“Mr.
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Sullivan, would you like to watch it again?” he asked.
They’d already watched the video three times.
Victor’s face was impassive. It was impossible to tell what he was thinking, or to gauge his next reaction. His eyes remained fixed on the screen, just as they’d been since the first playthrough of the video. Currently, the video was paused on the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel, while Olivia stood by and did nothing.
Lukas had collected the footage and left the video for Victor to watch. It was evidence that the two maids had slandered Rachel behind her back, and had then provoked her until she’d lashed out.
The only reason Rachel had announced that she was the mother of the Sullivan Group’s future successor was to defend herself, and the reputation of her baby. If she had merely stood idly and let the maids degrade her further, both of them would have surely suffered from whatever gossip would have sprung up. She’d used this as her last resort.
Victor had severely misunderstood her, and the entire situation that day.
Suddenly, he was finding it hard to breathe. It felt like the broken pieces of his heart were piercing his lungs, tearing him open from the inside.
A violent crack of thunder boomed outside.
A moment later, a bright streak of lightning snaked over the dark sky, momentarily bathing everything in cold white light. The rain was relentlessly pelting down from the heavy clouds. It was so intense
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that it looked like it was about to drown the entire city. It truly was one of the worst, and most terrifying storms they’d had.
Victor recalled what Carson had told him earlier on the phone. The image of Rachel huddled under the eaves of some building flashed through his mind, followed shortly by the scene from the previous night where she’d been cowering behind the sofa with bread and milk.
His heart felt like it broke even further.
He tried to speak, but his first attempt failed. He couldn’t squeeze the words out past the Lump in his throat. He swallowed hard, and finally managed to say, “Call the people in the Sue Garden. Ask them where Rachel is.”
“Yes, sir,” Ivan said and dialed the number.
The phone was picked up on the second ring by Olivia.
“Ivan, what can I do for you?”
Ivan turned on speaker phone and looked up at Victor as he said,
“Olivia, is Miss Bennet there? I wanted to ask her something, but she isn’t answering her phone.”
Olivia’s heart stuttered fearfully. This was not what she needed right now. Why did Ivan suddenly want to talk to Rachel?
“Yes, she’s here. She’s in her room at the moment. I think she may be asleep. Don’t worry, I didn’t let her go out in this downpour. I asked her to help tidy up the living room, but that was all,” Olivia said calmly, managing to keep her initial spike of fear under control.
“You said she wasn’t answering her phone?”
“No, she wasn’t. Would you mind please fetching Miss Bennet so I can talk to her?” Ivan asked dully.
Another boom of thunder rolled across the sky.
Olivia looked out at the murderous weather. It was so dark outside it could have been night. She flexed her fingers against her palm as a nervous sweat broke out over her body. Guilt plagued her so intensely that she barely managed to keep it out of her voice.
“As I said, I think she’s asleep. Maybe she didn’t hear the phone ring.
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