A Man with Nerves of Steel (Joseph Hart) novel Chapter 777

Chapter 777

Joseph began weighing his options. He could leak the business secrets Winona had told him to Cheryl, Yelena, or even Yasmin of the Croma faction. He refused to let the Dixons have a moment’s peace.

Thanks to Winona’s so-called mistake, the Dixons had Lyle return so they could work out a plan with the Zahns to take Cora and Joseph down. However, they had to put that plan on hold.

Owen had come down with a cold, which hadn’t gone away in days. He discussed it with the senior doctors of the medical sect, and they decided to have him undergo a blood transfusion.

As the newly appointed head of the Zahn medical sect, Joseph was entitled to take part in the discussion. While he was making the preparations, he also took the opportunity to take possession of the house where Rachel had lived and worked before she passed away.

The house hadn’t been abandoned, yet no one had lived there either. It had been used to store the medical sect’s treatment records and other files. The place was kept clean since someone came to clean the place regularly.

Joseph was searching the house for the lock that matched the key. It could be for a box or even a door.

That day, he was still in the house when he heard someone coming in. He was about to make himself known, but he saw it was Judy Johnston. As she walked inside, she looked behind her to see if she had

been followed.

After Judy entered the house, he saw her pay her respects to Rachel’s memorial tablet and wipe the altar clean. She stared at it as she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. Clearly, she was crying.

An idea suddenly crossed his mind.

He silently stepped out from his hiding place and stood behind Judy, clearing his throat. He never expected to give her such a fright that she actually fainted. If he hadn’t reacted quickly, she would have just crumpled to the ground.

Joseph caught her and slowly set her down. He called her a few times, but when she didn’t respond, he pinched the area beneath her nose to wake her.

When Judy came to and realized it was Joseph, she felt both angry and afraid. Not knowing what to say, she decided to get up and leave, but he grabbed her and refused to let her go.

To make things worse, he even grabbed her by the waistband of her pants, so she had no choice but to seize his wrist.

She said pleadingly, “Henry, don’t do this. Please let me go.”

Joseph said, “Last time, you used your looks to manipulate me and completely screwed me over. Now that you’re in my hands, do you really think I’d let you go that easily?”

“I… I was forced to do it. Please don’t make things difficult for me. I’m begging you. If you want me to let you go, that depends on what you do.”

“I… I’m on my period. I can’t do stuff like that. You… Why don’t you look for a prostitute?”

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Joseph could tell that Judy wasn’t lying. He asked a few more questions, and she had answered just as honestly, without holding back.

Joseph pulled out the key. Judy thought it over for a few minutes before suddenly remembering a hidden compartment with a keyhole in it.

He went over to try his luck, and sure enough, it opened a door leading to a cellar.

The cellar was pretty huge, and it was filled with mostly specimens-organs, embryos, and even human fetuses. There was also a cabinet filled with mostly research material.

Judy followed Joseph into the cellar. Seeing that Rachel had kept some photos of them together, she stared at them in a daze and suddenly started sobbing.

Finding Judy to be rather noisy, he warned her to be quiet, or he would kick her out of there. He found a large photo album stored in a plastic bag. He flipped it open and found a photo of Cora when she was very young. In fact, it was one of the first three photos in the album.

“Come here. What are these photos of women in the album all about?

Judy walked over to him. After looking through the photos, she said, “Edmund asked Ms. Yale to put together an album of pretty women. It included the prettiest young women they could find in Jenton back then.”

“The first two women were crossed out. Why?” Joseph frowned. The two women before Cora had been crossed out, but there was a check mark next to Cora’s photo. That meant she had been chosen.

The women after her had been crossed out too, until the 20th picture. There was a check mark next to a woman called Angel Hoffman.

Angel seemed strangely familiar to Joseph. He flipped to the information at the back and realized she had graduated from Jenton University around the same time he did.

More women were crossed out after Angel, with only a few marked with check marks. Cora’s photo was the third one in the album, and she was selected too. How absurd!

Judy said, “The ones who had been crossed out are the ones Ms. Yale rejected. The first two women were Owen’s women, and they both died giving birth.

“Only the ones with check marks passed Ms. Yale’s assessment. They were the best of the best.”

“Once they were chosen, what happened next? Are they just like you? Were they supposed to be surrogates for my father-in-law? Owen? Or even Edmund?”

“It could be any of them! About Ms. Lowell…” Judy fell silent. After thinking it over, she finally said, “I remember now. Back then, Ms. Yale said she hoped Mr. Skylar could marry a beautiful woman like her.”

So this was where it all began. Joseph had a feeling that all the problems and hatred started with Rachel’s idea. People didn’t just come to hate each other for no reason, and now he knew where it had started.

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Joseph put the album away. He realized there was a lot more to go through, but he didn’t have time for

hat today. He had Judy wipe off the dust since he planned to take everything with him later.

Finally, he looked at a photo of Rachel and asked, “How exactly did my mother-in-law die?”

“Ms. Yale died of an illness.”

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