Chapter 345 Zane’s Return
“A perfect chance?” Sonia knitted her eyebrows in confusion. “What are you trying to suggest?”
“Haven’t you always wanted to send Tina to prison? Well, here comes your opportunity. That man is your witness, and I’ve already sent someone after him. After capturing him, he is going to tell us everything Tina told him to do, and that’ll become our evidence to put her behind bars,” Toby answered with a deep voice.
While his goal was always to put Tina in prison, he initially intended to have Tom set Tina up and catch her red-handed. However, Tina, who had been staying in the hospital for the past few days, didn’t go anywhere else, even after returning home. Thus, Tom couldn’t find an opportunity to execute his plan, which was the reason Tina still hadn’t been punished. Therefore, now that an opportunity to gather Tina’s criminal evidence presented itself, Toby wasn’t about to let it slip away.
On the other hand, Sonia’s eyes lit up when she heard Toby’s explanation. Well, this is indeed an opportunity. Tina may be on her probation for now, but if she ever commits a crime, she’ll be sent to prison right away. Although she hasn’t done anything against the law at the moment, she can never get away with the evidence that can prove she is guilty of the crimes she did earlier. “I get you now, President Fuller. Thank you so much.” Sonia smiled gratefully.
“You don’t have to thank me. I’m not just doing this for you, but for myself as well. In fact, I’m trying to atone for the mistakes I made in the past,” Toby looked down and answered.
“President Fuller…” Sonia’s smile faded.
“Alright, Sonia, I have something I must attend to, so I’m going to hang up the call right now. When that man arrives in Seafield, I’ll let you know. Goodbye.” Toby hung up his phone, knowing that Sonia was about to push him away with her disheartening words. Thus, he cut her short, refusing to hear what she was going to say.
In the meantime, Sonia was staring at the home screen on her phone while raising her eyebrows. After all, that was the first time Toby hung up on her ever since he confessed his love to her. What does he have to hide from me?
Meanwhile, Tom, who was in the ICU, took Toby’s phone and put it on the headboard. “What’s wrong, President Fuller?” Deep down, he was wondering why his boss would hang up the call so abruptly. Why did he hang up in such a hurry? Man, he looked like he was trying to avoid some loan sharks who were after him for money.
“Nothing.” Toby pursed his lips.
“In that case, perhaps I should return to the office.” Tom wanted to excuse himself.
“Hmm… Yes, please,” Toby replied before his assistant turned around and walked away.
Later that night, Zane returned to Seafield from Norfolk and made his way to the hospital after his touchdown as he learned from Tom that Toby had been hospitalized earlier that day. The moment he saw Toby lying in bed, he placed his hand on his belly and gloated with a loud laugh. “Oh boy! You look so charming in this outfit, Toby! Haha!”
“Shut up!” Toby bellowed as his temples were suddenly covered in veins.
At that moment, Zane faked a few coughs and forced a smile, waving his hand as he replied, “Alright. Alright, I’ll knock it off now, but what happened to you? How did you end up in the hospital?” Although he had asked Tom what happened to Toby earlier that day, he was only given a perfunctory answer without exact details behind Toby’s injury. Thus, he couldn’t help but feel curious about the reason that put Toby in the hospital.
“It was an accident. Alright, let’s talk about business now.” Toby looked down and spoke with a cold voice.
Sensing his reluctance to reveal more about his injury, Zane pursed his lips and answered, “What exactly are you hiding from me? Fine. Fine, have it your way if you don’t want to tell me. I’m not interested in knowing it anyway. By the way, why did you capture one of my men?”
“Your man drugged Sonia, and you’re asking me why?” Toby fixed his eyes on his friend in a cold manner.
“Sonia was drugged? How was that possible?!” Zane was stunned upon hearing that. After all, Sonia hadn’t been to his club for the past few months, so he couldn’t possibly figure out how his employees were able to drug her.
“Not now, but three months ago. It happened on the same day as the incident between me and Sonia took place. Your employee was bribed by Tina to spike Sonia’s drink.” Toby knitted his eyebrows while suppressing his anger.
On the other hand, Zane was still caught in his trance until a few moments later. Then, he replied with a darkened look on his face. “I swear I was completely unaware of this incident!”
“I knew you weren’t aware, but if I hadn’t initiated an investigation, I would have been as confused as you are. Furthermore, Tina even sent another man to violate Sonia. Here is the security footage from that night. Tom went to your club earlier and asked for a copy of it, so take a look for yourself.” Toby reached for his phone and showed his friend the video.
When Zane received Toby’s phone, he proceeded to watch the video in a panicky manner. In fact, the video was the security footage that Toby sent to Sonia earlier. A few minutes later, Zane finished watching the video as he wrapped his fingers around the phone tightly without saying a single word.
Then, Toby fixed his glacial eyes on his friend. “I told you to take care of the security footage the next day after the incident happened. Why didn’t you spot the man?”
Realizing his huge mistake, Zane guiltily replied, “I’m sorry. I know you told me to take care of the security footage so that Sonia wouldn’t find out about it when she woke up. Although I did tell the guards in the security room to store the footage elsewhere, I didn’t go through the video myself, so I was unaware of what happened that night.”
Since he wasn’t interested in Sonia at that time, it didn’t occur to him to help Sonia for her sake. In fact, Sonia did approach him the next day to ask for his help to view the security footage, but even so, he directly told her that nothing was wrong without watching it at all. Now, he regretted it and beat himself up for his indifference and selfishness.
Upon hearing Zane’s words, Toby knitted his eyebrows, clearly expressing his annoyance and dissatisfaction. On the other hand, Zane could tell that he wasn’t happy as a bitter look showed on his face. “Are you blaming me for not checking out the footage back then, Toby?”
While Toby squinted and showed an ambiguous stance, Zane chuckled and added, “Be reasonable, Toby. Even if I did check out the security footage at that time, what else would you have done after doing some digging about the man? I doubt you would have stood up for Sonia anyway back then.”
Toby’s face changed, like something just sprang to his mind. Then, Zane grunted coldly and continued to say, “You only had eyes for Tina back then. So, even if you did find out who Tina sent after Sonia, you would still have been blinded by your obsession with her and protected her like nothing ever happened. Thus, don’t you think it’s a little unfair to hold me responsible for that right now?”
Toby was rendered speechless as he squinted because Zane was merely speaking the truth. Although he hadn’t been hypnotized at that point, his obsession with Tina would have prompted him to protect her even if he had found out that she sent someone to violate Sonia. Therefore, he was in no position to blame Zane.
Looking at Toby’s disheartened look, Zane let out a sigh and said, “Fine, it’s pointless to discuss something that happened a long time ago. Instead, we should focus on how we can resolve the issue and atone for our mistakes. For that, I guess you can do whatever you want to that waiter.” Considering Toby’s feelings for Sonia, Zane was sure that it wouldn’t end well for that waiter.
“As for Sonia…” He expressed his helplessness, as he didn’t know what to do next. After all, Zane was also at fault for lying about the security footage.
If I apologize to Sonia, she will know that I lied to her that nothing was wrong with the security footage. By then, she is going to be so mad at me. Also, she may even find out that I’ve been hiding the truth about Toby being her child’s father from her. If it really comes to that, she is probably even going to cut ties with me.
At the thought of that, Zane scratched his head with annoyance. Man, what the hell is wrong with me?! If I hadn’t known I was going to fall for Sonia, I shouldn’t have helped Toby, and I wouldn’t have gotten myself into this mess.
While Zane glared at Toby with a gaze burning in grudge, the latter only pursed his lips and calmly replied, “There is no need to dwell on the problem. Sonia’s child has been aborted, and she already knew that I was Z-H, as well as the child’s father.”
After Toby’s confession, the atmosphere in the ward stiffened in silence for a few moments until Zane clenched his fists in terror. “W-What did you just say? Sonia already found out that you were her child’s father?”
“Yes!” Toby’s eyes were filled with coldness. Just when everything seemed to take a turn for the better between him and Sonia, the shocking revelation simply just undid all the positive progress and reversed everything back to square one.
Nevertheless, Toby refused to suffer from the repercussions of the incident alone and was determined to drag Zane down with him. We’re like comrades, Zane. So if I’m going down, you’re going down with me.
