A Moment in Destiny novel Chapter 604

Hudson looked at it and nodded, but he didn’t know who the sender was. He signed the packet and stared at it as he placed it on the table. He opened it and realized that it was a USB flash drive!

He was taken aback. He frowned and plugged it into his laptop. A video showed a large and luxurious bedroom. Someone was screaming for help and at the same time he could hear a man panting noises, “Hudson, please, I’m not Esther…”

It was Winnie, it was Winnie! The shot was elegant, but it wasn’t really clear. Even so, he could tell who the woman was!

She grasped onto the man tightly and was saying his name over and over indistinctly.

(Indescribable)…

“No…” Hudson slammed the laptop shut, how could it be? How could it be Winnie?

He was stunned and shocked. It was Winnie who was with him last night. He was greatly shocked that he couldn’t speak!

Hudson closed his eyes! He tried to suppress the shock and the confusion he was feeling. He tried to stay calm and played the video again. He watched it patiently and it was him who kept asking for more from Winnie. She was crying throughout the night and she was in pain. She looked happy but at the same time, her face was filled with despair and sorrow. He hurt her!

He thought that he could question her, ask her why she was there. But it looked like she didn’t want it yet he still forced himself on her!

No! Someone had to trick him! Why would he do that?

Even though he practically raped her multiple times last night, he still thought that someone plotted this. He wanted to know the truth and wanted to know the reason why Winnie was there.

He finished watching the video. His hands trembled as he took the USB flash drive out and put it in his safe. His phone then rang, it was Christ. “Hudson, what’s up with you and Winnie? Tim called and said that you did something. What happened?”

“Nothing! I will deal with it!” Hudson quickly rushed to the hotel and checked the surveillance camera. A waiter helped him to his room, nothing unusual. The pub was closing up around the time he was sent back to his room, and so a waiter bringing him back to his room was nothing unusual.

But half an hour later, Winnie rushed over and went into his room!

Hudson took his phone out and called Winnie.

The moment he was going to make the call, he noticed that he called Winnie last night. He was taken aback, the call last only a minute, it was brief.

Hudson quickly went to the Perry family. But the moment he got into the house, he was welcomed by Tim who looked extremely outraged. Hudson was shocked and he thought that maybe Tim had seen the video.

“Tim!” Hudson greeted him politely, “Where’s Winnie?”

“Hudson!” Tim yelled, “You never wanted to give my granddaughter anything when she was with you. Why are you guys together again after you divorce her? Tell me, what is going on?”

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“I wanted to ask her that!” said Hudson in a deep voice.

“She came back early in the morning and said that she wanted to go to France. She’s probably at the airport right now!” said Tim coldly. “I don’t know where this video comes from, but I will investigate it! What the heck, nobody is allowed to bully my granddaughter!”

“I will check on it too!” Hudson lowered his head, “I’ll be taking my leave!”

He headed to the airport after her, what was going on?

He made a call and talked to a friend who worked at the airport. He found out that Winnie’s flight to France was about to leave in half an hour.

Hudson drove his car at high speed and arrived at the airport.

He saw a weak figure at the boarding zone and was taken aback. She was holding a white bag and her head all droopy. She looked sad and looked like she was about to run away from something.

Hudson didn’t say anything, he walked over to her and the air around him was cold, so cold it sent shivers down one’s spine. He grabbed Winnie’s wrist harshly.

“Ah…” Winnie looked up in a daze and met Hudson’s cold and vicious eyes, “Hudson, why are you here?”

“Don’t you dare run away.” He yanked her to a corner and asked angrily, “You want to leave the moment you became my woman? What are you planning by taking the video?”

Winnie was shocked, her eyes widened, “You, you knew?”

She thought he was talking about last night and didn’t know about the video.

“So you were the culprit behind the video?” said Hudson after pausing briefly. He glared at her even more harshly.

“Video? What video?” Winnie didn’t understand.

Hudson smirked, he glanced sharply at her shocked face. Suddenly, Winnie’s phone rang, she glanced at Hudson and took the call, “Grandpa… what?”

“What? No! How could this be?” Winnie couldn’t believe her ears. She looked up and looked at Hudson, her phone fell from her hand. Her grandfather just told her that there was a video about her with Hudson from yesterday!

“What do you have to say about it?” questioned Hudson coldly. “What’s the point of doing this? Do you want me to take responsibility?”

Winnie looked at him, she couldn’t believe it. He inched his cold and handsome face closer to her, he was getting closer and closer. She took a step backwards and her back was already against a column in the hall.

He bent forward and stared at her intensely, “Why are you running away after taking the video? Are you feeling guilty?”

“You…” Winnie was so mad she couldn’t even speak, she just wanted to leave.

But Hudson blocked her way with his arm.

Winnie thought about last night, the steamy scene was replaying in her head. Her face blushed, and then it blanched. He accused her of taking a video, but she didn’t. She wasn’t that much of a pervert.

She took deep breathes and looked at him calmly. She didn’t want to appear meek and run away, she said softly, “Hudson! I didn’t.”

Hudson was taken aback; he was shocked by the determination and strength in her eyes. But his rationality was out of the window due to the embarrassment and anger he felt after watching the video, “Who else could it be?”

Winnie laughed self-depreciatingly, “Hudson, I see that in your heart I’m such a despicable person! But I just want to say, the truth is the truth! I don’t need your self-righteousness and responsibility! I’m sorry, but I have a flight to catch!”

She was shocked by this news and didn’t know what to do. She just wanted to run away, she wanted to hide, she wanted to leave. She lowered her head and left in a rush.

But Hudson grabbed her hand again, “Who used my phone to call you last night?”

Suddenly, he realized that there was no need for Winnie to send the video to Tim. Maybe she wasn’t the culprit after all.

Winnie was stunned, she looked at his hand which was grabbing her wrist. At that moment, she lowered her head. She pursed her lips and mumbled something. Hudson continued to stare at her intensely, and it made her super uncomfortable.

“Who called you with my phone?” he asked again.

“Will you believe anything I say?” She smiled bitterly. She looked at him, her eyes were bright but at the same time, it was filled with sadness and anguish. But her eyes were still bright, without an ounce of guilt.

He didn’t say anything and nodded.

“It was the waiter, he called me Mrs. Ball. I wanted to say that I wasn’t Mrs. Ball anymore but he told me that you were drunk. He then hung up and so I went over. The person on the first floor gave me the card to the room! And then I went in! And then…”

Winnie felt suffocating talking about this, “That’s it!”

For some reason, Winnie was afraid of Hudson. She felt weak all over just thinking about what he did to her last night.

“It really wasn’t you who took the video?” he questioned coldly. She trembled.

“You think I’m crazy? I’m also in the video!” Winnie growled, “Why would I do that to myself?”

“I believe you!” said Hudson out of nowhere. He stared at her watery eyes, he believed in her as her eyes seemed to be telling the truth.

He then yanked her and left the airport.

“Hudson, where are you taking me?” Winnie growled.

He didn’t answer and just shoved her into the car.

“My luggage is still at the airport, they are on transit, Hudson…”

He grabbed her plane ticket and said, “Wait here!”

He then ran back into the airport and after 15 minutes, he appeared again with her luggage. He put them into the car.

Winnie looked at him all troubled, “Hudson…”

“Shut up!” he growled.

She bit her lips and didn’t say anything. She didn’t know where he was bringing her, she didn’t know what he was about to do with her. She could only go with him. She felt like a leaf floating in the ocean, not knowing where she would end up!

Hudson didn’t know where he was going to bring her. He was driving and all of a sudden he stepped on the break. Winnie was startled, she hit her head on the windscreen.

Hudson’s face tensed up. After checking that she wasn’t hurt, he stared at her coldly and didn’t say anything.

Winnie drooped her head and didn’t say anything either. She gritted her teeth and realized that nothing she said would matter.

“Hudson, I…” Winnie glanced at Hudson, trying to read his expression.

Hudson’s phone suddenly rang. He looked at the phone and his cold expression changed briefly, but shortly after he resumed his usual cold expression again. He took the call, “I will investigate! I will take responsibility!”

Winnie didn’t know who was on the phone. Hudson hung up the call and stared at Winnie, “What do you want to do?”

“Me?” Winnie didn’t know how to say it, she bit her lips, “I want to leave!”

Hudson was taken aback by her answer, after a while he said indifferently, “I, I will take responsibility!”

Winnie was shocked to hear him say that, but she knew that he didn’t love her. So what if he took responsibility if he didn’t love her. “I don’t need it. Yesterday was a mistake, I shouldn’t have rushed over like that. You don’t have to feel sorry, I don’t really care!”

She said with all her might, she felt strengthless after that as if she hadn’t talked for a very long time. Her voice was soft but she sounded resolute, she said calmly, “I’m also at fault, it’s not just you! Please send me back to the airport!”

She wanted to go hide in France for a bit and didn’t know that something like this would happen so abruptly. She smiled bitterly and looked away, she just stared out of the car window.

Hudson didn’t think that she would say that, he felt even more guilty hearing her say that!

On the other side, Elijah got a call from Tim. He quickly rushed over and found out what had happened. He played the video for one second and quickly turned it off!

“What’s that?” Esther didn’t see anything. She looked over Elijah’s shoulder curiously, but noticed that Elijah and Tim looked ghastly, “Why are you guys looking like that?”

Tim glanced at Esther, “You wait here, I have something to say to Elijah!”

Elijah lightly tapped her face, “Wait here!”

“What? What happened?” Esther just knew that they were here because of a call. She was sleeping soundly when everything happened. Tim and Elijah went upstairs.

Hudson brought Winnie back and they saw Esther the moment they stepped into the house. Hudson’s face turned pale the moment he saw Esther and poignancy filled his eyes. He didn’t know how to face her, he felt guilty and felt like he betrayed her.

“Hudson, Winnie, you guys are back!” Esther thought that it was weird that Winnie and Hudson came back together, but she felt happy seeing them together.

She smiled as she greeted them, but they didn’t have much reaction. This raised Esther’s suspicion.

“Esther!” Winnie forced a smile and greeted her back softly, “I need to go upstairs! I’m sorry!”

She grabbed her bag and lowered her head as she walked up the stairs without saying anything else.

“Hudson, what happened?” Esther asked.

“Nothing!” Hudson smiled, “Nothing happened!”

Hudson avoided her gaze and didn’t dare to look at Esther. He felt guilty and felt like he wasn’t a real man. He didn’t keep his promise and betrayed the love he pled to adhere to.

Elijah walked out of the study room and walked up to Winnie upon seeing her.

“Brother…” Winnie looked up and saw him, she called out helplessly. Her nose tingled and she wanted to cry.

Elijah didn’t know what to say, he could only reach out his arms and hugged her.

“Brother…” Winnie called out again, this time in tears after hearing him grunt. She ran into his arms the moment he walked close to her and grabbed on tightly to his shirt. She was trembling violently and she couldn’t appease the anguish she was feeling in her heart. “I don’t know what happened, it wasn’t me!”

“Don’t worry! I’m here!” He tapped gently on her shivering body. He then exchanged glances with Tim who walked out of the study room, they both had complicated looks in their eyes.

“Winnie, my good child. I’ll deal with it for you!” Tim walked over.

“Grandpa, I’m sorry. I shamed the family!” Winnie tried to breathe, she said suffocatingly as she heaved.

“Someone plotted this, don’t go anywhere. Your brother will deal with it for you! What did Hudson say? Is he here?”

“Grandpa, brother. I just want to make sure the video doesn’t get out; I don’t want Hudson to be responsible for anything! I beg you; I don’t want that!” Winnie said as she took deep breathes as if she was trying to suppress the sharp pain she was feeling in her heart, “I shouldn’t have gone there.”

“Don’t worry, just go take a rest first! Take a nap and rest, everything will be okay!” Elijah hugged her tightly and tried to give her some strength.

“Don’t let him take responsibility?” Tim said loudly out of surprise. Esther and Hudson who were downstairs heard him said that.