The Billionaire's Mistake

MISTAKE 50

Chapter 50: Investigating

"The book? Isn't his company cooperating with her? How is thus odd?"

"He started making payments a year and a half ago. The first payment being the largest," Neil elaborated.

"So, the book Autumn's Snow might be commissioned by him?" Daniel said with a slight

frown.

"If that is true, this man is much more complicated in thought than that," Neil said in

amusement.

"He commissioned a book with characters inspired by my wife?" Daniel asked.

"That is very suspicious. I check up on their history. Your wife and that man definitely knew each other at the university.

But from what I hear, they were acquaintances, at most slightly friendly. It is odd for him to do this. People do think that your wife's art is the inspiration for some scenes, but the author has not commented on this."

"She has; Stanley Forest told me this himself," Daniel said, and Neil raised a brow, taking a sip of his cola on the screen.

Daniel was having a headache. He had only had a bad feeling about Stanley and was slightly jealous of how close he was to Anya and wanted to know who he was.

He admits he barely trusts anyone and did not trust anyone near his Anya, especially in a business where things are put in black and white. He wanted to protect her from the shadows, not that she could not stand him. But why does everything look messy? He felt as though he had walked into a well-curated plot. He did not like being tested. His mood was somber; a hint of danger leaked from him,

suffocating the room.

"If she has said this to him, it means she must have said it to others in private. If these words. were passed around, it would explain why people suddenly feel Anya's work bears resemblance to art in the book," Daniel said.

"You have a point; after all, how do you write words to describe art and people will immediately resonate with the one in your head? Sounds too fake to me."

book was commissioned, doesn't that mean that these ideas were planted too? Why are they trying to connect that book to

like a heavy cloud holding rain. He had researched Anya Jones and knew

Daniel retains that she is his wife, making him feel that something had happened between them. He has been friends with Daniel since university, so he definitely knew that they

in between to cause them

should get her a good lawyer while I try to get my hands on the document they are drafting for her," Neil suggested. The moment these words were said, Daniel felt his head buzz. Daniel felt a rush of irritation. His

is quite a common name. Does she

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that,"

handle more than divorce. All of Anya's legal matters

a connection?"

"If possible,"

he said, then paused. "I got you an invitation to

have the time; I have an auction

trying to get

to send me to an

for information on it," Neil explained, and Daniel fell silent for a few seconds. "Thank you," he said to Neil before ending the call. He looked at his messages and saw the e- invite and got up. It was a black-tie event. Anya would be there. It made him

was his mother.

you found her? Are you

"he greeted, but she just kept

that

have not gone except for once; James must

paved the way and took you to see her, and you only stopped by once. I heard the first time was brutal, so you were probably discouraged. How can you be discouraged after one meeting? Where is your spine? Did it go

will see her soon, mother. Something came

forget why

the phone," Daniel heard a voice say.

elder's voice entered his

"Grandpa," he answered.

are you?" he

""Lincoln City,"

Anya in that city? You went there to see her?"