His subordinate dared not look at him and continued, “I also found out that the doctor in the hospital received bribes from Miss Lucia. During the kidney transplant surgery, Miss Lucia told the doctor not to rescue Mrs. Murray and said that she wanted Mrs. Murray dead.”
Wicked women could be very frightening.
“You can leave.” Jacob appeared calm on the surface.
Just as the subordinate was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something. “One more thing.”
Jacob frowned. “Say it.”
Additional things that he found out meant additional harm he did to Katherine.
“Miss Lucia previously bribed a doctor and asked him to go to Mrs. Murray’s sickroom and rape her. She also asked him to insist afterward that it was Mrs. Murray who seduced him.”
Jacob pressed his thin lips together and Lucia’s expressionless face appeared in his mind. She didn’t seem to care about it all and didn’t even bother explaining.
In fact, it was because she felt that even if she explained, he wouldn’t believe it.
“Okay.”
After his subordinate left, Jacob repeatedly read the results in his hand many times, and his heart sank to the bottom.
It was all because he believed Lucia too easily. He always believed whatever Lucia said, but he never believed Katherine’s explanation once.
Before that, he didn’t understand how much suffering Katherine went through that she was so decisive in stabbing herself.
Now he understood.
Engulfed in remorse and pain, Jacob leaned back in his chair and felt pain everywhere in his body, especially his heart. It was as if a piece of his heart was removed.
In the next two days, it was as if Jacob disappeared from the world. He didn’t go to work and when the secretary went to his villa, no one answered the door no matter how many times he rang the doorbell and knocked on the door. Jacob’s phone was also turn off when the secretary tried to reach him by phone.
Reluctantly, the secretary went to Jacob’s mother, Laura.
Laura frowned when she learned that Jacob didn’t go to work for two days, and immediately took people to Jacob’s villa.
According to the guard, Jacob didn’t go outside these days, so he must be in the villa.
Laura had the keys to the villa. When she opened the door, she saw the curtains closed inside. It was dark and full of the smell of cigarettes and alcohol.
Laura frowned and coldly ordered the others, “You guys wait outside.” Then she walked in alone and closed the door.
As soon as she entered, Laura drew the curtains and opened the windows. The wine bottle on the ground almost tripped her over.
Looking at the cigarette butts and wine bottles on the floor, she looked for Jacob, who was sitting on the floor and leaning on the sofa. Seeing him disheveled and decadent while holding a bottle of wine in his left hand and an unfinished cigarette in his right, Laura was even more furious.
“Jacob, what are you doing?!”
Jacob lifted his eyelids and calmly glanced at Laura. He slowly lifted his hand and smoked, “Why are you here?”
His voice was hoarse and a little unpleasant to the ear.
“Am I supposed to wait for a few days and come then to collect your body?” Laura suppressed her anger and sat on the sofa. Even though it was a mess around her, she still sat elegantly and looked coldly at Jacob, who was sitting on the ground.
“Don’t tell me that you starved yourself, indulged in tobacco and alcohol, and didn’t go to work just for a woman.”
Jacob’s eyes were filled with pain. Hearing what Laura said, he looked down and closed his eyes. “I killed her.”
“Great!” Laura reprimanded. “What’s the point of regretting now? Just a woman, you let your emotions carry you away too easily! I told you not to spend too much time with Lucia. You didn’t listen. I told you a long time ago that she’s a deceiving bitch. If you didn’t insist on listening to her, my grandson would… OK, that’s it!”
In the end, he was her son, so Laura’s tone eased a bit. “Anyway, it’s over. Now that you’ve seen Lucia’s true character, just tell her to get lost. Afterward, mom will help you find an upper-class woman. You must not lose your mind for a woman this time. Since Katherine is dead, it won’t make a difference no matter how much you regret it. Cheer up!”
Jacob sat silently and felt hopeless.
Hearing no response from Jacob, Laura was a little angry. She got up, grabbed the alcohol and tobacco from his hand, and threw them aside. She reached out and pulled him up. “You better recover from this, you hear me? Jacob! Men should focus on their careers. How could you abandon work for a woman?”
Jacob saw how furious Laura was. After a few seconds of silence, he nodded. “Okay.”
“Go upstairs and clean yourself up.” Laura couldn’t stand seeing Jacob’s decadent and sloppy appearance.
Jacob walked upstairs. Seeing him behave as if he had lost his soul, Laura felt even angrier.
How could those two women turn her son this way? Next time, she must find someone who was more well-behaved and wouldn’t cause a mess like this.
When Jacob finished cleaning and went downstairs, the house had been cleaned under Laura’s orders. He didn’t smell any cigarette or alcohol, as if nothing ever happened and what happened in the past stays in the past.
But how could he forget what was already engraved in his memory?
Jacob did not go to work immediately. Instead, he went to the hospital first.
There was one person he needed to deal with.