Spoiled By The CEO: Why The Wife Is Kinda Sweet? novel Chapter 293

As she spoke, her eyes flickered, clearly ill at ease.

Archie didn’t debate with her. After all, they’d found her out and caught her at the scene.

Faye was his senior, so it wouldn’t do to go too far in public.

So he simply said, “I’ll leave this to Grandma to deal with, so please prepare yourself!”

With that, he took Natalia’s had and turned to leave.

Hearing that he was going to tell the McCarthy elders, Faye started panicking.

She hurried over to block off their path.

“Wait, don’t go!”

She chased them all the way outside and finally stopped them. Archie frowned and didn’t speak, waiting for the shoe to drop.

Faye panted from the exertion for a while before she recovered her breath.

She babbled, “You can’t tell your Grandpa and Grandma, Archie. I’m begging you; you have to hide this for me. If they found out, I’m a dead woman.”

Archie muttered, “You should have thought of them finding out before you did this.”

Faye was close to tears.

“No, if you don’t say anything and I don’t say anything and neither of them say anything, how would they find out?”

Archie scoffed.

“Oh? Is that right? You even took the jewels Grandma gave you and sold them, and you’re so sure they won’t find out at all?”

Faye’s face changed and turned deathly white.

After a few seconds, her lips moved.

“You – you know about that too?”

Archie kept his expression cold and didn’t answer.

Natalia explained, “I went to an auction with Archie yesterday and saw that set of jewelry by accident. But don’t worry. Archie’s already bought it up, so word won’t get to Grandpa and Grandma just yet. But I feel that you should still explain to Archie what happened and how you had to resort to this. Otherwise, if it does get out one day, we can’t hide it for you even if we wanted to.”

Faye heaved a sigh of relief and nodded.

“Right. I should tell you. Except for you, I don’t know who to turn to for help now.”

There were too many people coming and going in the area to speak.

Finally, Faye suggested a café in a nice area nearby, so they moved the conversation there.

This was about McCarthy internal affairs and it’d be awkward if Nancy took part, so she sat down on the first floor and had some coffee.

Faye, Natalia and Archie sat down in a compartment on the second floor.

After sitting down, Natalia ordered coffee for all three of them before focusing on the topic.

“It’s not that we can’t help you, Aunt, but please don’t hide anything from us and tell us the truth. That way, we can consider how to help you.”

At a time like this, Faye didn’t speak to Natalia with her previous sense of arrogance.

Knowing that she needed their help, she set down her status and sighed. “It’s a long story. We need to go back to a year ago.”

A year ago, Faye had gotten in an argument with the old lady. She wouldn’t say what it had been over, and Natalia and Archie didn’t ask.

At that time, Archie had headed to Julio, so Faye moved back to the old household to stay with the old lady and the old man.

Not long after she moved in, though, she’d moved away again because they’d argued.

Not many people knew about that. Even Archie didn’t know.

After moving out of the house, in her anger, Ariana cut off her financial support.

For whatever reason, the old lady wanted to get her to admit her own wrongs. But Faye was too proud, and refused to back down.

Not only that, she thought of some rapid-fire ways to make money, swearing to prove to Ariana that even outside the McCarthy family, she could do well and make a living for herself.

First, she went and started investing in the stock market. As a lady of the McCarthy household, most people considered her status and introduced plenty of good stocks to her, and she made a killing.

Then she got into business.

But her background was in art. Her family’s business might have been top of the nation, but she’d never experienced that side of things herself.

She lost all her investments in the end.

Afraid of getting laughed at, she became even more determined to make money.

So, by sheer coincidence, she’d come across Forrest.

Forrest was the man they’d seen in the prospecting center.

The man was a successful Tapir merchant. He’d tried to court Ariana when they’d first known each other, but Ariana hadn’t agreed.

Because of that, Faye had felt that since he’d chased her skirts before, he wouldn’t lie to her.

In the beginning, Forrest had in fact guided her into getting some good quality ores and making a tidy little profit.

Then Faye started getting dissatisfied with the situation. Sensing her thoughts, Forrest suggested that she go for the big take.

So one time, Faye bought up half of the entire place’s ores, but didn’t turn up even a handful of good stones.

That was a huge blow.

But the sunk-cost fallacy kicked in, and the more she failed, the harder she tried to make it all back.

With Forrest encouraging her, Faye tried several times to strike it big, buying up over dozens of pieces each time.

The more she put in, though, the more she lost. She ended up investing up to several hundred million without seeing a single good chunk of ore, ending up with an almost complete net loss.

She couldn’t take it. She also didn’t understand why it wasn’t working anymore when she started out getting good ores every time.

It wasn’t that she’d never suspected that Forrest was lying to her, but she’d picked the ores every time. Even if he wanted to scam her, he couldn’t.

She didn’t understand. And now that she’d gone all in, if she gave up now, she couldn’t explain it away.

It had been a year since then, but the spat between her and Ariana still hadn’t fully faded,

Faye thought to try one more time and stop if she lost, but then she struck gold.

So, with capital, she tried several more times.

That repeated until she ran out of money. She started borrowing from the people around her and pawning off her valuables all to feed to the prospecting center.

Today, she’d already realized that people in the McCarthy family were catching on, so she’d wanted to get Forrest to give her a few good pieces to make something of it so she could muddle things over.

She didn’t think she’d meet Archie and gang.

Hearing her description, Archie and Natalia were both left speechless.

Natalia didn’t understand how a family of elites had given birth to someone this simple and impulsive.