The CEO's Lovely Twins novel Chapter 176

"How much I know depends on how much you are willing to admit it. As for the final result of the lawsuit, I was just the duty officer on the day of the fire, and I had to resign and find a new job too. "

Hayden looked at Arnold’s wife, and her wording was ambiguous.

Arnold’s wife had been nursing a grievance for some time. After hearing this, she couldn't help but assume the worst side and told the truth all at once.

Everyone who knew Arnold knew that he liked to smoke, and he couldn't quit his addiction to smoking. For this, he deliberately broke the fire extinguishing device in the kitchen storage room so that it wouldn't detect the smoke and activate the alarm system. But he was cautious too by taking the cigarette butts out of the kitchen every time after smoking. And there wouldn't be any spark of the cigarette to cause the fire.

The situation of that day was as usual, except that when Arnold smoked in the storage room, he saw Baron there and caught him committing arson. The two argued, and the cigarette fell on the flammable materials, which caused things out of control.

Afterward, Baron kneeled in front of Arnold, pleading for forgiveness. Arnold was soft-hearted, and he decided to bear the consequences by resigning and leaving the hotel.

Arnold and his wife treated Baron as their own son, hoping for a person to take care of them in their old ages. But there were always those who would never be grateful. After Baron's conversion to the hotel, he was afraid of being implicated by Arnold about the fire. So he made a call to them, breaking the hearts of the old couple.

"This heartless little brat, he threatened Arnold that he would tell others that the fire extinguishing device was destroyed by him if he revealed the truth. Then, all the property damage losses were to be borne by us."

Hayden frowned, pondering. If Baron had such a bad personality, it wouldn't be surprising for him to commit the arson as long as someone gave him a generous reward to do it.

The first thing that came into her mind was a figure that she saw in the crowd when coming out of the fire that day, Addison.

She thought over that Addison was the greatest beneficiary of this affair, and she had sufficient motivations to do it.

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The next afternoon, Hayden took a flight back to Nanking.

The fire's truth was basically clear, but it wouldn't be easy to find out the one behind all of this.

On the plane, the flight attendants were seating the passengers.

"Ms. Downey is it?"

The flight attendant's sweet voice sounded, and Hayden got her mind back from outside the window, "Yes. I am."

"Well, we've upgraded you to business class."

Hayden was stunned for a moment, "Why?"

"I'm not quite sure about it. But this seat is now occupied by someone else. Can you follow me to your seat in the business class?"

Hayden was bewildered as she followed the flight attendant to the business class.

"Ms. Downey, this is your seat. Feel free to call me if you need anything."

"Sure."

Hayden responded as she sat down in her seat. She glanced sideways at the man beside her, whose face was just blocked by the newspaper. She was startled, "Mr. Sanchez?"

Cleveland revealed his face from the newspaper. He was wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and his eyes were hiding his emotions. "Ms. Downey, we meet again."

Hayden was alarmed as if everything was as expected to him.

"So, it's Mr. Sanchez who arranged for the upgrade of my cabin?"

Cleveland held up his glasses. The distinguishing personality traits of a business elite were reflected in him. Even the way he talked was so comprehensive, "I just heard that Ms. Downey happens to be on the same flight as me. So I just instructed them and hope that you have a comfortable journey. After all, I still owe you a favour. Having you to come to me initiatively is unlikely to happen."