Chapter 365
The person on the other end said, “Dad…”
“Don’t call me that. I don’t have a son like you,” Theo quickly retorted. The metal frame on the table reflected his cold and stern face, with even the wrinkles at the corners of his mouth tightly drawn.
Theo said, “Since you even dared to change your surname and married into that woman’s family, you were already no longer my son. Besides, you’re the president of a country now. You even arrested my god–granddaughter. Would you still mind me? Huh.”
Xander sighed. “Dad, if you’re asking for favors, shouldn’t you act like it?”
“What? Asking for favors? Are you kidding me? I’m your father, and I’m ordering you to release her!” Theo said loudly and angrily.
Everyone in the dining room downstairs could hear it. They all quietly glanced at the study upstairs.
No one dared to make a noise.
They all knew that only Xander would make Theo this angry.
Xander said, “Didn’t you just say that I wasn’t your son?”
Theo was speechless. His hand holding the phone shivered. He really wanted to hang up immediately, but then he remembered that his beloved god–granddaughter was still in Xander’s hands.
“Xander, no, dear Mr. West…” Theo gritted his teeth and said word by word.
He thought, ‘Is he really gonna let me beg him?‘
Xander said, “Dad, I know Ophelia is your god–granddaughter, and I also know she’s Kenneth’s woman. But… I’m in a role where I have my responsibilities to shoulder. This issue must be resolved as soon as possible. But I can promise you to spare her life.”
Theo thought, ‘Spare her life?‘
He tightened his grip on the phone. He was well aware of what that implied. She would stay alive, but her condition would be uncertain.
Theo thought, ‘Elia is so proud. If she ends up with a disability or suffers a lot…
He couldn’t bear to think about it.
He thought, ‘She has to come back safe and sound without any harm.
“Do you know how much she means to Kenneth? If anything happens to her, that crazy guy won’t let you off.” Seeing that his words were ineffective, Theo could only bring Kenneth up.
If there was anyone Xander was still cautious of in his position, it was Kenneth.
-Xander sighed on the other end of the phone and then looked up at the girl in the surveillance video.
He was aware of Kenneth’s current situation. Kenneth was no threat to him now.
Sensing the silence from the other end, Theo also realized the situation.
It couldn’t be changed.
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Xander said, “Dad, being in this position, I have my difficulties. bear as much as anyone else. I hope you can understand me, just as you understood Mom back then…”
“I don’t understand!” Theo yelled those words and then knocked the landline and all the books off the desk onto the floor.
He slumped back into his chair with his chest heaving heavily, feeling dizzy.
Fortunately, he had his medication within reach and quickly swallowed two fast–acting heart pills.
He never understood these people.
However, there was nothing they could do. In everyone’s eyes, their choices were right, yet only their families silently endured everything.
He just wished they could be a bit more selfish, even if just a little
Theo’s eyes turned slightly red.
After a brief silence, Xander’s voice came through the phone, “Dad, I’m sorry. Please forgive me.”
After hanging up the phone, Xander leaned back weakly against the chair.
Back then, he entered politics on his mother’s advice. Without the help of the West family, he couldn’t have become a candidate for president or competed with the Davidson family. He would only be able to watch others play the game of balancing power.
They only cared about securing their positions but didn’t take ordinary people seriously at all.
He had to do it then, to get the West family’s support and become the president. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to fulfill his mother’s last wish.
He also wouldn’t be able to make Heloria better and improve the lives of all its people. These were the things his mother and also he himself wanted to see.
He rubbed his temples and stared at the monitor in front of him for a moment.
Sensing she was being watched, Ophelia looked up again.
“Mr. West, let’s have a chat. I’ve been kept here for three hours already. You must be more anxio Ophelia’s voice was cool and indifferent, yet her words instantly changed the situation.
She was clearly the passive one, yet her words made it seem like she was the one in charge.
Three hours had passed, and public opinion must have become out of control by now.
n I am, right?”
Ophelia just hoped that Sharon had seen the message she had sent before coming here. She hoped they wouldn’t naively speak up for her and get dragged into this mess.
Xander didn’t respond to her right away but kept her waiting for a few more hours.
The lights here were too bright, making it impossible for Ophelia to rest. This wear on her willpower was the most unbearable.
After a long while, the wire outside the door was pulled open with a clanging sound.
Caleb’s bloodshot eyes suddenly snapped open.
“Ms. Spencer, Mr. West wants to see you alone,” the butler’s voice came from the doorway.
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Ophelia opened her eyes, glanced at Caleb and said, “What did Kenneth tell you to do before?”
“Follow Mrs. Sinclair’s orders completely and protect her with my life,” Caleb said in a hoarse voice.
“Alright. Leave the presidential palace later,” Ophelia instructed coldly.
Caleb said. “Mrs. Sinclair…”
Before he could finish speaking, the door opened.
Ophelia stood up from the couch and said, “If Mr. West wants to see me alone, then let Caleb leave.”
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If Caleb hadn’t insisted on coming, she would have come alone. The current situation was just as she had predicted. Keeping Caleb here would only endanger the innocent him.
The butler said, “Ms. Spencer, this is the presidential palace. You don’t get to make the decisions here.”
“Then just keep me locked up here, then.” Ophelia knew how anxious Kenneth was at the moment.
“You… You can’t even protect yourself now. Why are you worried about him?” The butler frowned at her, finding this little girl baffling.
Caleb stood in front of Ophelia, slightly lowered his head and said, “Mrs. Sinclair, even though Mr. Sinclair said to follow your instructions, he also mentioned that I should protect you at all costs.”
He knew that Ophelia was trying to keep him safe, not wanting him to face danger. However, for that very reason, he couldn’t leave her here by herself.
Just then, a tall figure blocked the doorway.
“Alright, I can promise you I won’t get anyone else involved.” Xander stood there with his back to the light, and Ophelia had/
a vague feeling that this silhouette seemed familiar, like someone from her dreams.
She felt quite strange.
There were too many memories from both past lives, so she had already forgotten many things.
