Wesley’s current condition, any woman from an eminent family would definitely refuse to marry him.