My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

"Josiah?" I asked, already feeling like my hunch was not far off the mark.

He shrugged. "Truthfully, I didn't intend to kidnap you at first because the cost was too high and I couldn't really bring myself to do it. After all, as long as the chairman of Alford Audit had a talk with you, things would've been fine. So, kidnapping you was not the best option."

I nodded and motioned for him to continue.

"But Josiah took the initiative to come to us. He said that he wanted to work with us when in truth, he mainly just wanted to work with Valerie. As I've been working with Valerie for several years, he used the Saunders family's audits over the next decade to lock in work with me. This meant that I not only got part of the Roberts Group's audit job, but I could even work with the notorious Saunders family for the next ten years. So, I agreed."

These were all well within my predictions and guessing, so it didn't really take me by surprise. I looked at him considerably calmly and asked, "What was Josiah's goal in doing so?"

He thought about it, shook his head, and said, "I don't know. When he worked with me, he just said that he couldn't hurt you. After our discussion on the auction, everything after that was set up by him. I wasn't really involved in it."

between Andrea and Hendrix for me to witness. What was his purpose? Why did he force me to leave

would it

very much for sharing these with

suddenly fell. "What do you mean

room and leaned slightly against the sofa. Then, I looked at him with clear composure in my eyes and said, "You

darkened face, "You remained unhurt

mental ones?" Andrea's self-directed and -acted recording was disgusting, and it had disheartened her and made her give up on wanting to be married to Hendrix. In

still had more to say, but the private room door opened and in came a squad of uniformed policemen who rushed over to grab Michael. As he was getting restrained, one policeman

that his eyes looked like they were about

said faintly,

please make sure I suffer the same fate as Calvin and have me sentenced to death. Otherwise, when I come out, I won't let you have