William did not say anything and only looked at Hayden silently.
Hayden continued, “After Savannah died, I’ve been thinking about this for the past few days. How could she have killed your mother? If she’s as smart as she is, she wouldn’t have died like that. There must be some other reason for what happened back then. There’s definitely someone else helping her.”
William remained silent, and Hayden took a deep breath.
“After thinking about it for so many days, I finally understood. Raelyn is capable! Your mother died of poison, and I heard that Raelyn and Declan smuggled that specific poison into the country. They were the chief culprit! Your mother’s death is definitely related to Raelyn and the Saunders family! She died in their hands. There is no doubt!”
“Dad! Calm down!” William comforted him when he saw his agitated expression.
“I can’t calm down! William, I know that you like Valeria, and I know your feelings, but please, they killed your mother. You won’t let the enemy go just because of love, will you?”
“Dad, don’t worry. I won’t let go of the enemy.”
“Then are you promising me that you’ll deal with the Saunders and Anderson family?” Hayden insisted on getting an answer.
“Dad, Raelyn is the only enemy here. It has nothing to do with the Saunders family.”
“How could it have nothing to do with them? Raelyn is their daughter and the daughter-in-law of the Anderson family. Would they stand by and do nothing if you deal with her? So, for safety’s sake, you must attack the whole family.”
“Just take care of yourself, dad. As for the revenge, we’ll talk about it after you recover.”
“No, I can’t do that. Everything that happened has something to do with the Saunders family. Back then, it was Archer who seduced Savannah and let her take risks for love. In the end, Raelyn took advantage of Savannah to attack your mother and Natalie. Without her, all of this would not have happened. In short, your mother’s death has something to do with everyone in the Saunders family.”
William looked at him with a frown. The high fever made him seem like a completely different person for he was being unreasonable.
Since he had no way to argue with a sick man, he just went along with his words and said, “Well, I will take revenge, don’t worry.”
“Since you’re taking revenge, you have to come up with a plan. First of all, you have to break up with Valeria.” Hayden wasn’t joking.
This again. This was always his goal. William smiled bitterly and said, “And then?”
“Break up with her first, and we’ll talk about the rest later.”
Seeing that there was no room for discussion, William sighed and said, “Alright, eat something first. We’ll talk about it after I do it.”
“Don’t trick me, I’m not a fool. If you don’t break up with Valeria, I’ll go on a hunger strike!” Hayden looked as if he was ready to die. “Either way, I’m too ashamed to continue living. What’s the point of living? I might as well die peacefully. You’re hoping for me to die, aren’t you? You can do whatever you want after I’m dead and live with the Saunders family, am I right?”
“Dad, how can you think of me like that?”
“As long as you have me in your heart, you have to break up with Valeria. You must take action against the Saunders family and get revenge for your mother!”
“I will. Don’t worry!”
“Don’t trick me. You knew that Savannah didn’t have the ability to do it alone, so you also doubted Raelyn, didn’t you? In that case, why didn’t you attack Raelyn? Why did you stop? When you dealt with Declan, you had a chance to deal with her, but you stopped for Valeria, didn’t you?”
“Dad, it’s not what you think. I have no evidence to prove that it was Raelyn who did it. There is no proof for what happened at that time…”
“If you don’t have evidence, why did you attack Savannah? You forced her to get divorced and let her get bullied by Ronald. Do you dare to say that it wasn’t you who did all this?”
“Dad, Savannah attacked me first. She was the one who schemed against me and Valeria, and she was even prepared to scheme against you. Why are you still protecting her?”
“If Valeria didn’t exist, none of this would have happened! Savannah was blinded by her love for Archer and helped Raelyn kill your mother. Now you’ve been blinded by your love for Valeria and attacked Savannah. No one in the Saunders family is good! You must break up with Valeria!”
“I know! I will break up with her.”
“I want you to break up right now! Call her immediately!” He insisted.
William looked at his cracked lips and pale face and sighed in his heart.
He couldn’t provoke Hayden any longer. The doctor had said that he shouldn’t be stimulated in any way with his condition.
In order not to provoke him, he took out his phone and dialed Valeria’s number. As soon as she said hello, he said quickly, “Valeria, let’s break up!”
“Huh?” She was confused and thought she heard wrong.
“I can’t go on like this with you. Let’s break up today. This is the last time I’ll call you. Don’t call me again. That’s it, I’ll hang up!”
Seeing that William had really called Valeria to break up with her, Hayden finally felt at ease.
Valeria, on the other hand, was bewildered by the phone call. She immediately called him again, but he rejected her call.
She tried again but her call was still rejected. She frowned and asked, “What’s wrong with William?”
Braelynn brought some documents for Valeria to sign. Seeing her dazed face, she couldn’t help but ask, “What happened?”
“William just called me to break up, and he told me not to call him again in the future. What’s going on? Is today April Fool’s Day?”
“It’s not April Fool’s Day,” Braelynn replied.
“That’s weird? Why is he doing this? He literally just told me that my chicken soup tasted good. What is this change in attitude?” She rubbed her forehead. “Could it be that his father is awake?”
“Hayden woke up, so he called to break up with you? What logic is this?”
“His father hates me so much, and now that Savannah is dead, he will definitely hate me even more. He’ll push all the blame onto me and force William to break up with me.”
“Isn’t… isn’t this a little too much?”
“It has to be like this! I thought things would get better, but I didn’t expect it to be like this. What should I do now?” She had a bitter expression on her face.
Braelynn sighed and said, “Hayden is also a kind of thing. What is he thinking? What does this have to do with you? What does he have against your relationship?”
“Sucks to be me.” Valeria was also not in the mood to work. She randomly signed the documents with a sad face.
Braelynn gave her some advice. “Maybe Hayden is holding a grudge? So, he’s doing this to make him feel better. If that’s the case, why don’t we ask Gavin and Archer to talk to him? They’re friends, right?”
“I don’t know if it’d be useful.” She sighed and called Natalie.
When Natalie heard that William had called to break up, she guessed that it was Hayden’s idea. “I’ll tell your father about it right now.”