Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 230

Chapter 230: Chapter 230: Mutual Destruction

The group returned to The Metropolis Residences. Melody Summers thanked Sophie Thorne and Ronan Rhodes. "Thanks for everything. I’ll be heading home now!"

With that, she opened the car door to get out.

After a moment of deliberation, Ronan Rhodes decided to help his uncle, Roman, score some points. "Don’t mention it," he said. "It was mainly my uncle. He was so worried about you that he insisted I bring bodyguards to come get you!"

Melody Summers’s heart sank. ’Oh no,’ she thought. ’For Officer Rhodes to do this... it must mean he sees me as a total troublemaker. I’d better stay far away from him from now on.’

Melody Summers forced a smile at Ronan Rhodes, her heart pounding. All she could hope for now was that Roman Rhodes wouldn’t ask her to return the two handguns.

After Melody Summers got out, Ronan Rhodes and Sophie Thorne headed home as well.

Ronan Rhodes hesitantly started asking Sophie Thorne a lot of questions about Melody Summers’s preferences.

Sophie Thorne gave Ronan Rhodes a confused look, which then turned to one of dawning realization. "Did Yuri Walsh put you up to this?"

Sophie then said, a displeased look on her face, "You shouldn’t be playing matchmaker. Melody doesn’t like people meddling in her business."

Ronan Rhodes was completely baffled. "Why are you suddenly bringing up Yuri Walsh? What does he have to do with any of this?"

Sophie Thorne’s eyes widened. "You mean Yuri Walsh *didn’t* put you up to this? Don’t think I haven’t noticed—it’s written all over his face how he feels about Melody. Not that it matters. Melody has absolutely no interest in him!"

Sophie then frowned in thought. "Yuri Walsh himself is decent enough, but his family... each one is more difficult than the last. You probably didn’t know this, but Zara Walsh actually picked a fight with Melody at the banquet today. Seriously, you should stop trying to play matchmaker!"

Her words finally made Ronan Rhodes realize what was happening. He blurted out, "What? Yuri Walsh? How could he possibly be into Melody Summers!"

Ronan Rhodes buried his face in his hands, despairing. ’It’s hopeless,’ he thought. ’My uncle is over forty. How is he supposed to compete with a guy in his twenties or thirties...’

While Ronan was fretting for Roman, Roman himself was completely oblivious to his nephew’s inner turmoil.

Upon receiving Melody Summers’s message, Roman Rhodes immediately arranged a plan to arrest the Hayes Family and their accomplices.

With the evidence Melody Summers had sent, the entire chain of evidence against the Hayes Family was complete. It was time to close the net, and sooner than planned.

...

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Before the police could arrive, Clara Hayes frantically sawed through the ropes binding her with the dagger.

Her wrists were scraped raw and bleeding from the blade, but she paid it no mind. ’I can’t let anyone see me like this! Not even the police!’

Though Clara Hayes had the outward appearance of a brazen, wild delinquent, she was, at her core, a deeply conservative woman.

From the time she was a little girl, her mother, Mrs. Hayes, had relentlessly drilled into her that a woman’s virtue was her most important asset.

Mrs. Hayes had taught Clara that a woman must save herself for her husband, giving herself to him completely only after marriage, and that she must then remain faithful to him for the rest of her life.

Lily Adler had devised this plan against Clara precisely because she knew how deeply this would affect her. She was certain that after being assaulted, Clara would never want anyone to find out, and would not even dare tell Hector Hayes.

Once dressed, Clara ignored Young’s corpse in the main room and Ruby in the other, hastily fleeing the house.

Clara clutched the dagger Melody Summers had given her, not even daring to call for her driver. Her only choice was to run home under the cover of darkness.

What she couldn’t have known, however, was that while she was racing desperately for home, armed police had already surrounded the Hayes villa and taken Hector Hayes, Raymond Hayes, and the others into custody...

******

「It was the next day by the time Clara Hayes got home.」

When she finally stumbled back to the villa, looking utterly disheveled, the entire Hayes household had been thrown into chaos.

Hector Hayes, Raymond Hayes, and Lily Adler had all been taken into custody. The police announced they would be back the next day to seize the villa. Upon hearing the news, the maids and housekeepers had packed their bags and scrambled to leave.

The last remaining housekeeper was just about to leave with her bags packed when she ran into Clara returning home.

Seeing Clara’s state, the housekeeper’s heart went out to her. She grabbed Clara’s arm and said, "Miss, the police are about to seize the villa. You need to pack your personal things quickly. You and the other young miss should find a place to go!"

With that, the housekeeper scurried away, lugging two large bags.

Clara stood alone in the main hall, staring blankly at the empty villa. It felt like a dream.

’Did I fight my way out of one hell just to fall into another?’

Clara knew her family’s business wasn’t clean. As a child, she had even seen her older brother, Raymond Hayes, disembowel an enemy’s relative and use their entrails to feed the fish.

Now, the police were arresting people with lightning speed and were about to seize the villa. They must have concrete evidence...

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