Winning Her Heart back (Emelie and William)

Chapter 856 Emelie Planned to Bring Them Down

"How could that happen?" Emelie paused her work. "Weren't we watching him the whole time?"

Jodie frowned. "We were, but he used a decoy. He swapped clothes with one of his men in the car, and our people didn't catch that. By the time the police showed up to arrest him, he was already gone."

Emelie twirled a pen between her fingers as a hint of admiration flashed in her eyes. "I've always known that lizards will sever their tails to escape danger, but I didn't expect a snake to do the same."

"The police are already searching for him," Jodie continued. "I've also deployed our own team. There's no way he can get far. We've got him surrounded."

"There's a third party involved now," Emelie said as she tapped her pen against the computer screen. The screen displayed the news about the hot spring hotel and its fake deaf and mute employees.

Jodie glanced at the screen and added cryptically, "If we or the police get to him first, he might at least stand a chance. But if those people find him... then he's as good as dead."

Exactly.

Emelie stood up and walked to the small bar in the corner. She grabbed a bottle of red wine and expertly uncorked it with a bottle opener.

it was odd for him to open that hot spring hotel. After all, a lawyer investing

work, we've finally uncovered the real issue. 70% of the hotel's guests were high-profile individuals with sensitive identities. "That's when we realized Beathan's true purpose. The hotel wasn't

one of the glasses

before saying, "Ms. Thornton was puzzled about how Beathan was able to get those forged medical records and bail, despite his situation. It turns out that these high-profile individuals

her glass. "It was all smooth sailing until he went too far. You know about those deaf and mute

major violation of trust. No one

"And that is why Beathan had to run. If he hadn't, those people will silence him before

a sip of

last conversation she had with William outside the courthouse. At the time, she had told him that Beathan would meet his end at the

around the whole affair and the "fastest turnaround in

to expose Beathan's disloyalty to the very people who

Still, she couldn't help but marvel at how effortlessly Emelie and William had devised

Jodie preferred to believe

Russo too," Jodie noted,

staff weren't