Chapter 202 Don’t Know What He’s Thinking

Hadley smirked, just as she had anticipated.

Fortunately, she had a backup plan up her sleeve.

Although she had made a pact with Linda, she made sure to be careful.

Earlier that morning, before passing Elissa’s phone to Linda, she had made a subtle shift. She recorded the video Elissa had captured of Linda tripping her.

In this age of advanced smartphones, any hint of uploading or transferring could easily leave traces behind… how could Linda not notice?

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That was because Hadley didn’t sent the video to her phone directly; she recorded the video anew using her own phone instead! She had also tucked it away in her cloud drive.

Taking a deep breath, Hadley picked up her phone, opened the video, and placed it in front of Eric.

“Could you take a quick look at this?”

“What’s this about?” Eric asked, feigning nonchalance as he stared at the screen.

His brows knitted together sharply… Linda actually pushed Hadley! Was it true?

Was Hadley hurt? Where were her injuries?

“You”

But before he could voice his thought, Hadley cut him off.

she tucked her phone away. “Flynn Group owns East Entertainment Media. I trust you can imagine the fallout if this video sees the light of day. If you release Elissa, I promise to destroy the video.”

What?

Eric was momentarily taken aback.

So she wasn’t showing him the video to play the victim! She was leveraging it to coerce him into freeing Elissa?

No wonder she hadn’t asked for his help outright–she had this ace up her sleeve!

Quite clever indeed.

“Did you use this to convince Linda to drop the lawsuit yesterday?”

“Yes.” Hadley nodded, nearly certain he felt cornered.

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jeopardize Linda’s reputation and future?

smile. “As long as Elissa is released, I’ll keep my part of

“Why should 1?”

Eric leaned in closer, closing the space between them

his eyes revealed his

me, are we? Hmm?”

her expression hardening. “Do you want to safeguard Linda’s reputation and future.

price for Linda’s wrath? The choice is

and meeting his gaze

to this, but since you’re so invested in Linda, this is

“Enough!”

pressing his thumb against her lips to silence her. Her mouth

insisting he cared about Linda, even learning how to threaten him! so clever, yet why couldn’t she see that everything he did was

his tie, gasping for breath.

her large eyes, bewildered. What was happening now?

WAS

“new girlfriend” in the passenger

voice her anger, softly reminding

“Be quiet!

the verge of tears. “Mr. Flynn, we’ve

turned out the car had come to a

on the window twice, also chiming in,

“Got it!

had no choice but to relent, releasing

against his arm, Eric cast a fleeting glance downward,

her relief, Eric didn’t scold her or push her

ahead, Hadley hurried to keep pace. “Eric, what’s your take on what

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Know

or no deal?”

He chuckled softly.

to a halt, his hands buried in his pockets, his eyelids lifting

new girlfriend, not sparing a

hadn’t expected that response–he needed time to think? When it came to Linda, was there

would this

If he took too long, it could even jeopardize

she

her surprise, Phillips turned around, extending his arm toward her.

“Okay, thank you.”

nodded, clinging to

Eric couldn’t possibly be indifferent to Linda. Keeping her in suspense, not giving an immediate answer, was likely

buzzed with familiar faces for Hadley, yet none were

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