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.

the deep red liquid into two glasses, she said calmly, "I'd always thought that it was odd for him to open that hot spring hotel. After all,

when we realized Beathan's true purpose. The hotel wasn't opened to generate profits.

of the glasses

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

You know about those deaf and mute employees,

major violation of trust. No one will tolerate him

Beathan had to run. If he hadn't, those people will silence him before the police can get

sip of

time, she had told him that Beathan would meet his end at the hands of his own

affair and the "fastest turnaround in

real goal was to expose Beathan's disloyalty to the very people who had protected him. And eavesdropping was an

was beginning to understand Emelie's broader plan. Still, she couldn't help but marvel at how effortlessly Emelie and William

Jodie preferred to believe that it was the latter. If it were the former,

suppose we should thank Mrs. Russo too," Jodie noted,

that the hotel's staff weren't really deaf and