My Four Miraculous Treasures novel Chapter 180

“Master Hughes, haven’t you heard anything about it?” Zachary Price sounded genuinely taken aback.

After a moment, he went on, “It has to do with that fiasco during the recent fashion show. A cleaning woman working at your Hughes Corporation—I think her name is Willow Nason—stole some designs and sold them off to Zeigler Corporation.

“I’ve been given the impression that she’s a sly vixen, somehow seducing your grandson until he was tightly wrapped around her little finger. In order to help cover up her crime, Jasper himself set up Edith to be framed as the culprit, by ordering her to go get rid of some security footage. As she was carrying out his instructions, reporters who’d been lying in wait managed to take incriminating photos of her, which were then used against her, supposedly as proof of her guilt!”

Before making this call, Zachary had already visited his daughter, and gotten the full story from her.

Now, Hughes Corporation had completed their take-over of Zeigler Corporation, which meant that those fashion designs, whoever had produced them in the first place, were now Hughes Corporation’s legitimate property.

There was no longer any dispute over them, nor any further reason to fuss over whether or not they might have been stolen by anyone before.

Since Hughes Corporation had dropped any legal charges over the matter, it could easily be swept under the rug, and forgotten completely.

If Frank Hughes got personally involved, and went down to the police station to officially declare that he’d absolve Edith Price of all wrongdoing, then she’d be released immediately.

As for the matter of who had been behind the theft: Jasper had only caught Edith deleting security footage. That was the only information that had been reported in news articles so far.

No one actually knew the exact contents of the footage she’d destroyed.

Singling out this crucial loophole, Zachary had called up Frank to make a plea for his daughter’s innocence.

He’d blame the theft on Willow Nason instead, spin a tale of seduction and intrigue, in which a lovestruck Jasper Hughes knowingly framed Edith Price for the other woman’s sins.

Having been fed this version of events, Frank Hughes was now in a foul temper indeed.

From the moment that Willow Nason had set foot through his door, earlier today, Frank had instantly recognized her as an employee of the family business. A mere cleaning lady.