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    Christopher shouted furiously into the phone, “ine, you’re throwing mud—those are a pack of f*cking lies!”


    ine replied, her voice tinged with anxiety, “Oh, you don’t believe me? Fine! If you can find Hannah, I’ll admit I’m wrong!”


    “What do you mean by that?”


    “Figure it out yourself! I’m too tired for this; I don’t want to talk to you anymore!”<h3 style="background-color:DodgerBlue">


    With that, ine abruptly ended the call.


    In a fit of rage, Christopher nearly smashed his phone against the wall when he heard the busy signal.


    Harold quickly grabbed his father’s arms and urged, “Dad, calm down! Right now, we need to focus on finding Mom!”


    Unfortunately, Harold was unaware that their mother was heading towards the gullies in Erith, making it nearly impossible for the Wilson family to locate her with their current resources.


    Wendy leaned against her father and chimed in, “Yeah, Dad! Don’t get so worked up! What did that B*tch say?”


    Christopher huffed, indignantly replying, “ine imed that your mom is having an affair with some guy and that she ran away with him!”


    “What?!” Harold, Wendy, and Lady Wilson were taken aback, their jaws nearly dropping in shock!


    “An affair?!” Lady Wilson eximed. “Is this true?”


    “I don’t know, Mom!” Christopher responded, his voiceced with anxiety. “That’s what ine said! She imed it was all a setup, a scam to distract me while Hannah bought herself time to escape!”


    Harold cursed in disbelief, “That B*tch is lying, Dad! My mom wouldn’t cheat, let alone run away with someone!”<fn0634> Follow current nov?ls on Find?Novel</fn0634>


    Christopher’s expression twisted slightly, and he spoke in a calmer, colder tone, “We can’t be sure! Thinking back, though, your mom did seem a bit off!”


    “What do you mean?” Harold and Wendy asked in unison, their curiosity piqued. “What do you mean by that?”


    “Your grandma has been asking me for the eight million dors, but your mom didn’t want to give it to her. She suggested I transfer all the money into her ount and tell your grandma that it was tied up in the fund management ount. That’s why I transferred all our money to her—fifteen million, all of it!”


    Upon hearing the amount, Lady Wilson’s eyes widened in disbelief. She pped Christopher across the face and scolded, “Didn’t you say you only had ten million?!”


    Christopher, taken aback by both the p and the truth he had just revealed, felt a surge of frustration. Raising his voice, he retorted, “Mom! You’re the one who estimated I had ten million! I didn’t say it myself!”


    “Then why didn’t you just tell me the truth? I’m your mother! Why couldn’t youe clean about how much money you really had?!”


    Christopher stood there, momentarily speechless.


    He knew it was his fault for hiding the true bnce in his ount; he felt guilty about it.


    Lady Wilson sighed in distress, “I always believed you were different from your brother. I thought you were smarter and more capable! But how could you lie to me like this?”


    She bit her lip and muttered, “A wise man can be ruined by his own wisdom, foolish boy! Instead of being honest with your mother, you handed all the money to your wife. Now that she’s run off with everything, we’re finished!”


    Wendy interjected, her voice filled with concern, “No! Grandma, my mom wouldn’t do that!”


    Lady Wilson shot her a sharp re and snapped, “She wouldn’t do that, you say? Then where is she? Where did she go? Why has she vanished?”


    Continuing with intensity, she added, “Your mom keeps talking about a scam, yet all her aplices, including her, have disappeared, except for ine. There’s something very wrong with this picture!”


    Harold suddenly blurted out an idea that had just struck him, “Could it be that ine is behind all this? What if she’s the one taking care of my mom and her aplices?”


    Lady Wilson scoffed in disgust, “ine? Do you really believe that dimwit could pull something like this off? Only your foolish uncle would fall for her tricks! I won’t get into your mother’s character right now, but she is ten times smarter than ine, that’s the truth! If she wanted to fool ine, there’s no way ine could retaliate!”


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