Chapter 471 As If She Had Seen A Daunting Monster
"You keep saying that you have no way out, but tell me, how?"
Charmaine wiped her tears and continued, "I was studying in Flauford, but one day, my dad suddenly called me to go home. When I got home, I realized that he wanted me to give up my studies and get married."
"Some girls in our hometown get married very early, so I didn't think much about it at first. I just told them that I don't want to get married now and we shall talk about that after I graduate from college."
"But I didn't expect that my father brought back a man the next day. The man was almost fifty years old. He was the director of a company. My father said that our company suffered a windfall loss and owed others a large sum of money. If I don't marry him, our whole family will have to sleep in the streets and live on air."
"Anderson, Clarissa, I have no choice but to run away from home. I have no relatives in Flauford except for Old Madam Jordan and you, I really can't find another person to help me."
Clarissa looked at her with a playful smile.
"You said that your company suffered windfall losses and your father forced you to get married?"
"Yes, that's right."
"Does this have anything to do with you seducing Anderson?"
Charmaine was speechless.
Her face gradually turned from pale to flushed. It was such a humiliating moment for her.
Clarissa sat there, looking as calm as a toad in the sun.
Playing with her slender fingers, Clarissa said nonchalantly, "The favor you were asking for, it's just a piece of cake for us. As far as I know, it's not the first time that you ask the Jordan Family save you a*s in the past few years."
"We're relatives and you're my mother-in-law's niece, so of course, we cannot just walk away. But honestly, you've gone too far today. If I do you a favor today again, it will appear to others that anyone can bully me and tell me what to do."
Charmaine's body began to tremble slightly.
She suddenly knelt down again with a "plop" sound and kowtowed heavily.
"Clarissa, I'm wrong! It's all my fault! I wasn't thinking straight! I'm being shameless! Please forgive me! I'm really wrong."
Clarissa frowned slightly as Charmaine was choking with sobs.
She was not a person who liked to be high above others. Even if there was someone she didn't like, she would just turn a blind eye to him or her.
"Where did she learn the habit of kneeling to others?" Clarissa thought.
She said in a low voice, "Stop kowtowing. If people see us, they will think that we have done something bad to you."
But Charmaine didn't seem to hear her. She kept kowtowing, and soon a bruise formed on her forehead.
Clarissa's brows furrowed even deeper. She shot a look at the servant standing beside her, and someone immediately came forward to help Charmaine up.
"Miss Cole, please stop doing that. Young Madam is of the same generation as you. If others see you like this, it will make her look bad."
It was only then that Charmaine stood up in tears. Her delicate forehead was swollen and her face was drenched in tears, looking really piteous.
"You said just now that your family's company suffered heavy losses? What's going on?"
Charmaine's eyes flickered as she stuttered, "I... I don't know the details. The family businesses are taken care of by my father and brother."
Clarissa turned to look at Anderson. "Do you know about it?"
Anderson furrowed his brows. He was in Flaucford, whereas the Cole Family was in Cloude City. Thus, he wasn't very clear on what was going on in Cloude City.
So he shook his head. "I have no idea."
Clarissa thought for a while and asked, "Didn't you tell Old Madam Jordan about this?"
Charmaine hesitated before saying, "I dare not tell her."
"Why not?"
From the very beginning, Clarissa felt that something was amiss. In the past, whenever something happened to the Cole Family, the first person they would turn to would definitely be Old Madam Jordan.
If Old Madam Jordan had refused to help, wasn't the chance of getting Anderson and Clarissa to help even slimmer?
Charmaine twisted the cloth fabric of her dress at the waist firmly.
After a while, she bit her lip and said, "My dad said that if Old Madam Jordan knew this, she would hate our family so much that she would not do us any more favors in the future."
Clarissa raised her eyebrows and became more curious than before.
"What on earth happened to your family? How can you be so sure that she won't help you?"
Charmaine pressed her lips together and didn't say anything more.
Clarissa remained calm and composed. She rested her fingers on the armrest of the sofa and looked at her quietly.
After a while, she said with embarrassment, "I heard... that a new batch of goods imported by the company have been detained in the customs."
Clarissa's eyebrows twitched.
She could sense that something was not right.
Clarissa pondered for a while, and suddenly her facial expression changed slightly.
"They found something in the goods?"
Charmaine's face suddenly turned pale, as she hurriedly explained.
"No, we were being framed. We definitely didn't put anything in that batch of goods. There must be someone with ulterior motives who wanted to frame our family and deliberately planted those things in."
"As the goods have been detained, we can't deliver the goods on time. As a result, not only we would suffer windfall losses, my dad would get thrown into jail as well. He said that if I don't marry Mr. Koch, our family will be completely ruined. On the contrary, if I agree to marrying him, not only Mr. Koch can keep my dad out of jail, but can also pay a sum to save the company."
"But I'm only in my twenties! I don't want to marry a man older than my dad. Clarissa, I'm begging you to help me! Now, except for you, I really can't find anyone else to help!"
Clarissa's expression darkened, and she said with a sneer, "But I still don't understand what does it have to do with your previous behavior? Or do you think that Anderson will be willing to help you when after you successfully threw yourself at him?"
Charmaine's face froze, and then she lowered her head without saying a word.
Clarissa's gaze grew even colder as she looked at her demeanor now.
She said coldly, "Or do you think that if anything happens between the two of you, you can use it against him and threaten him with it. Even if he doesn't want to help you, he will be forced to do so for fear that you will expose that?"
Hearing what she said, Charmaine's eyes widened in shock.
She looked at Clarissa in horror, as if she had seen a daunting monster.
Clarissa laughed mockingly. "There's no need for you to find it strange. I've seen far more sinister schemes than you've seen before. Little tricks like this would never be too difficult to figure out."
Clarissa said lightly, as she picked up the cup and took a sip of tea before she continued, "The goods of your company are being detained in the customs, which means that it involves smuggling of goods. If it's something else, Old Madam Jordan will definitely help you. But you know very well that the Jordan Family, which has always been honest and righteous, will never pitch in because this concerned with breaking the law."
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