Chapter 1099 So Many Missed Calls
“No, no way!” Lynette yelled loudly with a look of disbelief while shaking her head vigorously. Grandpa isn’t as important to Toby as that Sonia woman is? No, this can’t be true. This isn’t true!
It didn’t surprise Mitch that Lynette was unwilling to accept this. After all, this lady had always believed that her grandfather was very important to Toby. This was why she dared to act so high and mighty, saying that even if they’d make Toby angry by plotting against Sonia, she’d be able to protect him despite Toby’s revenge. Isn’t that a kind of baseless self-confidence? Well, what’s ridiculous is that I really believed this woman’s baloney in the past. “If you don’t believe it, I can’t do anything about it,” he said with ridicule. “But it’s true that your grandpa isn’t as important to Toby as Sonia is. Moreover, you’re only your grandpa’s granddaughter. So, do you think Toby will let you off for what you did? Do you think your grandpa will still be able to save you?”
Lynette’s expression was glazed as she couldn’t say a word. If Grandpa isn’t indispensable to Toby, Toby won’t let me off. Naturally, Grandpa won’t be able to save me. At the thought of this, she only felt as though the sky were falling down on her. Her breathing became rapid. Inwardly, she had started to become afraid, but she stubbornly insisted, “No way! This can’t be true. Toby won’t do anything to my family. He won’t!”
Hearing how she insisted on deluding herself, Mitch started to get impatient. “We’ll see whether he’ll do it or not. You’ll know the answer very soon. By then, however, your family will probably have ceased to exist, and you’re to blame for all of this. Say, if the Lore Family really ceases to exist in the end, are your dad and grandpa still going to spoil you as they are now? I don’t think so.”
Lynette couldn’t restrain herself anymore. Standing up from the bed right away, she held the phone before her and clutched it tightly with both hands. Then, with a ferocious look in her eyes, she yelled at the phone, “That’s nonsense, Mitch! You’re talking nonsense!”
Mitch snorted coldly. “Since you insist that I’m talking nonsense, just think whatever you want. Your willingness to bury yourself in a world of make-believe without stepping out of it to face reality is your own business. However, you promised back then that if Toby and his people were to find out about this and wanted to deal with you, you’d be able to save me. So, Lynette, now’s the time for you to fulfill your promise. I don’t care how you do it as long as you get me out of police custody! Do you hear that? I’m telling you, if you don’t do it, then don’t blame me for disclosing all the filthy stuff you’ve done. Try it if you don’t believe me.”
Lynette’s countenance changed again. “How dare you…” Just when she was about to say something, she saw that the call interface on her phone’s screen had been replaced by the home screen.
Mitch had hung up on her.
Lynette was so furious that she wanted to throw the phone away. The next instant, however, she recalled something and suppressed the urge to do so. Her face contorted as she mumbled through clenched teeth, “How dare you threaten me, Mitch? We’ll wait and see!” I grew up being spoiled rotten and fawned upon. Since Mitch is the first one who dares to threaten me, I’ll never let him off! Did he say just now that he was at the police station and wanted me to bail him out? Ha! As if! Not only will I not get him out of police custody, but I’ll make him spend the rest of his life in jail! We’ll see about that!
However, this matter could be put off until later. At the moment, the first priority was to find out whether what Mitch had said was true or false. Did the matter really come to light? Was her grandfather really not that important to Toby? Was Toby really going to deal with the Lore Family? These were the questions to which she wanted to know the answers the most. As long as she didn’t know the answers to these questions, she’d feel uneasy.
After taking a deep breath, she decided to go online first to check on the present situation in her home country. Before going to sleep last night, she had noticed that things had developed the way she desired on the internet, which was why she dared to go to sleep with ease of mind. However, little did she think that the situation would take a sudden and unfavorable turn in only a few hours. Therefore, she had to find out what was going on. Was her cover really blown, or did Mitch lie to her on purpose?
After exhaling softly, she calmed down for the time being and got ready to go online.
Just then, however, she suddenly saw her phone’s notifications showing a number of missed calls. She quickly opened the notifications, only for her heart to skip a beat when she saw the missed call notifications. There were actually so many missed calls from her father and her mother. Everyone had called her at least three times.
As her phone was in silent mode, she had answered none of these phone calls. Instead, she had only answered Mitch’s phone call because she had gotten out of bed, gone to the toilet, and come back; she had just lain down in bed when she saw her phone’s screen flashing before she could close her eyes completely. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to answer his phone call.
However, there had been so many missed calls in one night, and everyone had called her several times. Such a situation was clearly abnormal. It was obvious that something serious had happened, causing her parents to call her so many times. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have contacted her at the same time.
Despite her best efforts to calm down, Lynette started to feel uneasy again when she saw these missed calls. Taking a deep breath, she suppressed the urge to go online and check the situation on the internet. Then, she called her father.
Perhaps because the person on the other end of the line had been waiting for her phone call, the phone call was answered as soon as she called. “Hello? What were you doing, Lynette? Why didn’t you answer the phone until now?” A middle-aged man’s displeased voice sounded on the other end of the line, calling her to account in a somewhat agitated tone.
Feeling displeased at once, Lynette pouted her lips. At the same time, she felt a bit aggrieved. Like her grandfather, her father doted on her very much and had always spoken to her in a soft voice. He had never spoken to her in such a brusque tone as he did right now, let alone called her to account. This made her very unhappy, for she felt that her father was no longer how he used to be. “What else could I have been doing? I was sleeping! I’m not in our home country. I’m abroad, and it’s night over here,” she said impatiently to the middle-aged man on the other end of the line while stamping her feet.
On the other hand, the middle-aged man wasn’t angry when he heard the way Lynette spoke to him. After all, this wasn’t the first time his daughter had spoken to him in such a tone of voice. He even had to appease her whenever she spoke like this, and this time was no exception. “Sorry, Lynette. I was too anxious, so I forgot that it’s night over there. Don’t be mad at me, okay?” he coaxed.
Lynette let out a snort. After forgiving the middle-aged man reluctantly, she finally asked, “What’s the matter, Dad? Why did you and Mom call me so many times and even forget that it’s night over here? Did something happen?”
Hearing her question, the middle-aged man let out a sigh. “Lynette, you’ve gotten into trouble this time.”
Lynette’s heart clenched as she panicked at last. I’ve gotten into trouble? Could what that fatso said be… “D-Dad, how am I getting into trouble?” she asked in panic, holding the phone in one hand while clutching the clothes on her chest with the other.
The middle-aged man gave another sigh. “Lynette, your grandpa and I know that you like Toby, and we both support you two being together so that our family can keep on flourishing and prospering. But you shouldn’t have made a move by such means in such a hurry.”
