"Please, Ned," Ingrid cried. "I'm sorry! I promise I'll find a way out!"
"You'll find a way?" Ned said furiously. "Fletcher Corporation signed the NDA, so we have to pay 30 billion dollars of compensation!"
"I'm sorry, Ned!" Ingrid held Ned's arm. "Please calm down. We'll figure out a way together, okay?"
Suddenly, Ned chuckled and thought this was his karma for treating Angeline the same four years ago.
Gritting his teeth, Ned stared at Tommy, who was kneeling and dared not to stand up. "I should've let you rot in jail back then!"
Four years ago, when Angeline insisted on getting Tommy punished by law, he shouldn't have used her relationship with Robert and Sean to threaten her, thus saving Tommy.
If Tommy had been sent to jail back then, he wouldn't have sold the formula today.
"Ned…" Ingrid kept crying. She tried grabbing Ned again, but he pushed her hands away.
"Ned! Wait! Don't leave!" Ingrid called for Ned, but he left without looking back.
As Ingrid was about to follow Ned, she heard Tommy calling from behind. With tears in her eyes, Ingrid turned back and helped Tommy up. "Are you okay, Tommy?"
"Ingrid, my arm! It hurts!" Tommy bawled. Half of his arm was dyed red from the blood coming from the injury.
"Hang on! I'll send you to the hospital!" Ingrid held Tommy up and left the house.
When Ned was driving on the road, he had been on a call with Trevor.
Ned stopped at the traffic light and pinched his eyebrows. "I'll try to contact Mr. Reilly. I heard Vitality's founder was back in Krontos. I'll see if I can meet them."
"That would be the best!" Trevor said. "Then we shall meet tomorrow, Mr. Fletcher. I got to go now!"
"Okay, bye!" Ned hung up the phone and rolled down the window. He looked out inadvertently and saw Angeline leaving a restaurant while holding onto a drunk man.
Ned's back stiffened as he stared at them.
The drunk man was stumbling while holding onto Angeline's waist. He was laughing while saying something to Angeline.
"Wait, isn't that Danny Reilly?" Ned thought as his eyes widened.
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