Chapter 23 Malicious Woman
“Hayden! Hayden!” Nicole yelled in the villa, but to no avail.
Lydia, out of patience, eventually rebuked, “Hey, you psychotic tramp! First, you shamelessly got pregnant before getting married, and now you’re here looking for your son. You must be absolutely sick in the head!”
Nevertheless, Nicole, focusing on her son’s search, didn’t bother to indulge in the argument before turning around and leaving after she made sure her son wasn’t in the residence.
It wasn’t until Nicole finally left that Queenie ambled down the staircase. “Mom.” She walked to the couch and sat down with a face full of joy.
Lydia glanced at her. Recalling Nicole’s behavior, she figured that Queenie had succeeded in her plan and revealed a relieved grin. “I thought you were attending F&M Apparel’s annual dinner. Why are you home this early?”
Queenie, who went upstairs to get changed upon her return, coincidentally missed Nicole’s visit. At the mention of the dinner, a trace of vexation flashed across her eyes as she clenched her fists. She reluctantly said, “Mom, it turns out that b*tch Nicole was F&M Apparel’s Chief Designer, Lisa.” She had never anticipated Nicole to undergo such a massive change in mere five years, nor did they know what blatant tricks she’d used to achieve such a high position.
“What?!” Lydia dazedly exclaimed as she opened her eyes in dismay. Nicole has been F&M Apparel’s Lisa all along?!
Remembering the embarrassing incident back at F&M Apparel’s annual dinner, Queenie couldn’t help but feel resentful, thinking it was all Nicole’s fault that she had now become a joke in the country’s upper society.
“Wait, you mean Nicole’s the Lisa from F&M Apparel?” William squinted his greedy eyes, almost to the point where his pupil couldn’t be seen.
“That’s right, Dad,” Queenie grittingly replied as she turned to her father. “Hell, she even used her identity to accuse and insult me on purpose! I can’t be any more embarrassed at the annual dinner!”
At that moment, Lydia lowered her head, contemplating, as if she remembered something before swiftly raising her head and turning to Queenie. “Queenie, have you done the thing?”
Seeing as William was still present, Queenie pursed her lips without uttering a word, but Lydia, who couldn’t be bothered by such a minor inconvenience, grasped her daughter and said, “Tell me! Did you do it or not, Queenie?”
Weirded out by his wife and daughter, William frowned at them. “What are you on about?”
Since Queenie couldn’t hide it any longer, she came clean about everything. “It was me who abducted Nicole’s son, and we’re going to toss him into the ocean, so they won’t be able to find him even if they looked everywhere!” Malice flashed across her eyes when she said that.
Enraged, William sprung up from his seat and gave Queenie a slap, to which her blanched face immediately swelled and the smirk on her face turned upside down. She peered at her father in disbelief. William had never beaten her ever since she was a child, but the smack he just landed was drawn with unrepressed strength, leaving a scorching throb on her cheek.
“Imbecile!” William bellowed as he glared at his daughter’s pitiable face.
Having been humiliated during F&M Apparel’s annual dinner, she was now served with a ferocious smack by her own father. Naturally, her voice started to grow tremulous. “Dad?”
“Nicole is now the Chief Designer of F&M Apparel, and she has the full support of the company. Do you think they will just stand idly by and watch as her son goes missing?” William rebuked with immense rage on his face. He grew so exasperated that his body trembled just by looking at his incompetent daughter before him.
Of course, Queenie hadn’t considered that far into the matter. Pressing her tingling cheek, she stared at her father with her reddened eyes. “But the child belongs to Colton, Dad! If he were to know about what happened five years ago and realize the woman was Nicole, we’d all be dead!” She frustratingly vented with her eyes thoroughly reddened. “Remember how you treated Nicole five years ago? Even if she’s now the Chief Designer of F&M Apparel, there’s no way she would ever help our family!”
Upon hearing that, William calmed down and regained his composure. Indeed, with how he’d treated Nicole and her mother five years ago, Nicole would surely hold that grudge forever. “Get the child home. I’ll handle the rest,” he wearily instructed. Having been affiliated with the business field for so many years, he was nothing but experienced.
Meanwhile, Queenie was still unable to comprehend why William would want the child back given that she could easily marry into the Gardner Family once the child was out of the picture.
