Savannah marched into the study room in a rush. Once she opened the door, Charles looked up from his work astonishingly. “Savannah? Why are you here?”
“Charles, I have to tell you something!” Savannah closed the door shut and gritted her teeth. “I just found out today that Valeria is not Ronald Brown’s child!”
“No way…” Charles jumped in shock when he heard that. “Who told you that?”
“Dixie and Ashley told me this. They said that Ronald Brown is infertile.” Savannah sucked in a breath. “D*mn it! If it were true, could Valeria be Archer’s child? Does it mean that Natalie cheated on her husband and had an affair with Archer? She has gone overboard!”
“We haven’t figured out the truth yet. Why are you so anxious?” Charles looked at Savannah in distaste.
“Do you really believe what Dixie and Ashley said? If they were just trying to mess with you, you’d be a fool who was played by them.”
“Charles, think about Valeria’s appearance. Don’t you think that she doesn’t look like Ronald at all?”
“That’s true!” Charles frowned. “Valeria looks nothing like him. Instead, I think her mouth and nose looks a little like Archer. Could it be true?”
Charles was stunned too when he recalled Valeria’s appearance as he had never thought about this before, nor suspected her birth father. But as he compared it now, he found that there was definitely something odd about it. “If Valeria really is Archer’s daughter, what are you going to do about it?”
“I won’t let her off easily! I will definitely make her pay! That b*tch Natalie. How dare she seduce Archer and give birth to that evil spawn. If I had not pretended to be pregnant then, they might have been married happily now. I finally got her out of the way, but she still had the audacity to have an affair with Archer and give birth to a child. Trust me when I say I’ll kill that child and bury her with her mom!”
Seeing how angry Savannah was, Charles coughed softly and said, “If you can really prove that Valeria is Archer’s child, I know what we can do to teach her a lesson.”
“What’s your plan?”
“Isn’t your child as handsome as William? We can deal with all three of them then. We can make Valeria and Raymond a pair so that we can separate her and William. With this, we’ll be taking revenge on both Archer and Natalie. If she knew that her son and daughter are together, hah! She might even jump out of her coffin!”
Savannah had to admit that Charles was really vicious. She gave him a thumbs-up and said, “Charles, you and your brilliant ideas. Alright, let’s do this. I’ll find a way to get Raymond interested in her.”
“No! You have to get them together, not get him interested in her. Raymond and William are close with each other, so he would never touch William’s girlfriend. You’ll have to think of something else to bring them together.”
Charles smiled insidiously. “But, if you do this, it would mean that you’ll have to go against everyone. You’d better think this through. You’ll have to choose between your title in the Saunders family and revenge.”
“I want revenge! I’ll ruin them!” Savannah said evilly. “I have an idea. I could get Ashley to do the dirty job. I’ll leave it all to her.”
Meanwhile, William and Valeria had a crazy night in the luxurious bedroom on the yacht. The next morning, they left after having their breakfast.
Bobby was already waiting at the beach with the car when they arrived. Then, William opened the door for Valeria to get in and said, “Bobby will send you to the office. I won’t be going with you.”
“Where are you going, then?”
“I’m heading home first. Besides, I have to bring our documents back too.”
“Does your dad know about our marriage registration? You won’t get into an argument with him, right?” Valeria asked worriedly.
“Marcus has informed the people at the bureau to keep our registration a secret so my dad won’t find out about it. I’ll head over there and put on a show!”
Seeing William’s smiling face, Valeria was still worried. “Don’t go too far. He’s still your father after all.”
“Alright. Am I that unreliable? You should go now. I will be treating Raymond to dinner tonight at Wolf Group, you should come too. Don’t tell Lamont and Braelynn about it, just the few of us will do.”
“Okay!” Valeria nodded. Lamont was strongly against their relationship, so she had to keep their marriage registration a secret from him. Of course, because of this, she couldn’t tell Braelynn about it either.
After seeing Bobby and Valeria leave, William started his car and left too.
Meanwhile, in the Howard family’s estate, Hayden took a stroll in the garden and had a round of morning excercise after he’d gotten out of bed. Soon, he was all covered in sweat.
Then, Lucas came forward and gave him a towel. Hayden wiped off the sweat on his forehead and said, “I’m getting old. I can’t exercise as much now!”
Lucas smiled and said, “I think you’re the same as before. Nothing has changed.”
“Stop trying to flatter me. I know my body well.” Hayden sighed and said, “Is there any news from William?”
“No.”
“How about Valeria? Is there anything about her?”
“Lamont is looking for Miss Brown too. I think… she might have gone somewhere to mend her broken heart.”
Hayden nodded. “It’s good that they’ve separated. I was worried that they would never! William is stubborn, he might not want to break up with her and not let her go easily… I’m really worried.”
Lucas smiled and said, “Miss Brown is obviously someone who knows what’s good for her. She wouldn’t want Sir William to hate her in the future, right?”
“That’s true…” Hayden shook his head. “By the way, I need you to arrange for someone to investigate on something. Go find out why William is not using my money.”
“Okay. I’ll investigate on this matter.” Lucas nodded and said. “Sir, I have a wild guess. Could it be that William has another business himself? He’s a smart child. I’d always believed that he’s not as useless as he looks.”
“I was thinking the same thing last night. William is really smart, how could he let himself turn into a useless nobody?” Hayden nodded.
“Although Charles has been suppressing him and luring him to the wrong direction, I don’t believe that he’ll just waste his life like this. I hope everything is fine for him, so I can leave the company in his hands. By then, no matter how evil Charles is, he won’t be able to do anything to William.”
As they were in the midst of their conversation, a servant came hurriedly and said, “Sir! Sir William is back!”
“William is back?” Hayden was stunned for a moment, but he quickly came to his senses. He frowned and chided, “So what if he’s back? Why are you so flustered?”
“When he came back, he got angry and he… he smashed your favorite antique vase!”
“What?” Hayden’s favorite vase was worth a fortune and he’d put in a lot of effort to secure it. But now, as he heard that it was smashed by William, Hayden was so angry that he almost jumped in rage, “That d*mned child!”