But Mr. Howard couldn’t do anything about Callum, nor could he afford to offend Callum!
A few minutes later, Callum stood up from his seat. “Mr. Howard, we won’t sign this contract.”
Mr. Howard immediately became anxious, asking, “Mr. Finnegan, didn’t we agree on this before…”
Callum sneered, “You said you’d play a trick on me? David, you think I’m a fool?”
David turned pale when he heard this. Was Callum able to see through the trap clause he had hidden in the contract?
“No, Mr Finnegan…”
David followed Callum from the room all the way to the club entrance, still trying to turn things around, while Callum, who was originally heading to the parking lot, was walking down the street instead.
Under a big tree a few hundred meters away from the private club, a sad song came into the ears of the group. “You only need the light when it’s burning low. Only miss the sun when it starts to snow…”
When Rory saw who was singing, his mouth opened in surprise. Why would Aurelia perform for money on the streets?
In order to please Callum, David took out a wad of dollars from his wallet and threw it into the iron box while his eyes were fixed on Aurelia. The singing stopped abruptly.
Because it was a large sum of money…
David felt everyone’s gaze upon him and told Aurelia, who was holding a guitar, with a smug face, “Sing a song for Mr. Finnegan. If you sing well, and Mr. Finnegan is happy, the money in my hand will be yours!”
Aurelia looked at the man standing upright beside her with her beautiful eyes that were about to throw a fit. She wanted to refuse, but as if she had thought of something, she suddenly smiled.
“Okay, Mr. Finnegan. This song is for you!”
Some people around had already recognized Callum and were screaming at his charming look.
Callum looked at Aurelia’s smiling eyes and had a bad feeling. Before he could say no, Aurelia immediately played the guitar and started to sing.
Aurelia skipped the lyrics in the beginning and started singing the climax of the song. “My warmth and your indifference make love foggy. If a love drawn on a foggy window is blurry or clearer, what kind of man are you? What kind of man are you? Watching her go without asking a question…”
At the end of the song, there were only a few words. “What kind of man are you?”
The atmosphere around them had changed a lot. David didn’t expect Aurelia to do something like this. Seeing her sing to Callum, ‘What kind of man are you’ made David frightened and helpless.
But Aurelia was still singing while twisting her body rhythmically, as if she didn’t know who she had offended. Callum lowered his head and pinched his brows. Without looking up, he pointed at Aurelia and ordered Rory, “I know she can swim. Rory, now, find a deserted place and bury her alive!”
He had a premonition that if he couldn’t take care of this woman today, he would be playing right into her hands!
What? Buried alive?
The crowd suddenly became quiet. Others might just talk big, but Callum never. People who had come to watch the farce immediately dispersed when they saw Callum’s burly bodyguards showing up.
Rory panicked and hesitated for a few seconds. In order not to let Callum regret it in the future, he felt that he had to take action!
“Mr. Finnegan, the woman you are about to bury alive is called Aurelia!”
Callum looked at Rory like he was an idiot. Had this Rory lost his mind? Of course he knew who she was. Did he need Rory to remind him?
Aurelia realized that Callum was really going to deal with her, so she quickly hung the guitar around her neck, pulled Liana, who was standing there in a daze, and ran! Before running, she forgot to crouch down and hold a stack of money.
Then she accidentally heard Rory say…
Rory saw the bodyguard approaching, coughed lightly and told Callum calmly, “Mrs. Finnegan’s first name is also Aurelia!”
“So what if…”
The remaining words were left unsaid. Callum’s expression suddenly changed.
Watching Callum’s expression change from indifference to astonishment, then shock, and disbelief made Rory feel amused. He had never seen so many expressions on Callum’s face.
Knowing that her identity had been exposed, Aurelia let go of the confused Liana, turned back, and waved to Callum. “I’m dumping you, Callum. Remember to sign the divorce papers!”
Callum pointed at Aurelia as she ran away, his hands shaking with anger, and couldn’t say a word.
Aurelia was actually… his wife?
After finally recovering from the shock, Callum kicked Rory in the leg.
Rory whined, knowing Callum wouldn’t let him off the hook.
“I’m not done with you!”
With that, Callum strode to his car, got in, stepped on the accelerator and drove out of the parking lot.
When the car passed by Rory, Callum said, “You’ll go to the construction site tomorrow! Don’t let me see you in the office!”
The next moment, the car disappeared from his sight.
Rory felt like crying as he looked at the guitar bag and the money box left on the ground by Liana and Aurelia.
Liana was being pulled by Aurelia and was running breathlessly. Finally, she was so tired that she sat on a bench by the roadside, panting heavily.
Liana was so frightened just now that she didn’t hear clearly what Rory and Callum said at the end. All she could hear was two words ‘bury alive’.
Thinking of this, she tightly grasped Aurelia’s hand, who was also panting, and said, “Aurelia, take this… money and run for your life!” After repeatedly provoking Callum, Aurelia was finished in Evercrest.
Aurelia waved her hand. She guessed that after Callum knew that she was his wife, he would divorce her immediately and would not bury her alive. If he killed her, he couldn’t finalize their divorce.
Aurelia wasn’t thinking straight at this moment. She forgot that whether she was alive or dead wouldn’t affect Callum’s decision.
“Callum won’t do that. He’s a grown man and he’s not that petty.” Now that he had already known her identity, he probably wouldn’t kill his wife.
Thinking of the man’s sharp eyes again, Aurelia suddenly felt scared for some unknown reason.
Aurelia hailed a cab. Before she got in, her cell phone rang. It was Alfred.