Drowning Him In Regret novel Chapter 91

Chapter 91 Changing Testimony

Chapter 91 Changing Testimony

I ignored her and looked at Aiden, who was standing behind her.

I asked, “What are you doing here?”

The two families were basically at each other’s throats already, almost fully aware of each other’s secrets. And he still dared show up at the company?

Aiden shrugged. “Well, there’s so much going on at Carson Group now, and Jude..sn’t in great health. As his older cousin, I should come to help. No need to get mad. It was Grandpa Ewan’s decision. If you don’t believe me, call him yourself.”

I had no idea what kind of agreement Ewan had reached with the first branch of the family, but for Aiden to say that so confidently, it had to be true.

Vivian stepped forward again, blocking my line of sight. “Ada, I’m talking to you.”

I shot back. “And what position are you speaking to me from? Ms. Miller?”

Her personnel file still listed her as an assistant. A junior assistant, at that. She had almost no real authority. The only leverage she had was the child in her belly.

I looked down at her lower abdomen. She instinctively placed her hands over it and stepped back a couple of paces. Judging by her reaction, she really was pregnant.

She declared, “I’m Jude’s senior assistant now. About to be promoted. From now on, my words are Jude’s words, so you

have to listen to me!”

She leaned in closer, gloating, and whispered so only I could hear, “Ewan said prenatal care is important. I have to be at the company. After all, the baby I’m carrying is Jude’s only heir. The whole Carson Group belongs to her.”

“Well, I hope all your dreams come true.” I smiled at her, then took Casey by the arm and walked away.

Her baby was just a fertilized egg, and she already had the nerve to act so arrogant.

Three years sounds like a long time, but if Jude got healthy again, he could have thirty kids in a year if he wanted. There’d be plenty of people vying for Carson Group’s inheritance.

“Ada, are you okay?” Casey looked at me with worry.

I just shook my head. “Let’s work. This kind of thing doesn’t bother me. I don’t care.”

I kept telling myself I didn’t care. And the more I said it, the less angry I felt.

The doctor had said most of my illness was caused by stress and rage. If my marriage had been happy, maybe the disease wouldn’t have come back a second time.

Now, I just avoid everyone and everything that makes me angry. Maybe I would live a bit longer that way.

During lunch break, I was planning to nap in my office until an unexpected visitor showed up.

A young female officer I often saw at the police station had swapped her uniform for casual student clothes. She stood at my office door and waved at me.

I hurried over. “Officer, what brings you here?”

She handed me her business card. “Just call me Imogen Francis. Or Officer Francis, if you prefer. Ada, it’s your break time, right? I wanted to ask you a few things.”

I looked behind her. No other police officers were around. That felt odd.

She quickly explained, “I’m here in a personal capacity. You don’t have to talk to me if you don’t want to.”

I smiled and shook my head. “Let me buy you lunch. The restaurant across the street is decent.”

She had defended me more than once at the station, even gave me subtle reminders. There was no way I’d turn her down. But I didn’t expect the bombshell she dropped.

Imogen said, “That guy from your company, Douglas, he recanted today. He said everything he did wasn’t on Vivian’s orders. He just couldn’t stand having a woman in charge. And as for framing Vivian, he claimed he only did that because she was your husband’s… You know… basically trying to shift the blame to reduce his sentence.”

Imogen didn’t eat much, just sipped her juice the whole time.

She added, “He said the money he received came from a foreign company. They paid him to steal Carson Group’s designs. Since it’s across borders, we can’t dig too deep into it.”

I wasn’t surprised. Ewan had said he’d take care of it. Of course, he wouldn’t let there be any evidence against Vivian.

But what Imogen said next did shock me. “And Grover committed suicide this morning.”

She continued, “Last night, he suddenly said he wanted to confess some things. I read his statement. He said the

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kidnapping of Bethany was all his idea, and that he was the one who pushed her off the building. The medical examiner found traces of his skin under her fingernails.”

She shook her head. “But that still doesn’t prove he was there at the time. Could’ve been from a previous struggle.”