Drowning Him In Regret novel Chapter 85

Chapter 85 Her Daughter

Chapter 85 Her Daughter

Douglas’s breathing turned rapid, his eyes filled with barely concealed panic.

He pleaded, “No, it wasn’t me, it’s all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!”

I looked at him and sighed softly. “Douglas, with your experience, you could easily be a director somewhere else. I know you’re not the mastermind. Why ruin your life for someone else?”

Casey kept signaling to me from the side. I knew she wanted to call the police, but shook my head.

If we reported it now, it’d be hard to find out who was behind it all. It might even alert them.

I needed to get him talking first. If it really was Aiden pulling the strings, I had to get solid proof.

Douglas narrowed his eyes in thought, then looked at me. “Ada, you’re Mrs. Carson. Can you promise not to call the police?”

“What do you think?” I wasn’t about to give scum like him any guarantees. He seemed a bit deflated and sat down heavily on the floor,

He said, “Okay, I’ll confess. It was all Vivian’s idea. She said if I could take you down, she’d become Mrs. Carson, and I’d be made director of the design department.”

He added, “She bought the design blueprints and wanted to put them under my name. I refused, so she had Randy take the fall instead.”

“You planted the virus and attacked me too, didn’t you?” I looked at him without any expression.

He lowered his head and nodded miserably. “Yes. I was being stupid. I had proof Randy took the money, and I scared him a bit, so he confessed instead.”

He added, “But Vivian definitely has someone backing her. I’ve heard someone giving her instructions over the phone.”

My eyes lit up, so there really was someone behind Vivian. “Who is it? Is it Aiden?”

Douglas shook his head. “She said that one day Carson Group would be that person’s, but I don’t know who it is.”

It seemed like a dead end, but not quite. There was only one direct heir in the Carson family, Jude.

If someone else were planning to take over the company, who could it be?

Casey sat beside me, frowning. She looked just as puzzled.

Douglas looked up at me again, eyes full of pleading.

He said, “Mrs. Carson, for the sake of our time as colleagues, just fire me, please don’t call the police. Just treat me like a fart and let me go. I swear I’ll never do anything like this again!”

I responded, “One last question. Why do you trust Vivian so much? You should know Jude had plenty of women around him.”

There were a lot. After our marriage, I’d met at least twenty. And that didn’t even count the small–time actresses and models he never brought home.

So why would Douglas place all his trust in Vivian?

He looked embarrassed, coughed heavily. “I… I knew her before. Back in school, she was… a hostess at a private club. She even did some escorting.”

“What?” Casey cried out in shock.

I was too shocked to speak.

Douglas, now clearly giving up, just spilled everything.

Vivian hadn’t graduated before she started working. She made good money and even provided escort services. Douglas had been one of her regular clients.

Douglas explained, “Two years ago, she quit. I heard she got pregnant and had a daughter. That’s when we lost contact. But… she has pictures of us together from back then. She’s been blackmailing me!”

Suddenly, everything clicked in my head.

The kidnapped girl, supposedly the daughter of the suspect.

And Vivian was able to take the child away eas hat was way too suspicious. What if the child was hers to begin with, and the kidnapper was her boyfriend?

Successfully unlocked!

The police arrived just as I finished questioning him.

I had messaged Casey earlier to let her know she could call them now. The station was nearby, so they arrived quickly.

When he saw the police, Douglas started struggling madly. “Ada, you lied! You said you wouldn’t call them! You bitch! How

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Chapter 85 Her Daughter

dare you lie to me!”

I looked at him coldly. “Only a fool would make promises to someone like you.”

I quickly recounted what he had just told us.

An officer said, “Mrs. Carson, thank you for your cooperation. We’ll work to apprehend the other suspects as soon as possible.

“Also, the kidnapper, Grover, has already confessed. He’s Vivian’s ex–boyfriend, and the little girl is Vivian’s daughter”

The officer’s words didn’t surprise me. I’d already guessed as much.