It had been two days since Dorothy had any contact with either Credence, Marvin, Jonathan, or Benjamin. She had been staying in Jonathan’s hospital.
Jonathan had considered that innocent people might get hurt should people come looking for Dorothy. This is why he deliberately emptied a rarely used building and assigned Marvin and several of his men there.
In order to further convince Melanie of the bait, through his friendship with Jonathan, Credence decided to hire a female nurse who had features similar to Dorothy’s. He needed her to cooperate with him in taking lots of intimate photos and videos.
Of course, most of the photos were taken from their backs. If they wanted pictures of their faces, they needed to use cutting-edge technology to edit Dorothy’s face in order to make it look convincing.
After some searching, Jonathan discovered that Minnie’s figure looked the most similar to Dorothy’s.
Jonathan began to follow Minnie around all day long while she was at work. She couldn’t shrug him away despite her best efforts.
Minnie was thoroughly annoyed. Recently, her boyfriend had been treating her indifferently. She had several bills to pay off as well. Now, she also had to stop Mr. Stanton from harassing her at work. She was in such a terrible mood that she was very close to suffering from depression.
If it wasn’t for the fact that this hospital offered a higher salary than others, she would have resigned a long time ago.
Right now, in the hospital corridor, Minnie was staring at Jonathan, who had a naughty grin on his face. She looked annoyed and her black hair was disheveled. “Mr. Stanton, I’ve told you several times now. I won’t do it. I won’t take any photos with your friends! I’m working. Please move aside and stop interrupting my work.”
Jonathan looked at her cute face and felt his heartbeat quicken. He flashed a faint smile. “Minnie, don’t be so quick to say no! It’s actually quite simple. You won’t be doing anything vulgar. Just take a few photos with my friend. I’m offering you 200, 000 dollars. You might not agree to it right now, but by noontime, you’ll be begging me for this offer!”
Ever since Minnie graduated from nursing school, she applied and worked hard to be employed at this hospital. She was only 21 years old, and she had never met such a despicable man like Jonathan who constantly flirted with her. When she heard him say that she would be begging and crying, she became so enraged, her face turned pale.
She slammed the medicine bottle in her hand hard on the pushcart. “Mr. Stanton, just give up. I may not have a lot, but I still have my dignity!”
Jonathan had tried numerous times, but he still couldn’t persuade her to agree. His patience was starting to run out as well.
Now, he felt personally insulted by Minnie. His smile gradually disappeared, and his eyebrows twitched. “Okay, it seems you do have some backbone. I, for one, would like to see how long you can keep the act up once Matthew calls you.”
“What do you mean? How do you know Matthew? What did you do to him? Jonathan, I’m warning you, if I find out you’ve done something to Matthew behind my back, I’ll never forgive you.”
Minnie’s face darkened. She struggled to squeeze out those words from her throat. She looked like she was about to explode from rage.
She was so mad, she didn’t realize she had called Jonathan by his name.
“Matthew is a good-for-nothing scumbag. He’s more likely to destroy himself before I’d be able to do anything to him.”
Jonathan shrugged and stared at Minnie’s petite face, which was full of vitality. The more he looked at her, the more beautiful she appeared and the more intense his desires burned.
This was a feeling he had never experienced with the other girls in the nightclub before.
He’d do whatever it takes to win Minnie over just to get a taste of this thrilling sensation!
Marvin had seen enough, he strode up and spoke to Minnie in a calm tone. “Miss Luther. Hello, I am Jonathan’s friend. It’s like this, we need your help with something important, and you’re the only one who can help us.”
Minnie instantly recognized the solemn-looking man. She had seen him several times, but only in passing. They’ve never spoken before.
She noted how serious he was. It didn’t look like he was poking fun of her. She pursed her lips. “There are so many other female nurses. Why am I the only one who can help you?”
“Because your figure and silhouette resembles that of Credence’s wife.”
Upon hearing this, Minnie became flustered. She was speechless for a moment. Jonathan added without thinking. “It’s also because out of all the other female nurses, your the only one I want to sleep with!”
“F*ck off!” Minnie was livid.
She frowned at his statement. She wanted nothing more than to smash every single medicine bottle on the cart, on Jonathan’s head.
At the very worst, she would just quit.
She gave Jonathan an angry glare. After that, she turned to look at Marvin. “I’m sorry, I can’t help you.”
Minnie then angrily pushed the cart into the lounge. She vented all her anger by slamming the door as hard as she could when she left.
An extremely loud bang rang out. Jonathan’s eardrums felt like they would explode!
With one hand in the pocket of his camouflage pants, Marvin glanced at Jonathan, who had shriveled up. He was smiling and his chest was trembling. “You can’t even handle one little nurse. How are you going to explain this to Credence?”
“What’s there to be afraid of?”
Jonathan wasn’t worried at all. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to Marvin. He then lit his own cigarette and slowly took a puff. He blinked lazily at the cloud of smoke. “Marv, we can’t rush this. From my estimation, Minnie will be back in about 30 minutes.”
“Let’s hope you’re right. Don’t keep Credence waiting!”
Marvin looked at the self-indulgent man, and walked off into the elevator.
After Marvin took off, Jonathan leaned against the wall and continued smoking. He squinted and listened closely to the sounds coming from the other room.
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Minnie entered the room, feeling very down. She was the only one in the restroom. Just as she sat down in one of the stalls to massage her temples, her phone rang.
She took out her cell phone and glanced at the screen. Matthew’s name appeared on the phone screen.
Matthew’s call soothed her anger. She felt a lot better being able to talk to him.
He hardly contacted her in the past two months. Every time she called him, his phone was either be switched off, or he’d hang up after saying he was busy.
What a surprise, Matthew was actually calling her. Minnie felt a sweet, happy feeling in her heart. She quickly answered the phone with a smile on her face.
However, after listening to what he had to say, a frown replaced her smile. “Matthew, you’ve accidentally hit someone while driving? What about you, are you all right? You are not injured, that’s great! What? The person you knocked down wants 200, 000 dollars as compensation? Is he badly hurt? I see, so there’s a chance that he may end up disabled!”
“But, I don’t have any money right now. I gave my entire salary to my mother as soon as I got it. If I didn’t, she’d torment my brother. I can’t do anything about that either.”
“What should I do? Minnie, if I don’t get the money, my parents will kill me. I heard that he has relatives who work at the police station. If I don’t pay him 200, 000 dollars, I’ll be sent to prison. Minnie, I don’t want to go to prison! I want to make more money to marry you instead and to also bring your brother home as soon as possible. I don’t want you or your brother to be abused by your stepmother. I want the three of us to be happy together.”
Hearing Matthew’s hoarse voice over the phone, her heart almost broke. She was sobbing when she replied. “Matthew, don’t be so hard on yourself. I know you didn’t hit that person on purpose. You didn’t want any accidents to happen. 200, 000 dollars, right? I’ll look for my colleague and try to get the money. I will try to get you the money as soon as possible.”
After hanging up the phone, Minnie was completely dumbfounded.
This was not a small amount. It was a whopping 200, 000 dollars. Where was she going to get that kind of money?
Then Minnie remembered what Jonathan had said. He said that in less than half an hour, she would come back to him in tears.
Did that despicable person set up a trap for Matthew?
Thinking of that, Minnie turned serious. She couldn’t sit around anymore. She immediately stood up and rushed out the door.
As soon as she opened the door, she bumped into Jonathan. She was so shocked, she almost screamed out loud.
When she was sure that it really was Jonathan, she glared at him. “You set my boyfriend up and are blackmailing him for 200, 000 dollars aren’t you? You’ve gone too far!”
He asked, “You say that, but do you have any evidence?”
Compared with Minnie’s flustered shouts, Jonathan was calm. “Minnie, you’re such a fool. You’ve almost been scammed by your boyfriend, but yet you still want to help him get the money! Why don’t you call him again and ask him what he’s doing with that other woman in his car.”
“I’ll tell you. He was having s*x in that car, and it wasn’t with just one girl, he was doing it with two.” Jonathan squinted and let out a soft snort, “Don’t ask me how I know… But, it’s because one of the girls he is having s*x with is my friend’s girlfriend.”
Minnie didn’t know which was more terrifying. Jonathan’s story or Matthew’s accident. She stood still for a while, and her gaze gradually turned from Jonathan’s eyes towards the window. She was deep in thought and whispered, “Is it true? Is everything you said real?”
“Of course, I’m not a great man by any standard, but I don’t lie to women.”
Jonathan raised his eyebrows and smiled. He took his phone out of his pocket and was ready to give his friend a call. “If you don’t believe me, I’ll ask him to send you some evidence. There are photos of them together, on the bed, and video footage too. You’ll have everything you need.”
Minnie closed her eyes and clenched her fists. “No, I don’t want to see it! Mr. Stanton, you said that if I promised to take photos with your friend, you’d pay me 200, 000 dollars. I’ll take that money right now. Any payment method will do.”
“Okay, send me your account number, I will transfer it to you right away.”
After so much effort, he finally succeeded. Jonathan smiled.
Minnie stared at the amount of money that was just transferred to her account. She sent it to Matthew without hesitation. After that, she sent him a text message.
However, Matthew didn’t even call her, he only replied with a simple ‘Thank you.’
She stared at the reply, and her eyes turned red. She silently pursed her lips and lowered her head in resignation. “Mr. Stanton, let’s go and take those photos.”
The two of them walked into the silent nursing department together. Credence was already waiting in the ward.