Chapter 287
After taking his medicine, Leo quickly drifted off into a groggy sleep
When he woke up again, it was already the next day.
After eating the breakfast the nurse brought him, he looked a lot healthier than before.
After a while, Nicole and her mother, Mavis, pushed the door open and walked in.
Mavis smiled warmly at him and asked, “Honey, did you sleep well last night?”
Leo’s face turned cold. “Don’t call me that. It makes me sick.”
Mavis’s smile faded. “Well, Leo, now that you’ve had a good rest, shouldn’t you sign the agreement?”
She was just waiting for him to come begging her for help later.
Leo asked, “If I sign the agreement, are you sure you’ll let me go?”
Mavis nodded. “Absolutely.”
Leo took the agreement from her, gave it another look, and signed it.
Mavis handed him an ink pad and asked him to put his fingerprint on the document.
Leo did as she asked.
Mavis hadn’t expected Leo to be so quick to agree this time.
‘Looks like that medicine really did the trick. Even someone as stubborn as him ended up caving in, she thought.
Leo asked, “Can I leave now?”
But Mavis replied, “Not yet. You’ll have to wait until all the assets are transferred to Nicole’s name before you can go.”
Letting Leo go now was just too risky-too many things could go wrong.
For the next few days, she’d keep giving him that sedative; she needed to make sure he got really hooked on it.
She’d cut him off from the meds just a few days before letting him go, so he’d be stuck with her, no way out.
That way, even after he got out, he wouldn’t breathe a word about being kept under lock and key-he’d be too desperate to keep coming back for the meds.
Leo’s face darkened. “Are you playing games with me?”
Mavis smiled. “We said we’d let you go, but we never said when, did we?
“Relax. As soon as the assets are in place, I’ll make sure you get home myself.
Leo narrowed his eyes. “Fine. Just make sure you don’t end up regretting it.”
Mavis replied, “No way we will.”
‘Regret having too much cash to burn? Yeah, right, she thought.
Leo couldn’t stand having Mavis and Nicole in the room any longer. “Just get out,” he said.
He knew deep down they weren’t about to let him walk out today.
He’d endured all this crap just to get solid evidence that they were keeping him locked up and forcing him to sign over his
assets.
Mavis picked up the agreement. “Alright, I’ll come see you in a couple of days.”
Once she and Nicole secured the assets, she’d sell off the old family house and buy herself a luxury villa.
She’d keep Leo in that new villa, making him live under her thumb day in and day out.
She couldn’t wait to see Kevin and his brothers’ jaws hit the floor when they found out.
With this agreement, the entire Hammond family fortune would be theirs-not a dime left for Kevin or his brothers.
Once Mavis and Nicole left, Leo yanked the blanket up and pretended to doze off.
Hidden under the covers, he tapped a button on his watch in a secret pattern, pressing it several times in a row. When he felt the button click back into place, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Good thing he’d installed a tracker in his watch
d Nicole.
Successfully unlocked!
And he’d already had Kevin set up the tracking.
As soon as he used the tracker, it meant he was stuck and Kevin should come find him.
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Meanwhile, Kevin was back at the old family house, grabbing some stuff, when his phone suddenly started blaring like an alarm.
He snatched it up and saw that the tracking app his dad had installed had been activated
‘Dad’s in trouble, Kevin thought, his heart skipping a beat.
After thinking it over, Kevin called Alicia.
“Ally, Dad’s in trouble. He just activated the tracker-he wants us to go get him,” Kevin said, his voice urgent.
Alicia asked, “Has he been staying with Mavis and Nicole lately?”
Kevin replied, “Yeah, Dad messaged me saying he had to go on a trip with Mavis so she’d agree to the divorce-so they could part ways peacefully.
“I tried to video call him, and he picked up at the airport, but just said something and hung up right away.
“So it looks like Mavis and Nicole have him locked up?
“Looks like his tracker’s pinging from a private hospital in Irisport.”
Alicia replied, “Dad’s not the type to just tag along on a trip after all the crap Mavis pulled.
“Chances are, Mavis and Nicole already had him locked up days ago.”
Kevin stared. “Wait, but I did a video call with him that day.”
Alicia rolled her eyes. “Come on, haven’t you heard of Al deepfake video calls?”
Kevin nodded. “Now that you say it, that actually makes sense-it could’ve been a deepfake. He just said one thing and hung up super fast.”
He’d never dealt with anything like that before. It looked and sounded exactly like Dad, and the airport background seemed legit, so he didn’t suspect a thing.
Who would’ve guessed they’d pull out high-tech stuff like that to mess with them?
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Lucia Morh is a passionate storyteller who brings emotions to life through her words. When she’s not writing, she finds peace nurturing her garden.