Chapter 280
She had never truly considered settling the matter in private. She had simply said that to give Wanda hope so that she could take it away a day later. Aver y wanted her to taste what it was like to suffer.
“Very well! Avery, very well!”
Wand a was so angry that her lips trembled. “I didn’t want to payfifty billion, to begin with!
It’s not like my money comes easy!”
“Well, let’s hope that you rbrother won’t haunt you when he dies,” Avery said sarcastically. “I wonder how you two split the twenty billion you stole from us.”
Wanda could feel her blood raging in her.
“Avery Tate… Just you wait… I won’t let you offeasy… My brothe r and my daughter… I will take revenge for them!”
“Oh, you want to send someone to assassinate me? Aryadelle’s surveillance network and the police force’s investigation skills have long surpa ssed the levels of what they were five years ago. I would recomme ndthinking it through.
Think of whether you can handle the consequences of harming another human being,” said Avery.
“After all,m urder and contracting an assassin are both punishable by death in Aryadelle!”
The blood drai nedfrom Wanda’s face, and she hung up.
Laura looked at Avery.
“Is Wanda still as arrogant as she was?”
“She has opened up a cosmetic company overseas which earned her a fortune.”
Laura lowered her gaze wordlessly.
“Mom, she opened that company with the money her brother stole.”
Avery knew what her mother was thin king and said, “Itdoesn’t matter how good she is at runn in gabusiness, nothing is going to cover up the fact that she was the one who got Dadkilled and left Tate Industries i nastate of bankruptcy!
She will get what’s coming for her!”
Laura nodded. “It was karma that her daughter died at such a young age. Avery, all I ever wanted is for you to be well.
I don’t care about the money.”
That night, Chad called Mike to invite him out for a drink.
Mike was at home at the time and Avery immediately turned to look at him when he answered Chad’s call.
Mike had too much to drink the night before and had decided to have dinner at home, but he could not seem to turn Chad down.
“Didn’t yo u drink last night?
Why are you drinking again?” Mike said while glancing at Avery guiltily “What, you can’t?”
Chad challenged him.
Since he had made peace with Mike, Elliot had ordered Chad to try digging out some informati on from Mike.
He wanted to know what had prompted Mike to start a company with Avery.
Could there be something else to the story?
Mike was young and would never a dmit that he could not drink.
“Send me the address. I’m going there right now!”
Mike hung up and walked toward Avery.
Avery gave him a sidelong glance and said, “Was it Chad?”
Mike flushed and scratched his head awkwar dly.
“How do you know?”
“Who else can get you out other than Chad?
Don’t youre member how drunk you got last night, and what you said to me this morning?
You said that you won’t be drinkingt his week,” she said.
“I meant I won’t drink wine this week.
Beer is like water to me,” Mike said proudly and stepped out onto the porch.
Avery followed closely.
“Haven’t you thought of why Chad is asking you out?”
“Huh?”
Mike paused while changing his shoes.
Avery told him about how Elliot tried to pryfor information from Wesley the night be fore and reminded Mike, “If Chad asks you the same thing, you don’t need me to tell you what to say, do you?
If you spill the beans, this is the endof our friendship!”
Mike clenched his fists in realization and snarled, “That Chad! He’s always callingm e with an agenda!
Damn it! I am going to get him so drunk tonight to teach him a lesson!”
“…
Don’t do that!
He has work the next day!”
“How’s that any of my business? Relax, I won’t tell him about you,” Mike promised.
Slightl y uneasy, Avery asked, “Ifyou are in a relationship with Chad, will you tell him?
“. “I won’t say a thing that you don’t want me to even if he was my wife! You saved my life and to me, you are always my toppriority!
” Relieved, Avery sent him off.