Paisley was shot in the chest, so she fell to the ground immediately. However, Aurora kept pulling the trigger at Paisley while laughing insanely.
When the nearby patrol officers heard the gunshots, they rushed over. At that time, Aurora had already fired all the bullets in her gun.
Then, she knelt on the ground and raised her hands as the police took her away. However, Danya immediately pounced on Paisley, who was in a pool of blood, and exclaimed, “Someone! Anyone! Please save Miss Anthony!”
Soon, an ambulance with a roaring siren immediately rushed Paisley to the hospital. Even though Aurora had fired all her bullets on Paisley, her injuries were not fatal. Thus, the doctors who managed to save her life are giving her some emergency treatment.
However, the first thing that Paisley needed to do after she woke up was to think about how she could pay off Ornard’s debts. If she couldn’t afford to pay off those debts, she could only go to jail in return.
Soon, the news that Ornard, Angel, and Paisley had gotten into trouble one after another spread throughout the wealthy families. Thus, every one of the rich and powerful families was talking about this issue these past few days.
After all, the two brilliant children of the Anthony family had been sent to prison one after another. However, this didn’t affect the Anthony family’s reputation greatly as Henry had already kicked Paisley out of the family a long time ago.
Furthermore, everyone in the Laban family had died a clean death, and everyone was surprised that all of them had been wiped out.
After all, when they thought about all the evil things that Ornard had done, they couldn’t help but think that this was karma. His family had lost all their assets because he was too ruthless and merciless. Hence, God has punished him this way. However, only Leonard sneered when he heard this.
This had nothing to do with karma! Ornard ended up in this state, not because of fate, but because he was useless. Hence, he had lost to William.
Leonard had always thought that Angel was a child of the Floyd family. Now, he had finally found out her real identity.
In the past, Leonard had never taken Angel seriously. Now that Angel, who was a fake child of the Floyd family, had died, the Floyd family had no other heirs except for William. Hence, the one target he had to deal with was William.
However, Leonard was a little afraid when he saw how powerful William was. From now on, he had to make every move carefully so that he would not end up the same way as Ornard did.
During this period of time, Leonard had been secretly observing Abbie as he had always been worried about her. Hence, other than observing Abbie while he was interacting with her, Leonard had also installed a surveillance system on Abbie’s phone as he wanted to see what she would do in private.
But, Abbie had done nothing weird so far. Occasionally, she would search the net to read the news and watch some videos, but she had never done anything that raised his suspicion.
Furthermore, she seemed to rely on Leonard a lot, and she wanted him to accompany her everywhere.
Hence, Leonard slowly put down his guard against Abbie. Soon, the child in Abbie’s belly was about five months ago, so Leonard brought her to do a pregnancy check-up.
The baby was growing normally. Furthermore, once the doctor had done an ultrasound, he told Leonard that the baby was a girl.
Once Leonard heard that the child was a girl, he was relieved. If Abbie was pregnant with a boy, he would be afraid of the child, so he wouldn’t dare to allow Abbie to give birth to the child.
Now that he was sure that the child was a girl, Leonard wasn’t too worried. After all, Azalea was pregnant with a boy, and he could confirm that the Davis family would not care about a daughter if they already knew that they had a son.
Moreover, Leonard had always thought that boys were smarter than girls. Hence, if Abbie’s child was a boy, he would probably inherit Michael’s intelligence, which would cause trouble for Leonard in the future.
However, girls were different as they were soft-hearted. If he treated her well, she would stay loyal to him. Hence, she would not affect him in any way even though she found out about his past.
Hence, after the check-up, Leonard and Abbie packed up their things and got ready to return to their home country. After all, Leonard needed to set up a business back there so that he could get whatever advantages he had and fight against William.
Meanwhile, back in Michael’s law firm, Francis pushed the door open with a smile. Michael looked up from behind the desk and saw Francis nodding with a fake smile. “Morning!”
On the other hand, Francis had long gotten used to Michael’s attitude. He walked to the spacious sofa in the office and sat down before ordering Michael’s assistant around, “Hey! Johnny!”
“Wow! You really treat this place like your home, huh?” A sarcastic gaze flashed through Michael’s eyes as he said these words.
After that, Francis smiled and said, “Of course, you and I are already family. Once our plan succeeds, I will be your father-in-law.”
“Well, the plan hasn’t succeeded yet, right?”
“It’ll all be over soon!” Francis said with a smile, “I have bought all the stocks in your hand. I will hold a board meeting in the Davis family to announce this news soon.”
“When will the rest of the money be transferred into my account?” Michael asked.
“Oh yes, I came here to discuss this money with you.” Francis took a sip of tea before continuing, “If you want the money in cash, to be honest, I can’t give you such a huge sum or money right now.”
“What? You can’t afford this sum of money? Is this deal off them?” Michael raised his voice and said.
“Hey, calm down, I haven’t finished speaking yet. I’ve thought of a way to compromise with you. I plan to let you take over on of the companies under Davis family.”
“Hah! You can’t be giving me a company that’s currently making losses, right?” Michael smiled faintly.
“Of course not! I’m giving you a company that has been doing well under the Davis group. I wanted to give this company to Evelyn as a wedding gift, but she didn’t get married in the end. Hence, I decided to give this company to you first.”
After saying that, Francis opened his briefcase and took out some documents and reports, and handed them to Michael. “Take a look first. I swear on my reputation that you won’t be on a losing end of this deal.”
Well, Michael didn’t believe in Francis’ personality and reputation. Hence, he took over the documents and information before taking some time to look over them carefully. Indeed, the company was profitable, and it was making a lot of profits too!
When Francis saw Michael reading the documents seriously, he sat to the side and said, “I know that you’re interested in expanding in this field. Hence, it breaks my heart, but I’m giving you this company. Look, I’m already very sincere, so please don’t disappoint me, Michael.”
Was Francis watching his every move? Michael thought. However, he raised his head and replied, “Mr. Gurney, we need to talk about this clearly. You are not giving me this company willingly. You’re doing this because you owe me money, so you’re using this company as collateral, and you’re not giving me this company. This means that I don’t owe you a favour at all.”
A hint of embarrassment flashed across Francis’ face when he heard this. He wanted to take the opportunity to win over Michael by using the company as payment. However, the latter didn’t fall into this trap at all.
He chuckled and said, “Hey! We’re family, so we should work together! Michael, Azalea’s baby is almost five months old now. Once we settled this issue, I hope that you can fulfill your promise. After all, I hope that you acknowledge me as your father-in-law someday.”
“Nah, there’s no hurry. Let’s settle the problems that we have first. Azalea and her child are safe and sound over there. Don’t worry!” Michael pointed at the document without moving and said, “Mr. Gurney you can sign these documents first! After you sign them, my shares will also be transferred to your name.”
After hearing this, Francis picked up the pen and signed his name. He also chopped the document using his private and company seals. Once Michael had verified that it was real, he also chopped and signed the documents as well.
Once he was done, he put the documents into the safe and reached out to Francis. “Let’s work well together then!”