Let Me Go, Mr. Harvey

Biting her lips, Jessica looked at Charles with the last light of hope in her eyes disappearing and her eyes filled with tears.

Jessica had always thought that she was different from Angela as she was sensible and thoughtful and Angela was just a foppish rich kid who knew nothing about business.

But now Jessica realized that she was no different from Angela as she was abandoned by her families once she became a burden to them just like Angela.

Ignoring Jessica, Charles asked all the other people in a raised voice, “Have you all remembered it?”

No one responded. Charles asked again until all of them responded.

“You said that I did all the stupid things for a man and warned other people here. What about you, Grandpa? You make the whole Lewis family awkward by marrying this woman…”

Charles slapped Jessica in the face before she could finish her words.

“Don’t compare me with you. You don’t know what I’m doing at all!” shouted Charles who was so emotional that his voice even cracked in the end.

Everyone tensed up.

With her hand covering her face, Jessica was shocked beyond belief and tears welled up in her eyes. However, Charles didn’t give her a glance and left with a grim look on his face.

“Damn cripple! Mind your own business!” shouted Timothy and chased Charles while calling him in a affectedly sweet voice.

Seeing that, Adeline changed her countenance and said, “Jessica, how could you speak to your grandpa like that? We have made the decision for the whole family. What a big deal if you are not the finance director?”

“Even if you leave the company, your grandpa, you dad and your brother are still in charge of the company! How could you be so thoughtless today?”

Jessica’s father Edward Smith, who was standing aside, pulled the sleeve of Adeline and opened and shut his mouth, unspeaking.

“I’m thoughtless?” sneered Jessica and then wiped away her tears and trotted out.

This was the first time Jessica had a huge fight with her families.

‘They don’t understand me!’ thought Jessica.

‘None of them understand me!’

‘They have no difference from Lorenzo Chante as they will abandon anyone who is useless to them too! No matter how much I have done and how well-performed I have been, they all choose to ignore it!’

‘I’ll let all of them regret to have abandoned me. I’ll also let Grandpa Harvey regret his behavior and let Angela regret to have schemed against me! They owe me!’

*

In the Sichuan style restaurant, Angela was having meal with James when her phone was ringing. James picked up the phone and handed it to Angela after a glance. With a slight frown, James asked, “Do you still have contact with him?”

The caller was Martin.

“Yes, I have something to ask him for help,” replied Angela simply and took over the phone and answered, “Hello, Mr. Martin.”

“Okay, like what we have discussed before… okay, thanks. I’ll pay the money into your bank account later,” said Angela and hung up.

James ate silently and waited for the explanation of Angela. However, after handing her phone to him, Angela just continue to eat and had no intention of speaking.

“Martin has a good reputation as a detective. Gabriela has told me that police, soldiers and detectives are the ideal type to many young girls,” said James as he put the food on to the plate of Angela.

Angela gazed at him for quite a while.

Looking away, James wiped the corners of his mouth with napkins and said, “I’m just curious about the ideal type of young girls like you. I haven’t known it before. The better we know each other, the fewer the contradictions between us.”

“Well, unlike other girls, I’ve been wanting to marry a president since I was very little,” said Angela.

James looked up at her.

Angela put a poached spicy slice of meat on to the plate of James and said, “The name of the president is James.”

“But I wasn’t a president,” said James as he turned the slice of meat over and upside down.

Putting a slice of meat into her mouth, Angela said, “But you are bound to be.”

Glancing at the slice of meat that James was turning over and upside down, Angela asked, “Why don’t you eat it? I remember you like it. So you don’t like it now?”

“This is the first time you put food on to my plate. I begrudge eating it,” said James in a slightly wronged voice.

Angela said nothing and put more food on to his plate.

James finally stopped turning that slice of meat over and upside down and picked it up elegantly, asking, “What help do you ask Martin for? Is it about Jessica?”

“Yes,” nodded Angela without explanation.

James continued to ask, “Let me guess, is it also about the maid whose name is Cleo you have driven away?”NôvelDrama.Org holds © this.

Angela stopped eating and looked at him with a complicated look on her face.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if you drove Cleo away on an impulse in the past. But you won’t do it now. As you have driven her away mercilessly, she must resent you and tries to hurt you.”

With a pause, James said slowly, “You must have a plan.”

“… it seems not frustrating that I was weak in front of Jessica and you,” said Angela.

‘They are so thoughtful that they can speculate all of my following steps by my first step,’ thought Angela who admired and hated and feared such thoughtfulness as it made her no privacy in front of them.

Taking her glass and pouring her a glass of orange juice, James said, “You don’t need to humble yourself like this.”

Taking up the juice, Angela waited for him to go on.

“You have schemed against Jessica this time, haven’t you? First, you exposed the truth of the car accident. Second, You made the stock of the Smith Group to slump. Then, you schemed against her using your pregnancy this time and made Grandpa to anger and take revenge on her.”

“Last but not least, you made her to pay the retainage to the Chante Group in advance, thus resulting in the failure of the Smith Group in the bidding. All of these things have made the Smith family and the Lewis family to give her up temporarily.”

With a smile, James concluded, “She has been on the verge of collapse and won’t miss the chance to use Cleo.”

Raising and clinking his glass against hers, James said, “Come on, let me wish my baby every success.”

“… thanks,” said Angela, who was still not used to such intimate nicknames such as baby or sweetheart.

After drinking several gulps of juice, she finally felt her face stopped burning.

After the meal, James drove Angela back to her company and then drove to the Harvey Group alone.

When Angela came into the Chante Group, she heard a few employees were gossiping.

“Have you heard that Farley was dosed and raped by a few rich kids who like men when he was going to have lunch this noon?”

“Really? How did you know that?”

“Someone hacked his Wechat account and lived the whole process in his Moments with words and pictures. Those rich kids have admitted it. Farley has known that he was fixed by someone, but he doesn’t dare to speak it out!”