Chapter 522 Darian Gets Married, Cecily Ties the Knot
Cecily sneered inwardly. Percy was still uneasy and wanted to hear what Josep would say to her.
Cecily averted her gaze and cast a cold look at Josep. "What are you doing here?"
Josep walked into the ward and closed the door.
Aware that his associates had already confessed everything to Blaise, Josep believed that Cecily was already aware of his involvement in the scheme.
So there was no need to pretend between them anymore.
"Are you really planning to marry into the Lockwood family?" Josep asked.
"Were you eavesdropping outside?" Cecily looked at Josep with cold eyes. "And what does it matter to you who I marry? The Fitzgerald family has already harmed me like this, isn't that enough?"
Josep clenched his fists. "I don't care who you marry, but your shares belong to the Fitzgerald family. Give them back to me."
"Give them back to you? Owen gave them to me, so why should I return them to you? And those kidnappers that day, they were your people, weren't they?"
Josep gritted his teeth and did not deny it.
Cecily continued, "The Fitzgerald family is truly ruthless. One abandoned me because of amnesia, and another wants to kill me for the shares. Now you even want me to give the shares to you. Dream on."
Josep was furious. "Those shares should have been mine in the first place. I don't care who you marry, but leave the shares with me."
"Forget it. I won't give the shares to you or to Darian. You harmed me, and he abandoned me. I want both of you to pay for what you've done."
Josep was well aware that if Cecily were to marry into the Lockwood family, Percy's ambitious nature would likely drive him to seize everything from her.
And now, seeing that Cecily was serious about marrying into the Lockwood family, he was about to explode with anger, thinking she was a fool.
"Cecily, where did your cleverness go when dealing with me? Do you really think Percy wants you as his daughter-in-law? He just wants what you have in your hands. When you marry into the Lockwood family, you'll end up with nothing, not even knowing how you died."
Cecily sneered inwardly. She knew very well.
She understood each of their intentions very clearly.
But Cecily acted particularly stubborn, as if she believed the Lockwood family were good people. She said, "The Lockwood family is better than the Fitzgerald family. I've suffered enough in the Fitzgerald family. Now, neither you nor Darian should think about getting these shares."
"You... Fine!" Josep was so enraged by Cecily's stubbornness that he almost lost it. "Stupid!"
Josep now understood everything. Cecily was a fool, and so was he.
They were all fools being played by Percy.
This whole thing was originally Percy's suggestion. He had wondered why Percy was so kind to offer him advice.
It turned out it was all planned.
Now, Percy had perfectly hidden himself in this matter. Josep became the worst villain, Cecily had completely given up on the amnesiac Darian, and Evander had saved Cecily, making her grateful to the Lockwood family and almost agreeing to marry Evander. By then, everything Cecily had, including the shares, would belong to the Lockwood family.
Well done, Percy.
Josep stormed out, and Percy, who had eavesdropped on everything, was extremely satisfied and completely at ease.
Everything was going according to his plan.
Soon, Josep's call came. It was obvious that Josep had figured everything out and was about to explode with anger.
Percy leisurely answered the call.
On the other end, Josep was furious. "Well done, Percy. Your ambition is big enough. You planned all this. I was a fool to listen to you."
"You just realized." Since they both saw through each other, Percy did not need to pretend anymore.
After all, he had leverage over Josep and wasn't afraid of him.
"Just you wait. I won't let you succeed." Josep said.
"Alright, I'll wait." Percy leisurely replied while sending an email to Josep.
There was a moment of silence on the other end.
Percy chuckled lightly.
"Mr. Fitzgerald, you can go tell Cecily that everything was my design. Of course, I can also send this evidence to Darian, letting him know that not only are you the murderer of Patrick, but also the murderer of Owen. Or I can make this evidence public, letting everyone see how you, Josep, killed your brother and father. It would be quite a spectacle, wouldn't it?"
Josep's heart skipped a beat, and a terrifying suspicion arose within him. "Sawyer is your man?"
"That's right."
Josep was stunned.
He realized that everything was Percy's doing.
Including Sawyer testifying for Cecily at the board meeting, protecting the shares in her hands.
Josep gritted his teeth. With this evidence in Percy's hands, it was as if his life was being held by Percy, and he dared not make any rash moves.
"You're so cunning!"
"Same to you. You're clever; I don't think you'd want us both to go down, would you?"
Percy laughed arrogantly on the other end of the phone. "Oh, by the way, Cecily will be part of the Lockwood family in the future, so you can't touch her anymore. If anything happens to Cecily before she marries into the Lockwood family, I won't let you off."
After issuing a warning to Josep, Percy, filled with confidence in his perceived control over the situation, ended the call with a smug expression on his face.
Josep was so angry that he threw his phone on the ground and stomped on it twice.
"Mr. Fitzgerald?" Mark, seeing Josep's furious state, instinctively took a step back.
"Well, Percy. You think you can control me just because you have leverage over me. You want to marry Cecily, huh? You want the Fitzgerald family shares, right? Dream on. You have a son, and so do I." Josep looked at Mark. "Go, bring Victor back to me."
Ever since Darian taught him a lesson at the Fitzgerald Manor, Victor had been in hiding, laying low to avoid any further confrontations.
"Mr. Fitzgerald, I don't know where he is right now."
"Find him!" Josep roared.
"Yes." Mark immediately went to find Victor.
Josep paced back and forth with his hands on his hips. No matter what, he couldn't let the shares in Cecily's hands fall into someone else's hands, or the Fitzgerald Group would have to change its name.
Meanwhile, Cecily, having done everything, sat calmly in the ward. She took out the phone that had been on under the pillow and put it to her ear. "They've all left."
Darian said in a deep voice, "You really plan to marry into the Lockwood family according to Percy's wishes?"
Although Cecily hadn't agreed to Percy just now, Darian could tell from her tone that she intended to do so.
"Percy has evidence that Josep killed your father. We need to get it.
We both know his plan. If we don't let him think he's won, how can we make him lower his guard? He killed my child; I won't let him off. He destroyed all my hopes for his plan and ambition, so I'll destroy everything he wants to get.
Besides, only by doing this will Josep and he turn against each other."
Today, Josep had thoroughly witnessed Percy's ambition. With the Fitzgerald family shares about to fall into Percy's hands, Josep would inevitably be at odds with Percy.
"But by doing this, you're gambling with yourself, putting yourself between the two of them." Darian's tone was firm. He didn't agree with Cecily's plan, and she hadn't discussed it with him.
"Cecily, I don't allow it. Why didn't you discuss this with me?"
Cecily slowly got up and walked to the window.
Downstairs was a small garden. She saw a mother holding her baby, the baby staying obediently in the mother's arms. They were very happy.
Her baby should have been like that too.
A shadow of gloom flashed in Cecily's eyes.
"Darian, I didn't discuss it with you. When you pretended to have amnesia to marry Freya, didn't you also not discuss it with me? You haven't touched Freya until now to keep up the act, right?
I know you're doing it to protect me. Since we've already started this, there's no turning back, right?
Next, you marry yours, and I'll marry mine."
Darian's heart suddenly tightened. "Cecily, are you mad at me?"
"I'm not. I just want to resolve this matter as soon as possible. I'm tired. I don't want to see any of us get hurt because of this anymore. I've already lost my child; what else do I have to lose?"
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