Marina waited for Ryder’s news at home. Compared with Felix, she believed in his news more. Although this man was ruthless, he kept his word. There was no need to deceive her on trivial matters.
Someone knocked on the door.
Marina opened the door and found Shawn standing at the door. His tie was pulled off and two buttons fell off his collar. His shirt was messy, and he looked very embarrassed.
“Shawn, when did you come?”
Marina looked behind the door. There was no one. Maeve was not there.
Shawn didn’t say a word. He sat on the sofa.
Marina didn’t know why, so she could only go to the kitchen and pour a glass of hot milk first. Shawn’s stomach was not very good, and he had always had stomach problems.
Shawn’s face was pale, and it was probably because he had stomach problems.
When they were young, their father was busy with work, and their mother was passed away. The two siblings relied on each other and had very miserable days in the past.
Shawn went out to pick up trash and exchange it for money. He only bought one pancake, but he was reluctant to eat it. Every time, he left it to his little sister and said that he had eaten outside.
At that time, Marina trusted her brother when she was very young, so Shawn was hungry for a few years and later developed the stomach disease.
The pain in his stomach made his face pale. He was afraid that Marina would be worried, so he drank the hot milk. He waited for a while before feeling comfortable.
The siblings sat on the sofa and didn’t speak.
Marina was confused and waited for Shawn to speak first.
“Am I stupid?”
After Shawn finished speaking, his eyes turned red. He had indeed been absurd before because the days he lived when he was a child were bitter, and after his father became rich, in order to experience the life of rich people, he had played with young models and celebrities and spent a lot of money for them.
Later, when he got older, he found that he was still the same him. That kind of lifestyle was not suitable for him.
Especially after Marian got married, Shawn often felt lonely, and with Markus’ urge, he really wanted to find a suitable woman to marry.
Not for the other party’s money nor the outlook, as long as the woman was suitable, he would be okay with it.
However, later he met Maeve, and she reminded him of the past when he struggled at the bottom and struggled to live.
So, he wanted to marry Maeve so that she would not have to work so hard and live a stable life.
He thought that Maeve was simple and deserved something better, but he was wrong.
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
Marina guessed that it must be related to the project. Did Ryder make a move? It was too fast.
“I’m so stupid to be played by a woman.”
Shawn shook his head and continued to immerse himself in his own world.
“Shawn, what happened?”
Marina was anxious. Could it be that after the project was signed, Shawn discovered the problem, but it was too late?
The problem could be fixed. It was just a waste of money. As long as they did not develop it, there would be no follow-up problems.
One of them asked and the other did not answer. This atmosphere lasted for half an hour until Ryder entered the door.
“Take a look.”
Ryder leaned on the sofa and threw a pile of documents on the table.
Shawn was still in a daze. Marina picked it up and turned the pages. It was exactly what she thought. Once the White family took over, it was not as simple as losing money.
They might go bankrupt and even go to jail. Maeve was really ruthless!
Marina didn’t believe that Maeve didn’t know that there was a problem with the project.
“Shawn, take a good look at this.”
At that time, Marina did not care about Shawn’s emotions and handed over the documents.
Shawn looked at them, and his face became paler and paler. In the end, his body seemed to have been drained of strength and was covered in sweat. He could not say a word.
“Shawn, Maeve is not simple. This is the project you want to sign. Have you thought about the consequences?”
The project cost was huge. Before signing the contract, Shawn could rely on the words of a woman without even investigating. Ryder “respected” him for that.
As the president of the White family, Shawn could be willful to this extent.
“Consequences…”
Shawn’s mouth moved, and his expression was gloomy. He naturally understood the consequences.
“Maeve came to me a long time ago, but I didn’t agree. What kind of eyes did you have? How could you be deceived by a woman like that?”
Maeve didn’t have a good appearance. Her figure was not good as well. A woman like her was normally good at scheming. However, she could only deceive idiots.
“It was my fault.”
Even though Shawn was stubborn, he still had to admit his mistake. This time, it was all thanks to Ryder, otherwise…
However, Ryder had never interacted with him. Besides, they looked down on each other. Shawn wondered why Ryder helped him.
“Because of your sister.”
Ryder didn’t hide it. It was unnecessary for Shawn to thank him. He just promised Marina.
“Marina, have you noticed that something was wrong with Maeve a long time ago?”
Shawn recalled that at her father’s birthday Marina really looked down on Maeve. At that time, he thought that it was a quarrel between women because they were in the same dress, which made her dissatisfied.
So was it not the case?
“Yes.”
Marina smiled. It was time to make Shawn alert.
Marina took out the materials she had prepared and handed them to Shawn. “This is Maeve’s information. After knowing that you like her, I went to find a private detective to investigate her.”
Marina was shocked later!
The original text didn’t tell much about Maeve’s family background, so Marina thought that Maeve had no parents, but it turned out that she had adoptive parents.
The adoptive parents adopted Maeve. Although their purpose was impure, they raised her well and sent her to school.
After she heard about the real purpose of her adoptive parents, she took out all the savings in her family to escape, and the plan she made was meticulous. For this reason, she hid for a year and made a fake ID card.
Maeve did not make any mistakes at all in the process.
The reason why she was able to work in the Duncan Group was that she tricked her best friend, a girl who treated her very well.
The job should have been that girl’s, and on the first day of the work, the girl fell down the stairs and had a serious fracture. Maeve then recommended herself and replaced that girl.
In her first year in the group, she never went home early than nine o’clock in the evening and worked overtime to help her colleagues.
She had her goals, schemes, and she was ruthless.
Shawn really wasn’t a match for Maeve.
“She never asked me for any luxury. She didn’t treat me differently.”
Knowing the truth, Shawn was in a lot of pain. His ex-girlfriends all went to him for money, but Maeve was different. She worked hard, which attracted his attention.
“Yes, she doesn’t want those. How can those satisfy her appetite? What Maeve wants is the entire White Group, and she can send you to jail.”
Marina hit the point. It was time to wake up her brother. If the dosage this time was not enough, Shawn would be fooled by Maeve again in the future. Then the White family would not have a good life.