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Chapter 487
Chapter 487
Chloe's eyes narrowed sharply.
She grabbed the guy by the collar again, demanding, "What did you say? Spill it, now!"
The man, visibly shaken, stammered, "That day, not even five minutes after you two checked into the hotel, Shawn stormed out, cursing under his breath, said he was off to meet someone and told me to stay back and keep watch over you."
"But when I got to the room, you were already gone. I searched everywhere, but you were nowhere to be found."
"And here's the kicker-after Shawn left, he vanished, too. No word from him at all."
The guy recalled something, shivering involuntarily. "Two days later, they found Shawn's body in the reservoir. I was there. He was all bloated from the water; it was a gruesome sight."
Thinking of Chloe's impressive skills made him uneasy.
Pointing a finger at her, he accused, "It was you, wasn't it? You and that woman, Linda, plotted to kill him."
Chloe's eyes darkened at the mention of Linda's name. "Linda? Why her?"
The man seemed to remember something but kept his mouth shut, scared stiff.
If Shawn had been killed by Chloe, she might just silence him, too.
Fear filled his eyes. On a whim, he grabbed a handful of sand from a nearby pile and tossed it at Chloe's face before taking off.
Chloe quickly recovered and was about to give chase.
But there was a river right next to the alley, and without missing a beat, the man leaped in, swimming frantically to the far bank.
Chloe stopped pursuing him. With his name in her back pocket, finding him again wouldn't be too hard.
On her way back, Chloe was lost in thought.
What exactly did Rat mean?
He claimed she wasn't assaulted. Said Shawn left the room in less than five minutes and then turned up dead two days later. And somehow, it was all linked to Linda.
Why was this story different from Linda's version?
What was the actual truth?
Why did the hospital visit suggest she had been violated?
If it wasn't assault, then what went down?
Chloe was desperate to unravel the mystery.
Over the next few days, Chloe went all out to dig up dirt on Rat. She practically became an expert on him.
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He even had a history of losing a cool twenty million in one night.
And Chloe stumbled onto a massive secret. That twenty million had ties to Lisa.
Chloe tracked the cash trail, which snaked through several accounts.
Turns out, Lisa was the one who transferred the money. And it coincided with her selling off her shares.This belongs to NôvelDrama.Org: ©.
Funny enough, that twenty million was Chloe's to begin with.
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She'd once seen Lisa talking to a lawyer about selling shares and figured Lisa wanted to offload the twenty percent Jacob had given her. Content belongs to NovelDrama.Org
So Chloe set up a shell company and snagged Lisa's shares, worth a billion, for just twenty million.
Now, Chloe held a whopping forty percent of the company, making her the top shareholder.
Back then, Chloe didn't ask why Lisa was selling.
When Lisa's shady dealings came to light,
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Jacob was so mad, it looked like he might have a heart attack.
Chloe smelled something fishy.
It wasn't that Lisa gambled it all away. She'd handed all the cash to Rat, who then gambled it away.
But Chloe just couldn't wrap her head around it.
Lisa, who cherished money like it was her lifeline, willingly gave it all to a scoundrel?
There had to be something Rat was holding over her.
His real name was Ricky, but he was known as Rat.
Chloe hunted for Ricky for three days. He was laying low, and she hadn't pinned him down yet.