“Charlotte,” Simon said, feeling rather embarrassed. “Your father built this villa for you originally. We’ve been living here for four years and now it’s finally returned to its original owner.”
“The reason I saved you was all because of the kid,” Charlotte whispered. “I didn’t do it to get anything.”
“I know.” Amanda gave her a bitter smile and continued, “We’re feeling even more guilty because you saved us without holding any grudges. Let us use this chance to make up for our mistakes.”
After pausing for a moment, she took out a bill and handed it to the former.
“These are the fortune your father left when he got into the accident. I’m really ashamed to say this but we took advantage of you for being young and naive. We took this villa for ourselves and even got ourselves three factories for a very low price. However, we’ve already used up all of the money when buying off headlines and searches previously. We even sold the factories and used the money. We don’t have much money to our names now. So we can only give you this villa and this…”
Amanda opened up a jewelry box.
Charlotte looked up and instantly saw the ruby necklace Zachary gifted her.
“I’ve hidden this necklace so that I could sell it off if I was ever in desperate need of money. Not even my husband or Luna knew about this.”
She smiled bitterly and added, “I’m such a shameless person. I don’t have money that I can compensate you for and can only give you the villa and the necklace just to give myself peace of mind.”
“This…”
“Just take it.” Simon shoved the documents and jewelry box into Charlotte’s arms and said, “These are all yours to begin with!”
“But what’s going to happen to you now that you’ve given me these? Won’t you be broke now?”
The latter knew that they didn’t really have much savings now as Amanda wasn’t wearing any jewelry today. It was obvious that they had already run out of fortune.
“It looks like you don’t know.” Amanda shuddered as she spoke, “Helena said that for the sake of Mr. Nacht, she’ll give us seven million as compensation.”
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