The Marriage License Was A Lie Chapter 08

The Marriage License Was A Lie Chapter 08

Meanwhile, the two of them lay in the ER getting their stomachs pumped.

Adrian was the first to be wheeled out.

His face was deathly pale.

One of his legs had just been set, and every time he got worked up, pain tore through the injury.

“How is Chloe?”

“Mr. Whitmore, please calm down. Your leg was just set.”

“Damn it. All of you, find Evelyn Blackwood for me. I’m going to make her pay twice over.”

“Ah! It hurts!”

“Mr. Whitmore, please don’t get worked up. You just had fracture surgery.”

“How am I supposed to stay calm?”

“Evelyn Blackwood made us suffer like this. If I don’t drag her out, I’ll never let this go.”

As soon as he finished speaking, members of both the Whitmore and Prescott families arrived.

“Adrian!”

“How is Chloe?”

Mr. Prescott and Mr. Whitmore both looked deeply worried.

“I’m fine, but Chloe’s injuries are more serious.”

Mr. Prescott’s face darkened at once, while Mrs. Prescott had already started crying.

“Who did this? Find out for me.”

“It was Evelyn Blackwood.”

“Her?”

Mr. Prescott and Mr. Whitmore exchanged a shocked look.

“Wasn’t Evelyn Blackwood just some small-town nobody? How could she command a squad of elite bodyguards?”

“I want the surveillance footage. Now.”

Not long after, an assistant came over with a laptop.

“Sir.”

Mr. Whitmore lowered his head and looked at the footage, his voice vicious.

“I’d like to see who Evelyn Blackwood really is.”

But when the two family patriarchs saw Scarlett, with her fiery red hair and ruthless, unapproachable presence, their voices died instantly.

“Grandpa, what’s wrong?”

Adrian saw the panic on their faces and could not understand it.

“This… this is impossible.”

“Why would she come to a small place like Kingston?”

“She?”

Adrian pointed at Scarlett.

“Who the hell is she?”

“She is one of the northern power players, the head of the Hale family and one of the capital’s Big Four families.”

“And above all of them stands the Blackwood family. Every person in power among them is dangerous.”

“Adrian, how could you offend someone like her?”

Adrian’s eyes flew wide in shock.

“What? That redheaded freak is the head of the Hale family?”

“Then what about Evelyn Blackwood?”

“Her last name is Blackwood. What do you think?”

This time, Adrian could not say a word.

His eyes were still filled with disbelief.

“Blackwood? Don’t tell me she’s… she’s from the family above the capital’s Big Four?”

Just as he said that, his assistant rushed in, pale with panic.

“Mr. Whitmore, something terrible happened.”

“Both Whitmore Group and Prescott Group are in trouble.”

The three of them jolted and turned toward the assistant at the same time.

“What did you say? What happened to our companies?”

The assistant had run so fast that he needed a moment to catch his breath before he could speak.

“Whitmore Group and Prescott Group are about to go bankrupt.”

“As soon as the market opened this morning, both companies’ stocks plunged. It looks like someone with serious backing is deliberately crushing them, and they won’t stop until the share prices hit rock bottom.”