Chapter 532
Chapter 532
There was also the divorc agreement between Warren and Audrey.
Back when the Scott family went bankrupt, their house in Westbury was seized. Not everything inside had been cleared out, and Chris had found an old computer there.
After recovering the data, he found the divorce agreement and printed it out.
That meant the agreement had already been drawn up before the family moved out of Westbury,
Winter had never seen what was in it.
Chris had.
Under the agreement, Warren would keep all of the property.
Audrey wanted only Winter.
That made it very likely that Audrey had been the one who asked for the divorce.
“Still no sign of George?” Chris asked as he set the stack of files down.
George had been the Scott family’s butler.
After the family went bankrupt, Warren had let him go. At first, George had refused to leave. He stayed with Warren, Audrey, and Winter, even moving into a cramped rental apartment with them.
But one day, he suddenly left Liono City.
Winter had still been a child back then and hadn’t understood much of what was going on.
George, however, had been an adult and the family’s longtime butler.
He had to know a lot more than she did.
Gavin shook his head.
“We’re still looking p>
Chris said nothing more.
The charges against him for covering up Skyla’s crime and falsifying documents had already been filed with
the court.
On the sixth day of his detention, Gavin arranged for his release on bail.
Now Chris only had to go home and wait for the court to summon him.
But Dominic hadn’t shown up once since that day.
Even when Chris was released from the detention center, Dominic was nowhere to be seen.
Had things with Lily still not been resolved?
Or had something else happened?
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Chris hadn’t gotten his phone back yet, so he said to Gaviti, “Call Dominic p>
The phone rang for a long time before someone finally picked up.
Chris held the phone to his ear
Deafening music blasted through the line mixed with the sound of bottles rolling and glass shattering.
“Where are you?” Chris asked, his expression darkening.
Twenty minutes later, Chris walked into Nocturne, the nightclub.
The place had been shut down for a while after the incident there, but after making the required changes, it had reopened.
Gavin walked ahead and pushed open the door to a private room.
A liquor bottle rolled across the floor and stopped near the doorway, its clattering sound cutting through the gaps in the pounding music.
Chris frowned.
Dominic was slumped against the back of the couch.
His hair was a mess, several buttons of his shirt were undone, and he was completely wasted.
Dominic only lifted his eyes briefly before picking up the bottle again and drinking straight from it.
A hand suddenly closed around the bottle.
Chris was stronger in that moment and, more importantly, sober.
Dominic failed to hold on to it, and the bottle was pulled from his hand.
“What happened p>
Chris set the half-empty bottle on the table.
Dominic looked up.
The playful smile that usually filled his eyes was gone.
His eyes were bloodshot, so red they looked almost raw.
He looked like he hadn’t slept in days.
He sat with his legs spread apart and his elbows resting on his knees, then lowered his head and scrubbed both hands hard over his face.
“My parents sent Lily out of the country p>
His voice was strangely calm.
“They put sleeping pills in my water. By the time I woke up, she was gone p>
The calmer Dominic sounded, the worse it was.
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A man like him was always most dangerous when he sounded completely in control.
Chris had guessed that this was about Lily.
He just hadn’t expected her to have left Liono City.
“How did they find out p>
Dominic had been reckless in plenty of ways over the years, but he had always kept what happened between him and Lily hidden.
Not a word of it had ever reached his parents.
Dominic ran his fingers over the scab on the back of his hand.
The wound was from five days ago.
He had pinned Lily against the desk in her office, and she had grabbed the scissors on the table and stabbed him in the hand.
The wound wasn’t deep.
At that moment, Dominic had forced himself on Lily. The shock and pain had made her lose her strength for a moment, so the scissors had barely gone in.
His fingers lingered over the scab.
“I put Lily in the hospital p>
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Olivia Harris
An emerging author celebrated for her captivating romantic and steamy novels. With a talent for crafting deep emotional connections and fiery chemistry between her characters, Olivia’s stories offer readers an escape into worlds filled with passion, intrigue, and heart-stopping drama.