“Manipulate Evelyn? What do you mean?” Archer continued to ask.
“The Gurney family and the Wolf Group are currently working on a project together. The amount is huge, so it’s inevitable that people will be jealous. My guess is that someone who hates the Gurney family or William did this. The purpose is to make the two families suspect each other so that we’ll fight among ourselves. Then they can benefit from it.” Francis was indeed smart. He had already come up with a solution last night.
It was most suitable to place the blame on his enemy. He said confidently, “The person this person had targeted at the beginning was Evelyn. His purpose was to use her to sow discord between us, but he didn’t expect that he would obtain Thomas’s mobile phone. After taking the phone, he found that Thomas was in contact with Valeria on that phone. Thus, he gave up on manipulating Evelyn and used Thomas instead. This person was good at scheming. The mobile phone was snatched from Evelyn. As soon as anything happened to Valeria, Evelyn would be the prime suspect. The Gurney family and the Wolf Group will turn against each other. This is his main purpose. So, you must not fall for this person’s trap, William!”
A sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of William’s lips after Francis finished speaking. Francis was indeed a cunning man. William had long thought that Francis would come up with this excuse, and things happened as he expected.
It was indeed a good idea to blame everything on the enemy of William or the Gurney family. After all, he had not found any concrete evidence of Evelyn scheming against Valeria. Francis had sought peace on his own accord and gave such a reasonable explanation. Even if William did not believe it, he could not fall out with him openly.
William smiled faintly as he said, “If what you said is true and it is the enemy’s doing, Ms. Gurney may be in danger in the future because that person wants us to turn against each other by using her. After all, the other party has used her once, so there can always be a second time, right? This time, it’s only the mobile phone. Next time, they might not just rob the phone. Perhaps the other party will directly attack Ms. Gurney, and then use the opportunity to slander me.”
Francis’s face turned pale. What did William mean? Was he going to make a move against Evelyn?
His cell phone rang as soon as this occurred to him. It was Evelyn. Francis hung up, but she called again. He had no choice but to get up and answer the call. Evelyn’s wail came from the other end of the phone. “Grandpa, someone beat me! Ouch…”
“What on earth is going on?” Francis thought he had heard her wrongly when Evelyn said that she had been beaten.
“I don’t know. I was driving when someone stopped me halfway. A few people got off and smashed my car. They even hit me… My hand… Ouch… It seems that one of my hands is broken…”
“Ugh… Damn it!” Francis couldn’t sit still when he heard that Evelyn was beaten, so he immediately bade goodbye. “There’s something that I have to attend to. I’ll deal with it first. I’ll ask you out to talk about this matter in detail when you’re free.”
“Sure! See you!” William was indifferent.
When Francis and Thomas left, Hayden let out a sneer. “Francis, that old geezer, is so annoying. How dare he lie to us! Does he think the Howard family is afraid of him? I can’t stand it! William, you have to come up with a plan. You can’t let Valeria be wronged like this!”
William’s expression was indifferent. “Dad, I’ve already made the arrangements. Does Francis think I’ll just let this matter go? Hehe! Will I be so forgiving? I’m afraid he was wrong!”
Francis and Thomas left the hospital and went straight to the place where Evelyn was hurt. They saw a luxury car that was smashed to pieces. There was a lot of blood on the ground, but Evelyn was nowhere to be found.
It didn’t matter if the car was smashed. After all, the Gurney family didn’t mind this amount of money. What worried Francis the most now was Evelyn’s safety.
There was so much blood on the ground. No one knew how badly she was hurt. He called her, but he couldn’t get through.
“Where’s Evelyn?” Francis was so anxious that he was pacing all over the place. “Call the police! Get them to look into this! We must find Evelyn!”
Thomas called the police, and the police only arrived half an hour later. There was no surveillance camera on the road where the accident happened, nor was there any witnesses. The police said that they would assign someone to the investigation and inform Francis if there was any news.
Francis grew more and more flustered. “What should we do? Has something happened to Evelyn? Who on earth would do this to her? Could it be that William’s retaliation?”
“William is accompanying his wife and son in the hospital. He probably doesn’t have time to do this, does he?”
“No, it’s probable!” Francis thought of what William had said before he left. He felt a chill down his spine. “That brat will seek revenge for the smallest grievance. He must be behind this! No! I have to question him face to face!”
“Now we have no evidence. What would you ask William? You can’t go to him.” Thomas stopped him. “Mr. Gurney, I think Ms. Gurney was probably sent to the hospital, wasn’t she?”
“Who sent her to the hospital? Which hospital?”
Thomas did not know the answer to his question. “We should check this out for now! There is a hospital nearby. She will be sent to the nearest hospital if someone did help to send her there.”
Francis thought that Thomas’s words made sense, so he called the Gurney family’s company and asked them to send their men to inquire about Evelyn in the three nearby hospitals.
One hour had passed but there was no news of Evelyn. Francis became more and more worried. He was concerned about Evelyn’s injury, so he arranged for his men to expand other hospitals as well.
They searched dozens of hospitals in the city. Finally, they found Evelyn in a small hospital at two o’clock in the afternoon.
Francis immediately rushed over with his men. Evelyn had already undergone the operation and was sent to the ward.
The ward was a dirty little room. When Francis arrived, he heard Evelyn screaming in the ward, “Why am I here? Who sent me to this shabby place? Where’s my phone?”
Upon hearing Evelyn’s voice, Francis heaved a sigh of relief. Thank God she was still alive. When he pushed the door open and entered, he took a step back in fear. Thomas, who was following him, got his feet stepped by Francis. He reached out to support his body as he looked inside. He was surprised by what he saw, so he screamed, “Ah…”
Thomas looked into the gap between the two of them as he stood behind Francis. He saw a bald head on the hospital bed. Her face was swollen like a balloon.
Was that Evelyn? For goodness sake! Thomas felt so funny that he almost laughed out loud. He tried his best to suppress his laughter.
Evelyn, whose face was swollen, also saw Francis. She cried out aggrievedly, “Grandpa! Why are you here so late? Why did you send me to this shitty ward? Look at this quilt, the bed is so dirty! It’s disgusting!”
Francis maintained his composure and entered the ward. “How are you?”
“It hurts! My face hurts… Ouch, my arm… It hurts so much!”
The anesthetic on Evelyn’s arm had worn off, so she let out a high-pitched wail due to the pain.
Francis’s face was gloomy. “Transfer her to the best hospital immediately! Be quick!”