Chapter 295
“I’m sorry, Lottie…” Zac took a step forward, reaching out
ching put to touch Charlotte’s arm, but she slapped his hand away
“Don’t touch me!” she snapped, glaring at him with fury in her eyes.
Zac’s gaze darkened, his face twisted in pain. “It’s my Lault. Ladidn’t meet Joseph’s expectations, I failed to break you two aquart. If I had succeeded in separating you and Sean back then, Joseph work’ve gotten what he wanted. He wouldn’t have come after your gone after your dad and Jodio, ”
Charlotte stared at him in disbelief, “What is this guy even bring himself?” she wondered.
She let out a disbelieving laugh. “So now you’re apologizing became you didn’t manage to break up me and Sean?”
“… that’s not what I meant, Lottie Zac stammered, his eyes flickering
Charlotte’s emotions were surging. Her eyes were red at the corners, her voice rising with anger. “My sister was kidnapped by Joseph’s ment We had a chance to get her back, but thanks to you reporting it to the police, they showed up and blew everything. Now she’s been taken to Atlantis!”
Zac’s eyes flow open in shock. “What? Jodie was kidnapped too?”
Charlotte’s voice trembled with rage. “You’re seriously telling me Vivian didn’t tell you to call the cops? Do you even know what Josephi sald to Sean on the phone? He said if the police showed up, he’d kill the hostage on the spot!
“She knew. Vivian knew. She told you to call the police because she wanted Joseph to kill me. She used you, Zact Don’t you get it?”
Zac stood there, stunned. His face drained of color as the weight of what he had almost done hit him. His eyes filled with pain and pande.
“I’m sorry, Lottie. I didn’t know. If I’d loown, I never would’ve gone to the police
“That’s enough!” Charlotte shouted, cutting him off sharply. “Tell me the math–did Vivian really have nothing to do with your call?”
Zac’s jaw tightened.
- ed. His hands curled into fists at his sides.
He was on the verge of telling her the truth, but too much was weighing on his mind.
Even though Chester had been arrested, the person listed as the majority shareholder of Gibson Corporation had not been touched
The company was, for all practical purposes, already Joseph’s plaything. He might be bacle in Atlantis, but a single word from him could bring Gibson Corporation crashing down again.
Right now, the company still bore the Gibson name, but in truth, it already belonged to Joseph
weighed the risks. Gibson Corporation was his father’s life’s work it was better to keep it barely alive than see it destroyed completely.
He couldn’t afford to expose Vivian. Not yet.
“It had nothing to do with her,” Zac said, his voice hoarse.
Charlotte just looked at hin
After a few seconds, she gave a soft, bitter laugh. She said nothing else and turned to leave.
Werdy, who had been standing off in the side listening, rusland over. “Zac, are you okay? I’ll go get you an lee park
Zar shoved her away roughly, his face full of irritation. “Get out of my way.”
Furious, Zac turned on his heed and pulled out his phone, dialing as he walked.
He needed to find out whether Vivian had known what Joseph Tuld Sean !
If she had known, then she had used him
- had used him to indirectly kill the woman he loved most
se, he would never forgive her.
D
