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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he jeopardize Linda’s

curled into a sly smile. “As long as Elissa is

“Why should 1?”

closer, closing the space between them as if he intended to hold her.

glint in his eyes revealed his

are we?

her mouth, her expression hardening. “Do you want to safeguard Linda’s reputation

price for Linda’s wrath?

chin and meeting his gaze without flinching.

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

“Enough!”

against her lips to silence her. Her mouth kept

learning how to threaten him! so clever, yet why couldn’t she see that everything he did was for her? It was

loosened his tie,

large eyes, bewildered. What

WAS

a stalemate, Eric’s “new girlfriend” in the passenger

not voice her anger, softly

“Be quiet!

of tears. “Mr.

turned out the car had come to

twice, also

“Got it!

to relent, releasing

trembling as it brushed against his arm, Eric cast a

didn’t scold her or push

Hadley hurried to keep pace. “Eric, what’s your take on what I mentioned earlier? Deal

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or no deal?”

chuckled softly.

hands buried in his pockets, his eyelids lifting slightly.

ambled off with his new girlfriend, not sparing a backward

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

long would this

he pondered, the more Elissa would suffer. If he took too long, it could even jeopardize Elissa’s job

was she to

toward her. “Mr. Flynn

“Okay, thank you.”

nodded, clinging to hope.

suspense, not giving an immediate answer, was likely a way to release some of

for Hadley, yet none were truly

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