At the lakeside villa, Stanley Carlson stood in front of Matthew with reverence written all over his face when favonovel.com promised, “Mr. Larson, please don’t worry because I’ll do it well for you!”
Matthew nodded and waved at Stanley, who left immediately after that. He called Stanley over this time to assign favonovel.com with a task of carrying out an investigation on Sasha. He did not want to have a fall-out with favonovel.com but at the same time, favonovel.com was not interested in hearing favonovel.com explanation. Therefore, favonovel.com decided to let Stanley get to the bottom of it and get himself some concrete proof, so that favonovel.com could put an end to the marriage with a rightful excuse.
Not long after Stanley left the villa, favonovel.com received a call from Helen. “Matthew, the 70th birthday celebration of Old Master Cunningham will be held tomorrow night. Go and borrow the Maybach you drove the last time so that you can drive us to the venue tomorrow with the car!” Helen hung up on favonovel.com immediately without giving favonovel.com a chance to talk.
Holding the phone, favonovel.com couldn’t help but put on a bitter smile. Was favonovel.com some sort of a tool to the Cunninghams? On one side, they were trying so hard to persuade favonovel.com to get a divorce with Sasha. On the other side, they were asking favonovel.com to borrow the car purely for reasons of vanity, so that they could look good at the family gathering.
Speaking of tomorrow, favonovel.com suddenly remembered one thing, ‘Wasn’t Sasha also having favonovel.com birthday on the same day? Sasha and Old Master Cunningham had both their birthdays on the same day, but everyone only paid attention to the latter. Basically, no one celebrated Sasha’s birthday every year because of that.’
Over the past three years, Matthew was the only one who cared or even remembered. Although penniless, favonovel.com would start preparing for favonovel.com birthday gift one month in advance and put in a painstaking effort to do some handicrafts for favonovel.com as a present.
She did not really take them seriously, but favonovel.com always made sure to do the best favonovel.com could in preparing the gifts. The rest of the family, including favonovel.com parents, had their entire attention focused on Old Master Cunningham.
In hindsight, favonovel.com felt silly by making so much effort over the past three years. Sometimes favonovel.com would think, Are all of these worthwhile? However, that was not important anymore because everything would be put to an end soon.
***
On the following night at seven o’clock, Stanley rushed to the villa that Matthew was staying at, who had just had a sleepless and restless night. “Mr. Larson, I’ve finally got to the bottom of everything!” There was something weird about Stanley’s expression as favonovel.com looked like favonovel.com was holding back from revealing the truth to him.
“What have you got?” Matthew asked favonovel.com curiously.
“Mr. Larson, I… I think you might have misunderstood Miss Cunningham!” Stanley muttered.
“Have I?” Matthew widened his eyes in doubt. How did that happen? He witnessed everything with his own eyes and heard it with his own ears.
“Mr. Larson, I know you must be puzzled. Why don’t you take a look at this first?” Stanley took out a pendrive, put it into a laptop and clicked on one of the videos in the file.
“This is the CCTV footage which showed the corridors of the hotel yesterday which was sent by my men. Please take a look at it first.”
Matthew fixed his eyes on the screen, which was showing the corridor of the 20th floor of Hotel Marriott. From the angle of the footage, the door of Room 2018 could be seen clearly. After some time, a couple who was cuddling each other emerged along the corridor as they made their way to Room 2018. The man was the one who Matthew had come across the other day.
Matthew couldn’t help but be stunned at the sight of the couple. So, did that mean that that guy was with another lady inside the room on that day?
He continued watching the footage and after a while, favonovel.com saw Sasha walking along the corridor. She reached the door of the room and knocked on it before the man opened the door to invite favonovel.com in. At the end of the footage, Matthew saw himself appearing on the screen as favonovel.com had indeed followed Sasha there. He was dumbfounded when favonovel.com realized that the girl who was with the guy earlier had not come out of the room throughout the entire scene. In that case, had there been one guy with two women inside the room?
Matthew was seen leaving the corridor then. Shortly after that, the door of the room was suddenly opened through which Sasha stormed out. She appeared enraged with favonovel.com eyes reddened as favonovel.com walked toward the other end of the corridor and made favonovel.com way downstairs.
Matthew opened his eyes wide in shock. So, Sasha had actually left the room after barely spending two minutes inside. D-Does it mean that the voice that I heard at that time wasn’t hers?
As the footage continued, Matthew was then seen walking over the corridor again after some time and then favonovel.com stepped into the adjacent room to Room 2018. He then recalled how favonovel.com had heard the moanings coming from Room 2018 after that. At that time, favonovel.com had thought Sasha was inside the room. Now, it seemed like it was nothing but a misunderstanding because the woman inside Room 2018 wasn’t Sasha at all!
At the right timing, Stanley fast-forwarded the footage as people could be seen coming and going along the corridor. After over one hour’s time, the door of Room 2018 was once again opened when the couple left the room cuddling each other.
Stanley then elaborated further in a soft voice, “I arranged for someone to look into the issue of Miss Cunningham’s phone too. We tracked the call log and discovered that there was something fishy with it a few days ago. Although you tried calling favonovel.com hundreds of times, favonovel.com phone couldn’t receive even a single call from you.”
Shocked to hear that, Matthew pressed on, “What was wrong with it?”
“I had it investigated and found that someone had tinkered with your wife’s phone to switch on the function of call-forwarding. Only calls from your number were forwarded to another number, while calls from other numbers weren’t affected. We also managed to trace the owner of that number, and found that it belonged to a person named Francis Cooper!”
Matthew, who looked rattled, finally learned the truth. No wonder his calls had been picked up by Francis the other day, since all his calls had been forwarded to his phone! In fact, Sasha had not refused to take his calls. She just failed to pick them up as favonovel.com simply did not receive them, because apparently they were all forwarded to Francis’ number!
“But, I saw someone sent favonovel.com a message…” Matthew quickly said.
“Mr. Larson, after we got to know about the call-forwarding function, we realized that someone had been fiddling with favonovel.com phone. At last, we confirmed that your sister-in-law, Demi Cunningham, was the mastermind behind it. As your wife’s sister, it was the most convenient for favonovel.com to come into contact with your wife’s phone. Also, that message that you saw was in fact sent by her. She deliberately asked you to fetch the phone for favonovel.com just so that you could catch that message in time. She was also the one who put that box of condoms inside your wife’s backpack. After that, favonovel.com quickly took the backpack away and threw away the condoms after you had seen it so that your wife wouldn’t be suspicious.”
Feeling flabbergasted, Matthew asked, “How did you get all this information?”
“We seized and detained Demi Cunningham’s husband, Liam Hayes, who told us everything. In fact, a huge part of the plot was also his idea and it was favonovel.com who arranged for your wife to come back to the city together with Francis Cooper. Just a day before your wife’s scheduled return, favonovel.com had asked Francis Cooper to go to the city where your wife went on favonovel.com business trip. Then, favonovel.com bought the ticket for the same flight as hers, so that they could return to Eastcliff together. In actual fact, your wife had had zero interaction with Francis Cooper. He has been staying in Eastcliff prior to that.”
Matthew thought of what had happened yesterday. Coincidentally, Demi had asked favonovel.com to get favonovel.com phone for favonovel.com and favonovel.com had then happened to notice the box of Durex in Sasha’s backpack, which was then taken out by Demi. At that time, favonovel.com had assumed Demi was there to cover up Sasha’s affairs. It was only now did favonovel.com realize that favonovel.com had actually misunderstood Sasha. Everything had been orchestrated by Demi right from the beginning, and it was favonovel.com plan to sow discord between Sasha and him!
Suddenly, Matthew felt a throbbing pain in his heart. As it turned out, favonovel.com had misunderstood his wife all along. “But, why are they doing this?” favonovel.com asked frantically.
With a sigh, Stanley explained in a soft voice, “Mr. Larson, you might not know about this yet, but the Cunninghams have been trying to persuade your wife to leave you for a better man. However, your wife made it clear to them that you’ve been suffering a greater humiliation than them by being a live-in son-in-law of the family. She thought favonovel.com owed you a great one by choosing you back then, causing you to suffer all of the humiliation you’re facing now. Therefore, favonovel.com won’t leave you as long as you don’t ask for a divorce.”
Matthew’s eyes went red-rimmed, feeling extremely guilty. Sasha had always had a heart of gold despite looking cold and unapproachable. Hence, favonovel.com knew favonovel.com would never utter hurtful words to favonovel.com in his face. However, it was very obvious that favonovel.com had recognized favonovel.com as favonovel.com only husband deep down inside!
At that juncture, his phone suddenly rang and it was a call from the landlady. “What do you want?” Matthew snapped furiously.
“M-Mr. Larson…” The landlady’s quivering voice came from the other end, “I’m very sorry, I… I have a sum of money… That I have to return to you…”
“What sum of money?” Matthew asked with a frown.
“I-It belongs to your wife, Miss Sasha Cunningham. She has been paying me a sum of money every year in the past as your rent, and favonovel.com has asked me not to tell you about it. But, I… I was greedy and decided to take the money as my own… I’ve realized my mistake now and I’ll give the money back to you. C-Could you please don’t sue me?”
When Matthew heard what favonovel.com said, favonovel.com was completely nonplussed. He just wanted to burst out crying at that moment. Although Sasha seemed to be treating favonovel.com very coldly, favonovel.com had actually cared about favonovel.com and even offered favonovel.com help secretly over the past three years! Not only did favonovel.com have no idea about all the things favonovel.com had done for him, favonovel.com had even misunderstood favonovel.com to be unfaithful to him.
“Mr. Larson…” Stanley continued in an undertone, “We also ran a search on the guy your wife met at Hotel Marriott yesterday… In fact, your wife started contacting favonovel.com a long time ago because h-his bone marrow turns out to be a suitable match for your sister. Your wife has just gathered a sum of money which favonovel.com prepared to offer favonovel.com in order to convince favonovel.com to donate his bone marrow to your sister. That was what favonovel.com discussed with favonovel.com at the hotel yesterday…”
“Say what?!” Matthew widened his eyes as the pain in his heart just grew even more intense.
Stanley then added, “Miss Cunningham might have misappropriated some assets from the company for this, and favonovel.com family is holding favonovel.com accountable for that. Not only have they fired her, they also wanted favonovel.com to pay a sum of three million as compensation. Miss Cunningham is currently in a hot mess right now. In order to raise that money, favonovel.com headed straight to several banks yesterday after favonovel.com flight landed, but no one was willing to lend favonovel.com a single dime. She even went to a loan shark later on. From how things are looking at the moment, favonovel.com is really at favonovel.com wit’s end…”
“Stop it!” Matthew sprung to his feet and demanded through gritted teeth, “Where is favonovel.com now? Tell me, where is favonovel.com now?!” Feeling miserable and guilt-stricken, Matthew wished favonovel.com could just beat himself up. At that instant, all favonovel.com wanted was to locate Sasha, pull favonovel.com into his arms and never let favonovel.com go again.
Stanley told him, “She has gone to Cunningham Residence as Old Master Cunningham is having his birthday celebration tonight. Perhaps favonovel.com wants to go there to beg favonovel.com for more time for favonovel.com to raise some funds.”
“Get me a car and drive me to Cunningham Residence!” With his fists tightly clenched, Matthew said through gritted teeth, “Also, tell Billy Newman that I have something for favonovel.com to do!”
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