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.

glasses, she said calmly, "I'd always thought that it was odd for him to open that hot

the hotel's guests were high-profile individuals with sensitive identities. "That's when we realized Beathan's true purpose. The hotel wasn't opened to generate profits. It was a private venue for these people

one of the glasses

and nodded her thanks 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 were helping him because he had provided them with

too far. You know about those deaf and mute employees, right? It turns out that they

of trust. No one will

If he hadn't, those people will silence him before the police can get to him, ensuring

took a sip of her

recalled the last conversation she had with William outside the courthouse. At the time, she had told him that Beathan would meet his end at the hands of his own people. This

the whole affair and the

disloyalty to the very people who had protected

plan. Still, she couldn't help but marvel at how effortlessly Emelie and

Jodie preferred to believe that it was the latter. If

Jodie noted, taking a

was the one who had told Emelie that the hotel's staff weren't really deaf and mute. Emelie gave a quiet hum