Chapter 1107 Disreputable
"Take care of yourself," George said to Abella, tears streaming down his face. "Be happy."
As they turned away, it felt like the light around them dimmed.
It wasn't until the family of four left Long Island Manor that Beckett and Kimberly broke down in tears.
The trust they had built with George's family over the years, the intertwined bonds, and the time spent together felt like a mountain collapsing, leaving them stunned and heartbroken.
Their sons tried to comfort them, while Dennis approached Abella, gently patting her head as if to console her, or perhaps to tell her that it was all over and they would start a new life.
Abella felt a heavy weight in her heart.
Even though the truth had come to light, she felt no joy. Maybe it was because too much had happened recently.
Beckett and Kimberly couldn't sleep all night and didn't come down for breakfast the next morning.
By noon, Carl and Winslow had to muster the energy to call everyone down for lunch.
Abella noticed her grandparents and parents at the table, their eyes swollen and looking weary.
Beckett, his voice hoarse, finally asked, "At Abella's welcome party, there was a raffle, and someone who won a car got into an accident. Was it those two bastards who tampered with the car?"
"Yes," Abella replied honestly. "At first, everyone thought it was Henry's doing, to avenge Lola against the Medici family."
Henry's subordinate had called the vice president of a film company, who then called someone named Winifred. Shortly after, Winifred sent someone to tamper with the car.
The news that followed suggested Henry had forced his subordinate to death, making him the prime suspect.
"But it was all a deliberate misdirection by my uncle and aunt," Abella explained.
She had investigated Henry's subordinates and found they were threatened and coerced by George and Margaret's people, forcing them to betray Henry.
In other words, Henry was innocent.
George and Margaret had avoided tampering with the raffle cars themselves to distance themselves from the crime.
They had forced Henry's subordinates to do it, making Henry the scapegoat.
"Because my uncle and aunt had some illicit income that needed laundering through the film company, I found someone nicknamed Ghost. He not only laundered money for them but also hunted down Scorpion, the mysterious figure Henry mentioned. He's now in our custody."
Beckett's feelings were even more complicated. After a long silence, he said, "I wonder if there are still any of their spies in the company."
Abella had previously mentioned that her uncle and aunt had planted Jacob and Maria to spy on them and had also hidden loyalists within the company.
With countless subsidiaries under the company, finding these people would be like searching for a needle in a haystack.
As he was thinking this, Steven received a message from the HR director, saying that several subsidiary managers and vice presidents had suddenly resigned that morning, including some board members.
It was so inexplicable that the HR director had urgently informed Steven.
"Looks like those people were their spies," Steven said calmly, sharing the news with his family.
Kimberly, looking exhausted, said, "I still don't get how Jacob could control those drugged people and, after he died, have them follow Lola."
Abella explained, "Jacob mentioned in his phone that when the Umbra League disbanded, he secretly kept some drugged people in his territory. At first, he didn't know how to control them, and his people lacked pharmacological knowledge. Later, he found a robotic surgeon who implanted a robot's brain chip into the back of the drugged people's heads, accidentally making them obedient."
Abella then brought up another matter. "Jacob also mentioned in that phone that he and Maria had a secret stash of several million dollars, intended as a wedding gift for Lola."
Everyone was shocked that a butler and a "wet nurse" could secretly amass so much money.
At that moment, Kimberly received a message from her friend Wilhelmina, expressing concern.
She was about to reply when she noticed her favorite phone wallpaper had been replaced with a starry sky image.
When she opened WhatsApp, she found that her top contact—her beloved daughter Abella—had been renamed to "Trash."
Not only had the WhatsApp contact been changed, but the phone contact as well!
Their chat background had turned into a blank white page, and her photo album had been wiped clean.
She was furious. Lola had gone too far!
She changed the contact name back and messaged her friend Wilhelmina: [Sorry I missed your birthday. I wasn't feeling well on the way there, and then some family issues came up. I didn't get a chance to tell you.]
Wilhelmina replied: [No worries, no worries. I just wanted to check if you're feeling better. When I called your house yesterday, your daughter answered. She was so sweet and polite, the first thing she said was happy birthday...]
"Alright, let's eat," Carl said, taking charge. "I wanted to send those two to prison to reflect, but since Beckett made the decision to kick them out, let's all pretend they never existed. Let's eat."
That afternoon, two news stories went viral.
One was about Isla's execution, and the other about Lola being suspected of murder.
The gossip-loving public was shocked.
[Henry loved her so much and gave her such a grand wedding, but she had someone push Henry's mother down the stairs on their wedding day. I heard his mother had a heart condition.]
[She also caused a car accident to try to kill Henry's sister because she opposed their relationship.]
[So the most innocent victim in that car accident was the truck driver!]
[I heard the truck driver had elderly parents and three kids to support. His wife had to stay home to care for their youngest child and look after his parents. Now all the pressure is on her. It's so tragic.]
Along with these revelations, news of Lola kidnapping Beckett, Kimberly, Carl, and Winslow also surfaced.
Scorpion had a button on his clothes that was a micro camera Abella had given him, recording Lola's entire crime. However, due to the terrifying nature of the drugged people, which could cause public panic, the Medici family only provided a kidnapping photo to the media.
But that photo alone was enough to cause an uproar.
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