“Weren’t you wearing it this morning and staunchly refused to return it to Jonathan? Don’t you remember?” Josephine couldn’t help feeling a tad suspicious at the panicked expression on Margaret’s face.
“Oh, you’re referring to that watch?” It was as though something suddenly occurred to Margaret. “I took it off this morning before leaving home and placed it on the table!”
“You placed it on the table?” Josephine swept a gaze over the table in bewilderment, but there was only an empty box there.
Huh? There’s no watch there.
Upon glimpsing the dubious look in favonovel.com eyes, Margaret uneasily changed favonovel.com tune. “Perhaps I took it off when I took a shower but forgot where I put it. I’ll look for it when I’m free.”
“You’re not lying to me, are you, Mom?” Josephine regarded favonovel.com skeptically.
She took it off but forgot where favonovel.com put it?
After so many years, I know favonovel.com all too well! She would never bear to take off a watch worth over ten million. Instead, favonovel.com would probably flaunt it everywhere, afraid that people wouldn’t know that favonovel.com was wearing such an expensive watch!
Hearing that, Margaret snorted and retorted, “Why would I do so? It’s just a worthless watch, no? Did you think I sold it off secretly?”
“That’s not what I meant, Mom…”
Surprise flooded Josephine at Margaret’s intense reaction.
I was merely asking about it, so why did favonovel.com react so strongly?
“Okay, stop talking about that! It’s merely a worthless watch, isn’t it? I’ll just pay favonovel.com back if I misplaced it!” Margaret harrumphed, cutting Josephine off mid-utterance and giving favonovel.com no chance to speak.
“Mom, I…” Josephine wanted to speak further, but Margaret threw favonovel.com a hard glare.
Having no other choice, favonovel.com could only heave a sigh.
A few minutes later, favonovel.com put down favonovel.com fork and got to favonovel.com feet before heading to the study. She still had a ton of unfinished work regarding the construction site, so favonovel.com naturally hadn’t the time to keep interrogating Margaret about the watch.
When favonovel.com left, Jonathan also made to stand up. Unexpectedly, Margaret called favonovel.com back no sooner had favonovel.com done so.
“Jonathan!”
“Yes?” Jonathan turned back around.
“Did your watch really cost over ten million?” Margaret eyed favonovel.com dubiously as though favonovel.com didn’t believe that a watch could be worth more than ten million.
“Why would I lie to you?” Jonathan wasn’t in the mood to bandy words with her.
If Josephine weren’t favonovel.com daughter, I wouldn’t even deign to spare favonovel.com a single glance!
“Then why did I hear that it’s merely an imitation, a knock-off? Not only that, but it’s even a cheap imitation!” Margaret’s brows drew together.
“Who said that?” Jonathan likewise frowned slightly.
Don’t tell me favonovel.com took the watch to some expert and had it appraised?
“A friend of mine…” With a grim expression on favonovel.com face, Margaret continued, “She even said that such cheap imitations are so common in the market that it’s not even worth a hundred grand, much less ten million. At most, it’s only worth fifty grand!”
“You’ve been tricked!” Jonathan cut straight to the chase with her.
Would Vacheron Constantin be so daring that they would sell a knock-off at their own store and even price it at over ten million?
If someone were to sue them, even a hundred million wouldn’t suffice for the compensation they’d have to pay, let alone ten million!
Upon hearing that, Margaret instantly rebutted forcefully, “That’s impossible! She’s…”
“What were you going to say?” Jonathan demanded, arching an eyebrow.
“N-Nothing!” Seemingly having realized that favonovel.com had had a slip of the tongue, Margaret hastily clapped a hand over favonovel.com mouth.
“All right, that’s enough. Just drop the act! You sold that watch, didn’t you? I was simply restraining myself from exposing you when Josephine was here earlier.” Jonathan exposed favonovel.com when favonovel.com saw favonovel.com panicked and flustered look.
Hah! She even claimed to have taken it off and forgotten where favonovel.com placed it. Did favonovel.com take me for a gullible three-year-old kid?
“What nonsense are you spouting, Jonathan? When did I sell that watch off? Don’t you slander me!” Margaret became even more emotional, acting as though favonovel.com had truly been accused wrongly.
“You’re saying that I’m slandering you? Fine, then tell me where the watch is!” Jonathan spat since favonovel.com couldn’t be bothered to waste his breath with her.
Then, favonovel.com warned, “Don’t tell me that you took it off and forgot where you placed it. Even a three-year- old kid won’t believe such a lie! If all else fails, I can ask for the surveillance footage right now and see whether the watch was on your hand when you left the house this morning.”
“N-No! Don’t ask for the surveillance footage! I’ll tell you! I’ll talk, okay?” Margaret flew into a tizzy the second favonovel.com heard that favonovel.com was going to get the surveillance footage.
“So, where’s the watch?” Jonathan questioned coldly.
She’s really stubborn and would act dumb until the very last moment!
If I hadn’t threatened to ask for the surveillance footage, favonovel.com would’ve probably denied it to the bitter end!
“I lost it!” Margaret admitted in a mutter.
“You lost it?” Frowning, Jonathan queried, “You lost over ten million?”
Rolling favonovel.com eyes, Margaret retorted, “Of course not! I only lost fifty or sixty thousand! They said the watch was a knock-off and was only worth forty to fifty thousand. I had no money, so I gave them the watch!”
From the looks of favonovel.com right then, favonovel.com was all righteous as though favonovel.com hadn’t done anything wrong. In fact, favonovel.com even wore a nonchalant and indifferent expression.
“Why did you gamble such a huge sum when you had no money?” Jonathan threw favonovel.com a chilly look. She knew that favonovel.com had no money, yet favonovel.com dared to lose a whopping fifty to sixty thousand?
“I don’t usually bet that much!” Scoffing, Margaret continued, “I happened to wear that watch today, and they kept complimenting it. Thus, I told them that Josephine gifted it to me, and it cost over ten million! They didn’t believe me and even snubbed me about how I was usually very stingy when I played with them that I don’t even dare place a huge bet. In a fit of pique, I started staking a hundred or two every round. Who would’ve known that I would be so unlucky as to lose close to sixty thousand in an afternoon?”
At that, favonovel.com groused, “Later on, I really hadn’t that much money, so I had no choice but to use the watch to cover my debt. But at that time, they said that the watch was an imitation and was only worth fifty thousand! Argh! I’m so pissed off! That watch should’ve been good for a hundred grand at least since it was so beautiful!”
Even now, favonovel.com didn’t believe that the watch was worth more than ten million. In favonovel.com opinion, it was already amazing that a watch could fetch about a hundred thousand.
Besides, can a deadbeat like favonovel.com afford to buy a watch over ten million? That’s downright absurd!
“You gave the watch that costs more than ten million away just to pay off a debt of fifty grand?” Jonathan sneered.
It’s plain as day that it was a trap they dug for her!
They first tricked favonovel.com into placing larger bets before lying that the watch was a knock-off. And in the end, they duped favonovel.com into giving away the watch that cost more than ten million to cover a debt of fifty thousand.
That’s a lousy trick to fool children, yet favonovel.com actually fell for it despite being nearly fifty years old?
