My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna) novel Chapter 449

"Josiah?" I asked, already feeling like my hunch was not far off the mark.

He shrugged. "Truthfully, I didn't intend to kidnap you at first because the cost was too high and I couldn't really bring myself to do it. After all, as long as the chairman of Alford Audit had a talk with you, things would've been fine. So, kidnapping you was not the best option."

I nodded and motioned for him to continue.

"But Josiah took the initiative to come to us. He said that he wanted to work with us when in truth, he mainly just wanted to work with Valerie. As I've been working with Valerie for several years, he used the Saunders family's audits over the next decade to lock in work with me. This meant that I not only got part of the Roberts Group's audit job, but I could even work with the notorious Saunders family for the next ten years. So, I agreed."

These were all well within my predictions and guessing, so it didn't really take me by surprise. I looked at him considerably calmly and asked, "What was Josiah's goal in doing so?"

He thought about it, shook his head, and said, "I don't know. When he worked with me, he just said that he couldn't hurt you. After our discussion on the auction, everything after that was set up by him. I wasn't really involved in it."

I pursed my lips. I couldn't understand why Josiah wanted to set up a fake scene between Andrea and Hendrix for me to witness. What was his purpose? Why did he force me to leave Hendrix that early on?

How would it benefit him?

After learning about these, I was somewhat calm. I looked at him and said, "Mr. Lewis, thank you very much for sharing these with me. But I'll have to think about working with you. After all, I'm the type to hold grudges."

His face suddenly fell. "What do you mean by that, Miss Reid?"

I looked outside the private room and leaned slightly against the sofa. Then, I looked at him with clear composure in my eyes and said, "You kidnapped me once. Do you expect me to keep pretending like it never happened?"

He said with his darkened face, "You remained unhurt through it all, didn't you?"