Spoiled By The CEO: Why The Wife Is Kinda Sweet? novel Chapter 268

Natalia jolted. She’d never thought that far. She just felt instinctively that having a chance to get back to one’s real family was always a good thing.

Hearing Archie say this, though, she started thinking that maybe the Kawn family was a dragon’s den, not to be easily intruded upon.

And it might not be a good thing for the child to return.

She suddenly recalled Selena again.

Back then, it was said that Selena had only been adopted by Mrs. Kawn to make up for that child’s disappearance.

The Kawn family had always treated her as one of their own and raised her properly. It could be said that, if the old man hadn’t gotten sick this time, they wouldn’t have remembered to keep looking for the child.

And if that child really returned, where would that leave Selena?

Considering Selena’s personality, she couldn’t possibly not care.

Thinking of that, Natalia sighed.

Archie watched her set there, all dazed and sighing.

He couldn’t help but laugh and pat her head, soothing, “Don’t worry. If a clue comes up, I’ll definitely tell them. I’m just reminding you not to be too optimistic about this. That child’s been missing for over twenty years now. Other than the first couple years where they devoted everything into searching for her, the Kawn family haven’t really moved these past dozen or so years. Up until now, when the old man’s health is failing, they restarted their search. I don’t need to explain the intricacies behind it all, since I’m sure you get it. It’s hard to say if it’ll be fortune or misfortune for this child to go back to the Kawn family as well.”

Natalia nodded.

Of course she understood that, having produced no results after the search, the family had tired themselves out and given up.

Now that the old man was sick, looking back, he felt he owed this child something.

Everyone didn’t want to let the old man go with regret in his heart, so they were giving it their all to find the child.

In other words, this child was just a tool for them to get into the old man’s good books.

After all, who knows how much conflicts of interest over his inheritance surrounded the old man’s death.

With the old man dead and the tool now stripped of its purpose, nobody could tell how they were going to deal with the child.

Thinking of that, she felt a surge of sorrow.

Seeing her low mood, Archie felt that wasn’t the best topic to linger on, so he stopped and changed the subject.

As the two chatted, they drove home.

Knowing that they were coming back, Mrs. Dottie had prepared a rich afternoon tea.

Having eaten, Archie didn’t head to the office in the afternoon and stayed at home with Natalia.

Anne’s body had gone through checkup and was apparently fine, even better than before.

All in all, she was getting better.

Natalia relaxed after hearing that.

In the evening, the police sent word, saying that they’d found out what happened five years ago.

Even though Clara hadn’t confessed yet, Aleena had broken under interrogation.

The pictures of the brakes that Natalia had submitted, alongside the testimony of the repair shop worker back then, had had a great effect as well.

The truth was close to what Natalia had guessed. Back then, Kiera had caught Philip and Aleena in flagrante delicto, and realized they had an eighteen-year-old daughter.

In her anger, she wanted the Hawkins stock back, so she brought up divorce with Philip.

But with a family from the farmlands who’d relied all on the Hawkins to get to this point, how would Philip and gang agree to it?

That day, under his gentle words, her mother had held down her rage, while Philip had promised an ideal solution. Then he’d gone right around and sent people to tamper with her car.

To rise to the place of Mrs. Dawson, Aleena had driven her own vehicle and slammed into Kiera’s car on the bridge.

Kiera had flipped over the railing along with her car and fell into the water. The car was destroyed; her life ended.

Natalia listened to the police report in silence. She’d thought she’d be enraged, but she was unexpectedly calm.

After all, it had been six years since then.

And she’d long since known the truth before this. She’d just never had the proof.

Only now did she realize that, no matter how horrific, how hurtful some things were, their immediate impact would fade over time, leaving you calm, with only an endless weight and sorrow.

As for how to deal with the Dawson family, Natalia didn’t have an opinion and left them to be prosecuted by the law.

Archie didn’t comment on that.

That approach was soon reported down the chain of command.

Philip was sentenced to death on account of murder, and so was Aleena. Since Clara hadn’t done anything and only orchestrated things behind the scenes, taking her age into consideration, they only sentenced her to life in prison. But for her age, life in prison was essentially a death sentence.

After the report came through, Jessica’s future was basically ruined.

She’d been young then and hadn’t been involved in the incident. The most they could say about her was that she’d kept it to herself, so they couldn’t put her in prison.

But the power of public discussion was great. She had murderers for parents and such a vicious grandmother.

Add to that what she’d done to Natalia, there was enough there to bury her!

Besides, she still needed to cooperate with the investigation into Natalia’s kidnapping.

But during the investigation, Jessica still claimed that she’d been kidnapped as well.

The investigation revealed that she’d been telling the truth.

Natalia also knew that Jessica had been kidnapped back then, but not who’d done it.

The police were unable to turn up any clues, so it had ended up a cold case.

It was a good thing nobody got hurt, so the results were still optimistic.

After Clara, Philip and Aleena were locked up, the board gave an executive decision over the inheritance of the Dawson Group.

They all recommended that Natalia become the heir.

Natalia had been Hawkins to begin with. Since Kiera was her biological mother, it made sense to have her inherit the property.

And with something like this having happened with Jessica, she’d naturally lost the right to compete for the company’s ownership, so the only logical heir was Natalia.

But Natalia wasn’t too interested in the idea. Even though Dawson had started off as Hawkins, she didn’t have much interest in the company before her mother’s death, so she’d never gotten involved.

And with all the work Philip had put into getting it there, Dawson was not the Hawkins of old anyway.

Even if she took over, she was just giving herself more trouble.

Having gone through so much, the Dawson stock had dropped excessively. This was just a scrapheap now. Whoever took it over would be taking over a huge headache.

Luckily, the Millers had invested plenty of money into the Dawson Group, so they meant to buy it up. Natalia didn’t stop them.

After discussing it, the two parties signed an agreement to a suitable price, and the incident drew to a close.