Chapter 270
It all started with a coincidence
Not long ago, Joseph brought one of his sugar babies to a houry jewelry store, intending to spoil her with a new necklace. But while he was there, he happened to lock eyes with a sales associate
Joseph had been with countless women. He was a habitual fliri, always chasing after anyone who caught his eye. That day, he dropped over $200,000 on a necklace for his sugar baby just to impress her and maybe to flaunt his wealth in front of the sales associate.
When his sugar baby went to the restroom, Joseph took the opportunity to ask the sales associate for her number,
The very night, the two of them ended up in bed.
On Valentine’s Day, Joseph booked a romantic suite and invited her over again. After they were done, he casually tossed a credit card onto the bed and said, “Happy Valentine’s Day, baby. Go buy yourself something nice.”
The woman smiled sweetly as she took the card, then leaned in with a playful tone “You know, Joseph, you never put any thought into gifts. It’s always just money. Earlier today, this guy bought a Valentine’s limited–edition necklace for his girlfriend–cost him a million dollars. I was so jealous. He most really love her.”
didn’t even get mad as the word
Joseph snorted, lounging against the headboard with a cigarette between his fingers, looking pleased and relaxed. He didn’t even
comment
Instead, he smiled faintly and said, “There’s over a million on that card. Buy whatever you want. When you’ve got money, who needs love?”
She laid her head on his chest and purred, “I was just saying ”
Joseph tapped the ash from his cigarette, his expression turning cold. “Don’t ever mention that word–love–again.”
“Got it,” she murmured obediently.
At the time, Joseph didn’t give the conversation a second thought
woman’s
But not long after Valentine’s Day, something strange
nge happened. Out
Out of nowhere, Sean began investigating him with laser focus
One of Joseph’s men, Chester, made a small mistake and was immediately exposed by Sean’s team.
Chester was quickly arrested, and the shell companies under his name were seized.
Enraged, Joseph launched multiple assassination attempts against Sean. All of them failed. He lost men, money, and leverage.
Desperate, he decided to revert to an old strategy–targeting the people around Sean.
Originally, his next move was to go after the actress linked to Sean in the tabloids. But Vivian wamed him that the woman was actually Sean’s distant cousin. The rumors were just a publicity stunt.
That was when Joseph remembered something.
Back when Charlotte and Sean first broke up, he had someone tailing her. He had seen her drinking alone, crying, muttering that Sean was a heartless jerk who used and abandoned her. She didn’t seem like she was pretending, She genuinely had no idea the actress was Sean’s cousin.
He recalled their breakup happened right after Charlotte’s father was nearly killed,
He had been played
Then it clicked On Valentine’s night, the woman in his bed had mentioned a man who bought a million–dollar necklace for his girlfriend. In Jersey City,
nly a handful of people had that kind of money.
mediately called the
he woman back to ask for details.
The event had lett a strong impression on her, and she had even looked into the buyer out of curiosity. So when Josephi asked, she replied without hesitation, “He looked like he was in his thirties, maybe around five–foot–ten, skinny bald. His last name was Long “
“And the delivery address? The recipiend ?*
– It was a lanuary villa in Jersey City. The recipient’s name was Miss Iley =
Joseph’s expression darkened.
He was almost certain that Miss Riley was Charlotte Riley
