Simon Smith stumbled home, drunk. He had just sat down when Patel, his assistant, burst in. “Sir, the project, the project has fallen through!”
The project Patel was referring to was the collaboration Simon Smith had initiated with the Owen family three days ago. The original partner of the Owens had backed out. Simon Smith had taken on this mess to help Hollie Owen, only to find out that the Owen family was involved in shady dealings. Now they were being hunted down by the entire city, and the Smith family was implicated as well.
Calls kept coming in for Simon Smith. The doorbell rang. As Patel opened the door, Mrs. Smith stormed in, furious. She slapped Simon Smith hard across the face. “You idiot! Get down on your knees!”
Mrs. Smith had been abroad until yesterday when she saw the news and rushed back. She never expected that the son she had raised would do something like this.
“I told you long ago that Hollie Owen was no good! How could you do something so foolish for her?”
Mrs. Smith was so enraged she nearly fainted. She had always liked me. When I married Simon Smith, she was the first to support us. But life is unpredictable. She never imagined that just a few years later, our relationship would turn out like this. After all, she had watched me grow up too. At that moment, she felt immense regret. Had she known it would come to this, she would never have let me suffer.
“What can I say to you? Laura is your legitimate wife, and what is Hollie Owen? Just a mistress from the start! You knew how hard Laura had it in the Burke family. Why have you become like this?”
Simon Smith knelt on the floor, biting his lip. “I know I was wrong, Mom. I really know I was wrong. I want to see her… I really know I was wrong…”
The words of James Porter and Mrs. Smith echoed in his mind. He was in excruciating pain. He hadn’t expected to see James Porter looking like this after death. It was a harsh reality.
But what was the point of realizing his mistakes now?
“What good does it do to know you were wrong now? The urgent thing is to help the police catch Hollie Owen! You need to give Laura a proper explanation!”