Chapter 416 A Fake Ring and a Real Warning
“It was nothing. Just like when you were grounded -they locked me up with wolves.”
“…Pathetic.”
Halbert muttered the insult under his breath.
Eliza rolled her eyes. “Seriously? Your own sister just got locked in a wolf den, and you’re calling me pathetic? I’m lucky I even made it out alive!”
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Halbert was clearly talking big from the sidelines. Had he forgotten what it was like being locked in that underground room?
“Only half an hour and you’re this shaken? Looking like a mess. If it were me, I would’ve killed both wolves just to make a point.”
“But I am curious,” he added, “why do both the Foster and Sue families have those secret rooms?”
“I heard it’s because your mom was once locked up in the Foster family’s dungeon. After she joined the Sue family, she had one built exactly the same – just to train herself not to be caught off guard the next time.”
Eliza blinked in surprise.
She hadn’t expected her mother to be that kind of person.
“But what exactly did you give that guy just now?” Halbert asked.
“A ring.”
“What kind of ring?”
“Something cheap from the mall
Meanwhile…
—
cost a few grand at most.”
The secretary had already handed Eliza’s ring to Mr. Felix. He held it up, inspecting it closely, a frown. creeping across his weathered face.
“This is the ring Emilia left her daughter? It feels… off. Is there some secret to it?”
The people around him had no clue what to make of it,
The Foster family was loaded – how could they not tell if a ring was fake?
Just then, Wendy pulled out her phone and snapped a photo of the ring. She uploaded it to a shopping app and ran a search.
Within seconds, over a hundred identical matches popped up.
“You got scammed.”
Mr. Felix’s face darkened immediately.
He flung the ring to the floor/“Emilia’s daughter is just as rotten as she was!”
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No one dared say a word.
Except the secretary he looked the most pissed off.
He’d been played by Eliza, and made a fool of in front of his boss.
“Father.”
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Henry entered the study, his gaze briefly dropping to the ring on the floor before bending to pick it up.
“I actually think Emilia may never have given the ring to her daughter,” Henry said calmly. “She died right after giving birth. She wouldn’t have had the chance.”
“Oh?”
“Even if she did, it probably ended up in the hands of Eliza’s adoptive parents- Emilia’s brother and his wife. There’s no way it stayed with Eliza.”
Mr. Felix gave a nod. That made sense.
The Foster family branch that raised Eliza had always been greedy – they wouldn’t have let something valuable slip away.
Wendy chimed in, “But her uncle’s dead, right? No one even knows where he’s buried. That ring’s probably long gone.”
“He may be dead, but his wife and daughter are still alive,” Henry said pointedly.
Naomi and her mother?
“Only problem is,” Henry added, feigning hesitation, “Naomi’s living with the Hartwell family now. They’re not some rich aristocrats, but they do have a decent reputation in Westbrook. They’ve also got ties to the underworld. Starting trouble could get messy.”
Mr. Felix snorted. “So what? Send someone to the Hartwell family now. It’s just a woman. I still carry weight. If Nathaniel won’t hand her over, then we won’t/play nice.”
Henry hadn’t expected his father to be so obsessed with the ring.
He hesitated a moment before asking, “Father, Nathaniel knows quite a bit about our business. If we fall out with him, things could get ugly. Why is this ring so important?”
“You’re still too young. There are things you don’t need to know. Just follow my orders.”
Mr. Felix’s tone was cold and final.
Henry had no choice but to back down. “I’ll go talk to Nathaniel myself. I’ll try to keep things civil.”
“Go.”
“Yes, Father.”
Henry exited the study and headed straight to the Hartwell residence with a few men.
Inside the Hartwell home…
Chapter 416 A Fake Ring and a Real Warning
Nathaniel was messing around with a woman in the living room. The noise was so loud it woke Naomi
upstairs.
She’d long been sick of the little fox of a woman clinging to Nathaniel his latest favorite. That woman never missed a chance to make Naomi’s life miserable, laughing at her every day.
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