The CEO's Empathy Pregnancy Pains

Chapter 244 Washing Hands of Any Responsibility

"Another subpoena? Hayden, how many people have we pissed off now?"

Evelyn was fuming as she snatched the latest subpoena from the delivery guy, giving him an earful before slamming the door. She turned to Hayden, venting her frustration. Hayden, caught off guard by this streak of bad luck, had no clue who was gunning for them this time.

He cursed under his breath, ripped open the envelope, and shredded the contents in a

fit of rage.

But then he saw the plaintiff's name. Hayden froze, his jaw dropping. "Emily? Seriously? She's really pushing it to the extreme!"

Fear crept in, overshadowing his anger. Emily was out to air the Brown family's dirty laundry, aiming to kick him out of Brown Corporation and tarnish their name in Emerald City.

To Hayden, it felt like a public slap in the face.

Staring at the subpoena, he realized Emily meant business.

Evelyn was just as terrified. Her pipe dream had crumbled. Not only did her daughter miss out on marrying Michael, the richest guy in Emerald City, but now they were being sued by Emily.

Stealing from others always came back to bite you.

That day had finally arrived.

With no one else to blame, Evelyn could only cry and curse her luck.

Hayden, seething with rage and nowhere to vent, stormed upstairs. He grabbed the despondent Sophia from the bed and slapped her hard across the face, leaving a red mark.

But this time, Sophia didn't fight back. She just laughed bitterly and yelled at Hayden. "Go on, hit me! Kill me if you want! At least I won't have to face court and humiliation with you! Stealing from your ex-wife, how could you? You can't even shut your daughter's mouth, and now you've dragged me and Mom into this mess!"

couldn't argue with her. She was right. So he slapped her again, harder,

to stop him, but when she couldn't, she knelt and begged for

he hit, the harsher her words. "Besides hitting us, what else

enraged, wanted to smash her head against the bedpost. He pointed at her, shouting, "How dare you, Sophia! If you hadn't schemed against your sister, Michael wouldn't have come after you, and you wouldn't be in this mess! Now you've got me sued too. I can't fathom who influenced you to become so ruthless,

in complete chaos, thanks to the subpoenas

servants went about their business, chatting and laughing, completely unfazed by

like two different worlds, perfectly showing that people's

days, Hayden was out

the gloom hung over the Brown family. Hayden spent his days drunk,

As for Sophia...

stand the sight of his daughter, so he locked her in her room

the key, even Evelyn couldn't see her. She could

didn't come home at night, Evelyn could only talk to Sophia through

had nowhere else to go without Hayden. It was better to

night, Hayden didn't come home

think of something. The court date is coming up, and the

Sophia

and, after some thought, came up with a name. "Mom, I need to make a

Evelyn asked, "To whom?"

Sophia replied, "To Scarlett."

Scarlett. My good daughter, you must talk to her and ask Scarlett

and her daughter saw Scarlett as their

a high position, and they

they know, Scarlett didn't care about the

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