The policemen heaved a sigh of relief and departed right after they got into the car.
Zeke handed the safe box to Hannah, “Mom, please verify if there's a million.”
Hannah, who was dumbfounded, finally returned to her senses. She held on to the safe box and assured Zeke, “O-Okay! I'll go and verify it immediately!”
She rushed into the office with the safe box and locked the door because she was afraid others would go in after her.
Zeke gave Lacey a thumbs up. “Honey, you're the best! You managed to earn a million without doing anything over the night! I'm impressed!”
“Shut up.” Lacey looked at Zeke in the eyes.
She knew Zeke must have been the one behind the scenes because of how absurd things were. Lacey refused to believe it had nothing to do with Zeke.
Jeremy shouted angrily, “Shut up, Zeke!”
“Do you think that million belongs to Lacey? It belongs to me! I spent a night behind bars for it!”
“You have to hand it over to me!”
Lily nodded vigorously. “That's right! That's a compensation from the Schneider family to my dad! You guys shouldn't have gotten your hands on it!”
However, Lacey rebutted their statements, “I'm sure you guys heard what the police told me, right? It's for the person in charge of the steel mill.”
“I believe I'm the person in charge as of now.”
Daniel raised his objection. “Nonsense! Do you think you're the person in charge just because you have said so? Why don't you refer to the legal title?”
Lacey showed him the legal title, “Are you talking about this piece of paper?”
Jeremy scoffed, “Hmph! Don't forget that your grandpa is the owner of the legal title! Dad, why don't you tell him who's the owner of this plot of land!”
Adam flushed all of a sudden and remained silent.
Lacey cast a thoughtful gaze at Zeke. “Did you insist on the transferal of ownership because of this? Did you foresee this coming our way?”
“Nah! I must have been lucky!” assured Zeke.
“Ha... Ha... Do you really think I will trust you?” asked Lacey rhetorically.
Jeremy's face turned pale when he heard their words, “What? Transferal of ownership?”
Lily stuttered, “Dad... J-Just now... t-they insisted us to transfer the legal title to them. H-Hence...”
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