Winner Takes All novel Chapter 208

At least Amber did not notice his strange expression. Jack felt guilty and remorseful. But his memory of what happened last night was hazy. He wasn’t sure if he did anything with Ciara.

He thought about asking Ciara but … how was he to ask about it? He took a deep breath to suppress his feelings and Jack’s expression cooled down considerably.

Vaughn family!

His odd behavior last night was because he was drugged. If it was the assassins who drugged him, why would they use an aphrodisiac? It was obvious that the Vaughns were responsible for it.

“The actions of the Vaughn family were despicable. It was pure luck that I survived.” Jack thought.

His limbs became weak when the drugs started to take effect. Had it not been for Brent and Lone Wolf who risked it all to protect him and Ciara who dragged him out at the critical moment, he was certain he would be dead.

With his fighting abilities, he would not be stabbed If it wasn’t for the Vaughn family’s drug.

“What are you thinking about?” Amber noticed that Jack was fuming and became concerned.

Jack shook his head and asked, “Where is Mr. Ward?”

“He went to investigate what happened last night.” Amber paused and then added, “Rest well and recuperate. We did not tell your mother. Brent and Lone Wolf are fine and resting in the room next door. Mr. Ward and the others will investigate the assassination attempt.

Jack heaved a sigh of relief when he found out that Brent and Lone were alright.

At this moment, the door to the room opened and Mr. Ward walked in. He was relieved to see that Jack was awake.

“Mr. Ward, have you found out anything?” Jack asked.

Mr. Ward shook his head helplessly, “It’s tough. Not only is Aiden struggling with it, but even the Hughes family intelligence network also drew a blank.”

This was a serious incident and he certainly couldn’t depend on Aiden to investigate. Mr. Ward had already reported to Patrick as soon as the incident happened. The Hughes intelligence network had been working feverishly on this since last night.

“Even the Hughes family can’t find anything?” Jack clicked his tongue in surprise.

The Hughes family’s wealth, assets, and status were immense. As a result, the prowess of its intelligence network was beyond the comprehension of regular people.

“Those ten-plus assassins were on a suicide mission. Brent and Lone Wolf had killed more than half of them and the remaining ones who were captured swallowed a capsule hidden in their teeth to kill themselves. As a result, none of them could be interrogated to provide any clues.”

Mr. Ward frowned and said, “Not only that, all the assassins had no background as if they never existed.”

“No news from the underground world?” Jack frowned tightly.

Mr. Ward nodded, “None.”

It was silent in the room.

A few seconds later, Jack suddenly laughed, “There aren’t many families who can do this so cleanly.”

Jack raise his eyebrows and looked at Mr. Ward, “Mr. Ward, do you think it’s the Burton family, or… Hughes family?”

When the words ‘Hughes family’ was mentioned, Mr. Ward’s eyes lit up, and said, “Master is referring to… an inside job?”

Mr. Ward was shocked to his senses. The Hughes intelligence network, Aiden, Vaughn, and Wattson families did not even consider this possibility.

Jack nodded, “A lot of families have the ability to cover up and clean up but they would not provoke me without any good reasons. Furthermore, this was done so brazenly!”

Mr. Ward frowned and pondered deeply. The ones with a grudge and dared to do it would either be the Burton family or Hughes family!

“I’ll report this to your father.” Mr. Ward turned to leave the room.

Jack sat on the patient's bed and was deep in thoughts.

Seated by his side, Amber’s eyes glimmered and murmured with her red lips, “Jack, was that possible?” She obviously asked about the Hughes family trying to kill him.

Jack laughed profoundly, “The results may be very different from what we expected.”

Amber was doubtful but did not continue to ask.

In the two days following the incident, Aiden used all his resources to investigate and the city seemed to be rattled. Drago also received Mr. Ward’s instructions to activate his intelligence network. The city seemed peaceful but a storm was raging in the shadows.

Even the capital started to tremble.

The Burton family was just bombed. Now with the Vaughn and Wattson family joining up to investigate, the sentiments in the capital reached a feverish point.

The rich and powerful families started to become nervous. To assassinate the heir of the Hughes family was directly challenging the Hughes family! Very soon, some of the families started to put the blame on the Burton family.

In terms of grudge, it was obvious that the Burton family held the biggest grudge against Jack. After all, it was Jack who humiliated the high and mighty Burton family.

At the Burton family Ancient Castle Villa.

Old Master Burton was sitting by the window and looking at the workers busy at work in the garden.

Behind him, Dyson said solemnly, “Father, now a lot of people are commenting that we are the mastermind of Jack’s assassination.”

“Investigate! Investigate to the bottom of this!” Old Master Burton said angrily, “We can’t take the fall for this. I still need Jack to head this family and won’t dare to risk the wrath of the Hughes family.”

Indeed Jack and Patrick had devastated the pride and dignity of the Burton family in one night. But Old master Burton was not a fool to consider assassinating Jack. That would be losing both Jack and Patrick with one stroke.

“The Vaughn and Wattson families had already turned the Capital upside down with no results,” Dyson said helplessly.

“We need to investigate even if we know that we can’t come up with anything. It’s an issue of attitude!” Old Master Burton’s expression was fiery. If they don’t do something to help to investigate, it would be a tacit admission of their guilt.

“Understood.” Dyson quickly left.

Jack was resting and enjoying Amber’s meticulous attention when Aiden rushed into the room.

“Don’t you know how to knock?” Jack said coldly and was clearly upset.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Hughes”. Aiden’s eyes twitched and quickly explained.

“What?” Jack asked.

“We found out the culprit!” Aiden said and Jack sat up immediately.

Then Aiden took out a file and said as he presented it to Jack, “This wasn’t only the results of my investigation. Drago, Vaughn, Wattson families, and even the Burton family all had the same results.”

Same results?

Jack’s pupils constricted and took over the file to look at it in detail.

At this moment, Mr. Ward walked into the patient room and saw the situation in the room.

Mr. Ward laughed helplessly and said, “Master, don’t need to look, they are a scapegoat.”

Scapegoat?! Jack was stunned.

Aiden’s expression changed and looked at Mr. Ward in disbelief.

Mr. Ward rubbed his chin and said, “How powerful must the mastermind be to have an entire family become a scapegoat?”