Spoiled By The CEO: Why The Wife Is Kinda Sweet? novel Chapter 294

She didn’t mean to look down on her, but the scam was so obvious that she could see something was wrong as an outsider. Faye, though, actually believed that Forrest would help her.

And she’d brought money here to get him to give her more ores.

She just didn’t have a brain!

She thought it all internally and didn’t say it out loud, but also knew that Archie was probably thinking the same thing.

Archie’s expression wasn’t pretty at the moment, but hearing how things had gone down, at least he knew the basics.

So he muttered, “How much did you give him?”

Faye looked at him timidly and stammered, “About… s-seven to eight hundred million, I guess!”

Natalia had no words.

Well, this was what it meant to be dumb and rich!

Archie didn’t have a reply, either.

He thought about it, and asked on, “So, you were there at Pinewood Manor making trouble for Natalia because you wanted to take those antiques back and sell them? Then invest in that Forrest fellow again?”

Faye looked a bit awkward.

“I-I was just planning on borrowing it for a while. When I’ve struck it rich, couldn’t I just give it all back?”

“Ha…”

Archie and Natalia obviously didn’t believe that.

Faye pleaded, “Come on, Archie, I’ve told you everything. Can’t you just keep it hidden for now and not tell your Grandpa and Grandma? I really don’t want them to know.”

Archie rumbled, “Then have you thought about how to deal with things now?”

Faye blinked.

She still didn’t understand what he meant by dealing with things.

Natalia reminded kindly, “This man clearly just thinks poorly of you and is trying to scam you out of your money. You can’t have gone without realizing it even now?”

Faye was even more stunned now.

“That… can’t be right! I got into prospecting myself, and I was worried he’d lie to me, so I always picked the ores myself and didn’t let him get involved. With so many pieces of ore inside, how would he know which one I would pick?”

Natalia chuckled.

Voice low, Archie said, “That’s simple. You just switch out all the rocks in there for low-quality or regular stones. If other people can’t get good ores, you can’t either. Wouldn’t that work?”

Faye’s face went slack.

Then she attempted, “That can’t be, I saw people strike solid gold right next to the ore I bought!”

Solid gold?

That was quite something!

Natalia smiled, “That’s easy, too. If you just put a piece of ore that’s already confirmed to be good quality there, then get someone to pretend to be a customer and buy it, then excavate it there, that’s that. The gold and the money goes back to their own pockets, so it’s not tough to pull off.”

Faye wore an expression of disbelief.

“T-That’s impossible! How could it be like this?”

“There’s no such thing as impossible.”

Archie burst her last bubble of hope. “It’s just one of the simplest scams in the city. So simple even Anne wouldn’t have fallen for it. I didn’t think you’d step in it and step this deep in it, too. Really, compared to blaming them for their cutthroat business, you really should blame yourself for being too stupid.”

Faye started screeching right away.

“How can you say that about me, Archie? I’m your aunt!”