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Chapter 590
While Shirley hesitated, Ember kept persuading her. "Mom, we don't even know if Dad would be abused while he's
being arrested. We need to get him out soon-you're the only one who can make the decision and sign the papers."
Shirley was soon convinced-bailing out her husband was the priority anyway.
Turning toward Zachary, she asked, "So? What am I supposed to do?"
A dark look appeared over Zachary's face just then, but he kept solemn as he said, "There's some papers you need
to sign.’
"Okay," Shirley said, agreeing to it right away without thinking.
Zachary took out the papers he prepared beforehand and handed it to Ember. "There's no helping it. Some of the
company's businesses must be sacrificed to save your father."
Ember took his words at face value and did not even check the papers before passing it to her mother. "You have to
sign it while Dad's away, Mom."
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtShirley's fingers clenched, but she braced herself and signed the papers, doing it so quickly that she did not read
the contents.
The first reason she did it was because she was convinced that Zachary would not lie to her, and these papers
would not have anything sinister behind that.
Secondly, she would rather that this would be over soon. Even if it hurt to give off the company's businesses to
someone else, she had to do it to save her husband.
With the papers signed, Zachary took them and put them in his briefcase." I'll go to Tim right now."
"We will wait for you," Ember told him.
Zachary merely held her gaze for a while, but said nothing as he turned to leave.
Neither Ember nor Shirley slept well as they waited.
However, while they were convinced that it was all over after Shirley signed those papers, it did not-instead, there
was now a formal criminal case against them.
To their bewilderment, they were notified that the police seemed to have gathered sufficient evidence to investigate
the factory fire.
Ember quickly went to Zachary's office to ask what happened, but he was not there.
Forced to return home, she just reached the front gates when she heard her mother yelling.
Knowing that something bad had happened, she rushed inside to see Tim Goldman sitting nonchalantly on the
couch with one leg over the other, as if he was at home.
Ember became as furious as Shirley right then, and rushed at him, intent on hurting him. "You monster! They took
away my father because of you!"
Tim scowled, but simply caught her hand and firmly knocked her away.
Ember stumbled and fell, and Shirley rushed to help her up.
They then huddled together, watching Tim fearfully-he was certainly hostile and bore no mercy toward them.
However, Tim was impatient too. "Stop making me waste my breath. Get out of here right now."
"You have no right! This is our home!" Ember shot him a furious glare.
That was when Shirley tugged at her and whispered into her ear, "No, we fell for a trap. The papers Zachary had
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmUS sign? It was not just concessions of some of our businesses-it was a transfer of controlling interest and all fixed
assets."
Ember's pupils dilated and she shook uncontrollably. "H-How?!"
She was still convinced-even lying to herself-that Zachary would never trick her.
Tim smirked. "Did you think I did this all by myself? Would everything really have gone so smoothly for me without
someone pulling strings from the inside?"
"I don't believe you!" Ember screamed in rage.
Tim merely smirked in disdain and gestured for his henchmen to throw them out of the mansion-it no longer
belonged to the Lindts now!
Ember and Shirley were both hence dragged out of the mansion and dumped carelessly by the road.
They never suffered such abuse, but more than that, Ember could not accept that Zachary was in league with Tim!
Abandoning her mother right then, she ran straight to Zachary, intent on questioning him.
He still was not at his office, so she went to his home instead.
There, she found Zachary speaking with his mother, and she stormed in furiously. "Zachary! Tim Goldman said that
you were in league with him and that my father was arrested because of you! Is that true?!"
Zachary slowly turned toward her with aloofness in his eyes.
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