Come To Me (Amelia and Patrick) novel Chapter 579

After helping the embarrassed-looking Brittany back onto the sofa, Alice turned to Amelia and apologized, "Amelia, don't blame Daniel. He has always been in charge of this project. He's the one who finds it most difficult to handle when something like this happens."

Amelia looked at the dejected Daniel and sneered, "Aunt Alice, you don't have to pity him. This time, he deserves to be beaten!"

Brittany glared at Amelia and said sullenly, "We called you here because we want you to advise us with a plan. Why are you having a go at Daniel?"

"I'm having a go at him?" Amelia replied coldly, "If he's not guilty, then why didn't he fight back?"

Brittany hurriedly followed up and said, "Daniel, why aren't you saying anything?"

Daniel's expression flickered, but he remained silent in the end.

Amelia sat down on a single-seated sofa and looked at Daniel with a jeer. "Are you a man? You're the person who's in charge of such a major accident, yet you're hiding at home?"

Daniel's face gloomed terrifyingly as if he had been punched in the face.

Alice sensed that something was not right from what Amelia said. She frowned and asked Daniel, "Are you hiding something from us?"

Daniel's eyes flashed, and he looked as if he was at loss at how to respond.

An icy gaze swept over Daniel in disdain. Amelia then looked at Alice and said, "Aunt Alice, I should answer your question. If Daniel hadn't skimped on the resources, this building wouldn't have collapsed for no reason."

Under the look of horror from Alice and Brittany, Daniel refuted in a low, hoarse voice, "I only skimped because I wanted to help the company to save costs!"

Alice was at first sceptical about Amelia's accusation, but Daniel's words destroyed her last bit of doubt.

Amelia narrowed her eyes and mocked, "It turns out that you can talk after all. I thought you were mute!"

Alice said with grief, "Daniel, how could you do such a thing! Integrity is the most important quality of any person. And yet, you... Alas..."

The words were all boiled down into a heavy sigh.

"At this point, what's the point of blaming Daniel for it?" Brittany said as if she was challenging the both of them, "Isn't it merely about a building collapsing? It'll be all fine once we rebuild it!"

Her words quietened the entire living room.

Amelia looked at Brittany as if she was looking at a naive, ignorant young lady. No, to be exact... It was as if she was looking at kid with low intelligence.

"Brittany, your man has racked his brains to have so many tricks up his sleeves, but you can't even well use of your brain. You're truly complementary to each other."

"You!" Brittany's glowered at her.

Alice looked displeased. "Brittany! Go upstairs If you dare to talk back to your sister again!"

Brittany's mouth twitched. In her mind, any problem that could be solved with money was not a problem. She even thought that Amelia was deliberately exaggerating the scope of the matter to make things difficult for Daniel since she did not like him.

"Mom, you're doited!"

Slap!

When Brittany said this, Alice had slapped her in the face!

Brittany was stunned. After a pause, she covered her cheek with her hands and looked up with her teary eyes. She asked Alice in a trembling voice, "Mom... you hit me?"

"Fred, bring Brittany back to her room!" Alice bore the pain in her heart and ordered the butler to take her trouble-making daughter away.

"Yes, madam," the butler came to Brittany and said gingerly, "Miss Brittany, please follow me."

Amelia could not wait any longer. "How much money did you invest in the development zone?"

"Nearly one billion..."

"Does the company have one billion for you to use freely?" "No, I took a six hundred million loan from the bank."

Amelia suppressed the urge to curse and said, "Daniel, you're very bold!"

"When it comes to real estate, it's highly profitable. Our situation is only so passive now because of the accident. If the skyscraper is built and finished, the company will quickly return to business and break even." Daniel was still living in his idealistic dream.

Amelia shot Daniel a cold glance. "Daniel, there's no 'if' in this world!"

"That's right, there's no 'if'..." As he said this, Daniel's gaze was strangely fixed on Amelia.

Amelia felt uncomfortable under his stare. "I've never seen a leader who's more irresponsible than you. You don't even dare to go to the scene when something happened to your project and your employees!"

Daniel hastily explained, "I did go, I just didn't get out of the car."

Amelia blurted out, "Coward!"

Huxton coughed drily as if to remind Amelia that she had also remained in the car.

"Humph, you can say whatever you want." Daniel took in two more puffs of the cigarette, looking as if he was enjoying the final moment of his life.

Amelia turned pale with anger. Daniel had not only ruined Apex Construction Corporation's most important project but also damaged the reputation of the company, which had been built up for many years. And yet, he was still so calm, at peace, and completely unbothered so shamelessly!

Amelia advised him to bear the consequences of his action. "Daniel, you're the person-in-charge of this project..."