Chapter 144: TRASHED HOUSE
Mr. Davis continued to rummage through the purse, scattering all her belongings which ended up falling on the ground until he found what he was looking for.
"So you are planning on betraying me huh, Jasmine? After everything that we had gone through just so that we could be this close to achieving our dream goal, you plan to turn your back on me?" He asked her with a tone of disappointment. "You are such an embarrassment", he spat. Never in his wildest thoughts did he think that Jasmine, his daughter whom he had been grooming to achieve all his goals could betray him in such a manner. Earlier, when he was answering his phone call, he saw her shadows from behind the door, eavesdropping on his conversation. That was where he started having his suspicions about Jasmine.
"And what about you?" She questioned him back. "You are a disgrace to other fathers in the nation, manipulating your daughter, toying with her just so you can achieve your stupid goals". Even though she didn’t know how her father had started suspecting her or found out about her plans, the most important thing was that she had already informed both Ethan and Erika. And talking back to her father had been something that she had always wanted to do but out of fear, she didn’t dare to do it. But now that she had come back to her senses, she would knock some into her father.
PAK!!
Mr Davis lifted his palm and struck her face. "You have no right to talk to me in that manner, I was only doing what I did so that I could secure a better life for you and this is how you repay me?" he questioned her with furrowed eyes and red eyes, rage evident on his face.
"Repay you?" she asked as she used her hand to cover her struck cheek... "I don’t owe you anything Dad, you are the one who should repay me for all the troubles you have put me through and what did you say? You were only doing this so that you could secure my future, was that it? Then why are you planning on killing Ethan after you get what you want?" she wished that her father would reveal more of his plans to her so that she would have more evidence to use against him. And luckily, Mr Davis didn’t think twice before spouting out the truth.
"Because if I don’t, then he will try to get his properties back", he replied. He thought of Ethan as a threat and he knew that the young man would get back to me if he won by getting the young man’s property.
"And why wouldn’t he? You are just a lazy old man who has refused to work but had decided to steal instead", she insulted without holding back as she clenched her fists tightly, which angered Mr Davis to strike her face again,
PAK!!!
This time, Jasmine let out a muffled cry as the impact of the slap tore her lips.
"You are an ungrateful child!" Mr Davis yelled at her. "But unfortunately for you, I won’t let you leave this house until my plans are complete and if you dare to step out, I will personally kill Ethan and Erika myself", he threatened before he took her phone and computer along so that she wouldn’t have any mode of communication. He was at his peak of becoming the wealthiest man in New York and he wouldn’t let his daughter be the one to spoil his plans. Even if he needs to make her permanently quiet, he wouldn’t bat an eye in doing it.
Mrs. Davis quickly went toward her daughter to try to console her but it was of no use, she couldn’t help, she was useless.
Jasmine stared at her father’s back until he disappeared into his study room. With gritted teeth, she pushed her mom’s hand away from her, entered her room, and banged the door hard, venting her anger on it.
At the Anderson Corporations, both Ethan and Erika were waiting for Jasmine to show up with her evidence but she hadn’t arrived yet which left them confused, not knowing if she was telling the truth or just toying with them.
"Do you think she was lying?" Erika asked Ethan, who released a heavy sigh before shrugging his shoulders.
"I don’t know", he replied. "But if she did lie to us, what could she be planning? This is what confuses me a lot. I mean, she is implicating her father if she was lying but they are partners in crime," he thought out loud.
"Exactly, could she have had a change of heart?" she asked.
"I don’t know", said Erika with folded hands.
In the middle of their thoughts, Ethan’s phone suddenly rang, thinking it was Jasmine, he rushed to go pick it up but unfortunately, it was from the caretaker of his house. He frowned before picking up the call,
"Hello, Mrs. Woods".
"S-sir Ethan, a bunch of m-men just arrived at y-your house and they scattered everywhere and left afterward", the woman stuttered with fear from the other side as her hands shook.
"What!" Ethan exclaimed in shock.
"I will be right there", he said and hung up on the phone.
"What happened?" Erika asked worriedly when she saw the uneasy expression plastered on Ethan’s face.
"The caretaker said a bunch of people attacked the house", he informed her
"What?" Erika gasped.
"So we need to go now", he took his jacket and the both of them left the building quickly and headed towards the apartment.
At the Davis mansion, the old man exclaimed, "What do you mean by she wasn’t at the house?! Did she fly?!" he questioned the caller.
"We are not sure sir, we even scattered the whole house but we didn’t find her", the person from the other line replied.
Mr Davis pinched the skin between his eyebrows as a sign of frustration. "Go to the Anderson corporations, she must be there", he ordered.
"B-But sir, the security is tight there. We can’t possibly kidnap someone from there without getting noticed", the person tried to reason out.
"I don’t care! I’m not paying you just so you can give me excuses without doing your job right", Mr Davis said and hung up on the phone without giving the other person a chance to speak. He had sent people to kidnap Erika but unfortunately for him, his daughter had already informed the couple and now they were alert.
In Jasmine’s room, she lay on her bed and sobbed about how careless she had been by thinking she could easily outsmart her father before she abruptly sprang up.
"Why am I crying? I need to find a way to get out of here and not cry like a baby," she told herself. "But how am I going to get out of here if I can’t even leave my room?" she asked herself. She looked at the open window and quickly tore her eyes away from there. "I don’t plan to commit suicide," she said.
DING
"That sounds like a phone’s notification but from where?" she asked herself.
DING
Another notification came in again and it was coming from the bedside drawer. Jasmine walked towards it and pulled it open, only for her to find a phone that looked exactly like hers. She stared at the phone with a confused expression before it dawned on her.
"Andrew’s phone", she gasped and immediately picked it up. "How can I forget that I still have Andrew’s phone with me?" she smacked her head for being forgetful.
Immediately, she tried to contact Ethan by unlocking the phone and quickly dialing his phone number but unfortunately, the call couldn’t be connected for some reason. In frustration, she dialed the phone number again.
At Ethan’s house, he stood in front of his apartment which had been scattered as if a war had taken place there.
"How could this happen when this estate has a tight security?" He questioned the chief of security with a glare. His house looked unrecognizable due to their incompetence which shouldn’t be taken lightly.
"We are so sorry, sir", the chief of security apologized with folded hands.
"Sorry? So what are you saying now huh? That a bunch of criminals can now barge into this estate and do as they please?" He questioned with a cold glare which only made the sweat profusely. "I will see to it that you lose your job", he declared and held Erika’s hand and strode inside his property.
The inside of the house was similar to the outside, it was also a mess.
"Mrs. Woods", he called the caretaker and she quickly ran inside the house. "Is there anything missing from the house?" He asked and the middle-aged woman shook her head.
"No sir", she replied. "It was like as if they didn’t find what they were looking for", she added. Everything had happened so fast and thankfully, she wasn’t hurt in the midst of it.
"Or rather someone", Ethan mumbled under his breath.
