Spoiled By The CEO: Why The Wife Is Kinda Sweet? novel Chapter 241

But then she’d received Elsa’s call.

Now that she’d gone missing for so long, Elsa and all her colleagues were probably worried out of their minds. So she had Archie answer the call and reassure her a bit.

Elsa had followed her over from Century. The two had been colleagues for years, and she knew what Elsa was like. Naturally, she trusted her.

And Elsa had shown that that trust wasn’t misplaced.

Although she now knew that she was back, she only kept it buried deep and didn’t tell anyone.

Even with Julia waiting outside, she simply made up an excuse and sent her away.

When Julia left Star Entertainment and went back to find Jessica, she’d told her the entire process and result of going to Star to look for Natalia.

Hearing that Julia’s persuasion hadn’t succeeded, and she hadn’t even seen Natalia, Jessica started panicking right away.

“How is that possible? She should have escaped; how hasn’t she made her return yet?”

Julia didn’t understand it, either.

She frowned, musing, “Maybe something went wrong? Or someone took her mid-way, so she hasn’t come back?”

“That can’t be!”

Jessica shot the possibility down without even considering it.

At first, even though she hadn’t seen Natalia escape with her own eyes, the four brutes who’d been knocked unconscious in the chamber were there.

Then she’d found that Archie McCarthy had also emerged in the area with his men. If that was the case, Archie had to had taken Natalia away.

So what was going on?

Jessica was very troubled.

She didn’t understand it. Since she was back and knew what she’d done to her, Natalia should be making her stand against her.

Why would she hide and pretend she wasn’t coming back?

Jessica and Julia thought for a whole night with no conclusion.

Until the next day, when news leaked on the internet that Natalia’s disappearance was intimately liked to Jessica.

The proof – a roadside CCTV recording showing the last rental car that Natalia went on before her disappearance, registered to one of Jessica’s drivers several months ago.

What kind of a coincidence was that? Natalia got on a car and disappeared, with that same car’s owner being a driver under Jessica.

With that, no one could believe Jessica was innocent.

Furious speculation and discussion sparked on the internet.

All voices chipped in with their own versions of the story. The more imaginative of the bunch took out the drama the two had displayed from earlier and crafted a basic plot.

Everyone then realized how messy and convoluted these two’s relationship were.

On one end, Natalia was accusing someone of framing her, on the other end was Jessica implying to the internet that Natalia was going after her husband.

But with Rosa’s video, the internet believed in Natalia’s innocence in what had happened before.

Jessica, on the other hand, had released a formal statement through her agency claiming that she was being framed and would reserve the right to prosecution, but hadn’t ever produced any proper evidence to prove her innocence. Many people disapproved.

And with this leak, everyone was about done with her.

Some well-meaning fans had already gone after Jessica.

Demanding that she let Natalia go, tagging the police on social media and howling for justice.

Seeing the comments online, Jessica’s panic intensified.

Not just her – Julia was getting antsy as well.

“Didn’t you say you cleaned up all your traces, Jessica? How is there a video?”

Jessica had no explanation.

“How should I know? I already sent people to clean up the scene, how would I know where they found another video?”

Julia almost lost it at that, but she forced herself to calm down before saying, “All right. The good thing is, they’ve only found that that driver is related to you, and nothing else. So long as we insist that you haven’t ever contacted that driver after he left your employment, we can pin everything on him. He acted alone and remains completely unrelated to you. With no other proof, as much as they doubt your story, they can’t say anything.”

Jessica nodded, then sat bolt upright.

She blurted, “Wait! Now that they’ve found this video, that driver’s probably in custody now. What if he rats me out?”

Julia looked at her in disbelief. “You’re not telling me you went to him personally?”

Jessica scratched her head in an ill mood. “What else could I have done? Ever since Rosa sold out to that bitch, I don’t have anyone near me I can trust to do this stuff. If I don’t get it done personally, am I supposed to just find some random person to do it for me? Isn’t that even more dangerous?”

Julia knew she was speaking the truth.

But she was still angry.

Looking at Jessica’s defeated state, though, she couldn’t say anything about it in case it triggered her.

Finally, she waved her hand impatiently and said, “Fine, I’ll send someone out to poke around. Get some money ready these couple days. If that driver really got caught, you’d need a pretty large sum to seal his mouth.”

Looking exhausted, Jessica slumped down on her chair, clutched her head, and nodded.

Julia left.

Feeling that her most important piece had been sucked out of her, Jessica lost her energy.

She hugged her arms around her head and sat there for a long while before lifting her head.

Looking at the lavish decorations in the house, she finally walked over and picked up her phone off the dresser.

She stood there, took a deep breath, and dialed a number.

“Grandma, it’s Jessica. I’ve got something I want to discuss. Is now a good time?”

*****

Ever since Jessica had married off, this was the first time she’d gone back to the Dawson household.

The atmosphere in the living room was oppressive, so oppressive that it felt far too rigid.

Clara and Philip sat at the head position, Aleena on a sofa at the side, Jessica on a single-seater armchair. None of them spoke.

Jessica had already explained the situation and why she needed money.

She hadn’t filmed much for almost a year. The money she’d made before had mostly been invested into Century Entertainment, so she didn’t have that much money on hand now.

It would have been even harder to get money from Shawn.

Forget him interrogating her about kidnapping Natalia, he’d probably refuse even if she just asked him for money.

If that was the case, she should just go to her own family.

That was why Jessica had come home.