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“Isabella, come here,” Hayden called out to her.
Isabella looked up. “What is it?”
“Everyone has seen the video. We wrongly accused you back then. You
didn’t push Bianca–we misunderstood you.”
Isabella paused slightly in her steps.
Back then, she had cried her eyes out in desperation, fighting tooth
and nail to get the hospital surveillance footage, determined to prove
her innocence. But Tobias wouldn’t even give her a chance.
She had wanted the Taylor family to know that she wasn’t some
vicious person, that she hadn’t pushed Bianca, that she hadn’t hurt
her out of jealousy.
Back then, she cared so much about what the Taylor family thought
of her. But what happened? She never got the chance to clear her
name.
Now that her heart had died, these people came to tell her they misunderstood.
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She raised her eyebrows indifferently. “Got it.”
With that, she turned to go upstairs.
Tobias watched her retreating figure, his brow furrowing slightly.
He couldn’t help but speak up, “Isabella, I didn’t deliberately prevent you from seeing the surveillance. I just didn’t expect things to turn
out this way.”
Isabella turned back to look at him. “If this video hadn’t been sent
out, would you still be saying this to me now?”
“Yes,” Tobias said firmly. “I went to the security office this afternoon.
Before I received this video, I was already planning to clear your
name…”
Isabella let out a cold laugh. She looked at him without any emotion.
“That’s just your side of the story.”
“If the video hadn’t been sent to everyone’s phone, who knows–you
might have seen the surveillance and just ignored it.”
Tobias frowned. “Is that really what you think of me?”
Isabella said, “What I think doesn’t matter to you. Similarly, your
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opinion doesn’t matter to me either.”
This one sentence drew a clear boundary between them.
Tobias froze, then stared at her intently. “What I think doesn’t matter
to you?”
Isabella replied, “Does it matter?”
The answer was obvious.
Tobias’s expression darkened.
The air around them became tense as well.
Tobias felt a fire burning inside him, though he couldn’t quite say
what caused it.
With a stern face, he pressed on, “What’s your relationship with
William? When did you meet him?”
He had asked lan. In recent days, besides him, the only other person
who had checked the surveillance was when the hospital director
brought William from the Brown Group to review the footage,
When he first heard Ian mention this, he instinctively assumed
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William was just checking the hospital for any suspicious persons
related to the kidnapping, so he didn’t think much of it.
Now that he thought about it, what William was checking at the time
must have been this same footage.
Besides that, he really couldn’t think of anyone else who could get
the surveillance video and use a virtual number to send it via text to
everyone in the Taylor family’s phones.
“William?” Isabella looked at him in confusion. “What does this have
to do with William?”
She didn’t know who sent the video, and hadn’t thought to connect it
to William at all.
But Tobias stared at her intently, certain. “It was William who got the
surveillance from the hospital.”
At these words, everyone in the Taylor family looked somewhat
shocked.
The Brown family was one of the four great families, already a
household name.
And the person in control of the Brown Group was William.
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That man had a prestigious status and rarely appeared in public.
Many people knew of him, but few had actually seen him.
Rumor had it he was decisive and ruthless in his methods–not
someone to cross lightly.
“Tobias, what are you talking about?” Olivia looked at him in
confusion. “How could Isabella possibly know William?”
Isabella had only been in Emerald City for less than a month. She had
no social connections here.
Besides, with her upbringing, even getting her to meet some
socialites would be difficult–how could she possibly have contact
with someone like William?
“Tobias.” Chase also felt this was unrealistic. “Aren’t you overthinking
this? Even I’ve only met William once. How could Isabella possibly
know William?”
“Besides, even if Isabella really did know him, would someone like
William go to such lengths over such a small matter–going to the
hospital to check surveillance, then going through all the trouble to
send it to each of our phones?”
Being questioned by everyone like this, Tobias suddenly realized he
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must have been too angry to think straight.
How could he have thought the video was sent by William?
There were others who could access the surveillance–hospital
security, or maybe hackers…
Had Isabella, realizing she couldn’t get the truth from him, sought
help from someone else?
Thinking of the “friend” Isabella had been calling frequently lately,
and the “friend” she visited at the hospital, Tobias couldn’t help but
wonder–was it that friend who helped her?
Did she think even an ordinary friend was more reliable than him?
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Tobias looked at Isabella and said coldly, “You don’t need to trouble
outsiders with these things in the future. This time was my fault. I’ll
help you from now on.”
Isabella quickly replied, “No need. I don’t need your help with
anything.”
If it weren’t for Tobias this time, she wouldn’t have been wrongly
accused in the first place.
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