After receiving the text message, Elizabeth hurriedly made an excuse for Mason to leave. She got in the car parked outside, then looked at the message in detail on her phone.
“Elizabeth, prepare 30 million dollars before 10 o’clock by tomorrow morning and transfer it into the account that I have given to you. Otherwise, the secret of Mason is your child will be made public immediately.”
Huh? Who knew about it?
She was so panicked as she thought that she had kept this secret very well. Why did such an accident happen at this critical moment?
She would ignore this message and then travel abroad with Mason if they had already gotten money from Charles and Savannah.
Now, they still hadn’t finished their plan, but this secret had been brought up by someone suddenly, so she couldn’t just ignore it.
If Charles knew that she already had a child but pretended to be a virgin, he would make things very difficult for her as he was so vicious.
He could even treat his wife so viciously, not to mention her!
What should she do now? It would be great if she knew who the blackmailer was.
Then, she could find a way to deal with it. No one would know the secret anymore if she could kill him before he did.
She thought about that and replied, “Give me some time to prepare because I’m broke now.”
When Ashley saw her reply, she sneered and said, “Heh! How long will it take?”
“One week!”
“That’s too long! I’ll give you three days only!”
“How about five days? I really don’t have any money.” Elizabeth was trying to extent the time.
“Alright! Don’t blame me if you still can’t give me in five days.” Ashley made a concession.
After all, she had planned to make Elizabeth’s life miserable. She would tell Charles the secret about Elizabeth and Mason once she received the money. As a result, Elizabeth would be done for!
Archer went to find Gavin after he met the nanny. Gavin was about to have dinner, but he greeted Archer when he saw that the latter was approaching him. “Have you eaten yet?”
“No!” Archer walked to the table and sat down. Then, the nanny helped him prepare the meal. Both of them lowered their heads and ate silently.
According to the Saunders family’s rules, no one was allowed to speak when eating. Gavin looked at him as he ate. Finally, he couldn’t help and say, “Speaking of which, we haven’t eaten together for a long time.”
“Yes!” Archer responded and continued to eat his meal.
Since Gavin had started the conversation, then he continued, “Why did you look for the woman who abused Raymond today?”
“I was just asking around.” Archer refused to answer further.
After that, Gavin chuckled. “Haha! Alright, let’s change the topic. Let’s talk about Valeria then. What are you going to do?”
“She won’t get back to the family unless we accept William!” Archer’s face was gloomy.
“Is there no other way? Shall I go and tell him about Valeria’s identity?”
“He must have known about this for a long time! Today, he humiliate me and didn’t respect me at all.” Archer was angry when he thought of how arrogant William had been.
“What? How dare he!” Gavin was also angry. “As a son-in-law, he should be respectful towards his in-laws. Urgh! He went too far!”
Archer lowered his head and continued to eat. However, Gavin could not eat anymore and look at Archer angrily and said, “You have a solution, don’t you? Why can’t you make things difficult for him? He’s just a libertine. Hah! Let’s see how he will live if he loses all his money!”
Archer raised his head and took a look at Gavin. He then sneered and continued to eat.
Gavin was a little angry when he knew Archer was staring at him. “What’s so funny? Am I wrong? I will call his father now to ask him to cut off William’s allowance. Hah! I don’t believe that he can still play around after that.”
Archer finished his meal and put down his chopsticks. “Nah, don’t waste time thinking about that. It’s useless.”
“Huh? What do you mean?” Gavin also stood up.
Archer walked to the living room and sat down. “Well, so far, no one could control him.”
Gavin looked at him as if he had heard a funny joke, but Archer didn’t seem to be joking. He didn’t want to mention William. Instead, he asked Gavin, “Dad, you were the one who took care of Raymond after that incident, right?”
“Yes!” He nodded. “Why did you suddenly ask about this? I thought you didn’t care about him.”
“Do you remember what happened when he was born?” Archer asked again.
“Of course.” Gavin sighed. “I know you hate me because I forced you to marry Savannah. In fact, I was going to abandon Raymond, but I changed my mind when I saw him.”
“He’s a well-behaved child, and he looks just like you. I thought that Savannah couldn’t wait any longer as she had already given birth to her child. Besides, I don’t want my grandson to become an illegitimate child. I thought that you would overcome this hurdle, but I didn’t expect you to be so stupid.”
Gavin shook his head. “Archer, Hayden and I were indeed at fault for what happened back then. We shouldn’t have forced you to break up with Natalie and marry Savannah. However, you were wrong later on. I know that the nanny didn’t cause the wounds on his body.”
“What? You know about that?”
“Of course! That b*tch did it! She wanted to use her child as an excuse for you to stay with her, but she didn’t expect it to be useless, so she vented her hatred on him. Raymond was her trump card, but he didn’t work on you, so she hated him so much!”
“Since you knew about it, why did you let her continue like this?”
“That’s why I kept him by my side. I didn’t send him abroad as you wish. I thought that the b*tch was still young, so she would change when she was older. However, I guess that it was just my wish…”
“She will never change!” Archer shook his head. “Do you know what happened last night? Raymond would have been dead without William’s help, and Valeria wouldn’t have been spared as well. The person who died in the room must be related to her. Why did she do this to her own child?”
Gavin sighed faintly and said, “You’ve ignored that b*tch for more than 20 years. She’s gone insane!”
“I don’t believe it!” Archer shook his head and said, “There must be other reasons! I must find out. She must bear the consequences of her actions!”
Gavin looked at him and said with a wry smile, “No matter what the reason is, the first thing you have to do is to get Valeria back home now! I can accept William as my son-in-law if she returns!”