Mr. Chairman’s Devious Wife by Brey Mitchylle

Chapter 22

Chapter 22

Chapter 22

“You wanted me to keep my mouth shut?” Sofia suddenly turned towards. him. Then she smiled. “Father, do you really want them to ruin my reputation because of unfounded accusations?” she asked.

“The lawyers will handle everything. | have already asked the IT department to track the ones who made the accusations online,” Lawrence said. He had expected this reaction from her.

“So, you simply wanted me not to say a word...” Sofia muttered. “At the end of the day, everything is still up to you.” “You are not giving me that many choices,” Sofia smiled.

Lawrence pursed his lips. Sofia was not dumb. She probably knew that she did not have that many options. However, Lawrence was confident that she would only choose the first option as she truly cared for Charlotte. Still, Lawrence wanted her to choose the second option.

“However, that will affect how the shareholders view your name. With the Annual shareholder’s meeting happening in just a few days, it is too risky to let this issue continue,” Lawrence spoke. Just as he expected, Sofia’s gaze

shook. “lam not a public figure...” Sofia said.

“This issue will affect the clothes that you design. Soon enough, someone could spark something and tell everyone else to boycott your clothes and the brand itself; we cannot let that happen,” Lawrence said: “You can do what you want. | am simply trying to tell you the possible outcome of your move.”

“If |say something, some people might start another rumor about my sister,” Sofia frowned. “I know how hard Charlotte had worked for her

career. | cannot let a rumor ruin her.”

Lawrence was pleased to hear that answer. Either way, he can still release what he has on her. However, it might not have the effect that he wanted. It was said but... it is what it is.

The effect would still be the same.

“Very well... | am giving you the time to decide.” Lawrence said. “I will stand with you no matter what.” Seeing Sofia’s teary eyes, Lawrence patted her shoulder before he took his coat and left the office. He always knew that Sofia would be soft against Charlotte, so Lawrence chose to use Charlotte for his schemes.

At first, Charlotte did not want to do it, but soon, she was convinced that Lawrence was only doing this for her own good.

However, the moment he left the office, Sofia’s sad expression vanished. She stared at the now-closed door for a few seconds before turning her attention towards the people downstairs.

Right now, she was certain that Lawrence was waiting for her to issue a statement, and say something about this matter. Then he would release the plagiarism case against Sofia.

Lawrence was really creative with his plans so far and Sofia could not help but applaud the man’s efforts.

If Sofia had been alone, she would have easily fallen into his traps, but she wasn’t. She balled her hands into two tight fists as she thought about the email that Alexander just sent her. Slowly she turned towards her laptop and read the email for the second time.

Attached to it was the same information that Karina was able to secure a few days ago. It was about Doctor Mulach and his past stint in South East Asia. However, this was more detailed; it included a lot of things that Karina had missed, like sealed cases in Indonesia.

“Lawrence...” Sofia gritted her teeth. Lawrence had actually worked with a

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murderer and asked this very same murderer to take care of her mother?

How could he be so heartless?

Sofia’s mother loved him. She — worshiped him!

Eunice Lockhart had given Lawrence everything that he could ever ask for, and yet he would do something like this? That man deserves to rot in the deepest part of hell!

“Miss, the Chairman has already left,” Miss Amores said.

Sofia turned her attention to her secretary. Alexander told her that Miss Amores should be clean. However, she had asked Karina to do a thorough background check. So far, Karina has not found anything that would tie Miss Amores to Lawrence. The same cannot be said for the rest of Sofia’s

team.

Lawrence had a few people on his payroll. One of them is Mrs. Phelps, the current Production Manager. Another one is working on HR. Her driver should be one of those people, but she already fired him. From her initial investigation, Mrs. Phelps had given some of her designs to Lawrence. Soon, these designs would be used in the plagiarism issue.

To try and cover up her tracks, she would openly talk to Mr. Oh about production among other things. She would then use this meeting as a way to prove her innocence- after all, if she was a spy, then she would not openly talk to Mr. Oh and try to hide her tracks.

Right now, Sofia was still trying to understand the reason why Mrs. Phelps thought this would work. There should be another reason why she had been openly talking to Mr. Oh sadly, Sofia does not have a way to read the woman’s mind.

Still, she was thankful that she was able to trace some leaks. This prompted her to be very careful about her future designs and find out

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who she could and could not trust.

“lam going to break up with Daniel...” Sofia said, her voice almost like a whisper.

“Miss?” Miss Amores had a surprised look on her face. It was as if half of her was not expecting her to suddenly open up about her love life while the other half could not believe what she just heard. Miss Amores

awkwardly stared at her. “Do- Do you need me to get some more wine?” W Sofia blinked. “No. Thank you. | only told you this because | don’t want him in this building.”

“| know what to do,” Miss Amores said. She nodded, her face bobbing up and down as if she just thought of something important. Then she promptly excused herself, leaving Sofia alone inside the room.

Asigh escaped Sofia’s lips.

If Miss Amores was indeed Lawrence’s spy, then... she could expect a few phone calls from Charlotte and maybe even from Daniel very soon. At the moment, those two wanted her to give her shares to Daniel, and that would not happen if she broke up with him.

So, Sofia waited and waited but did not receive a call from Daniel or from Charlotte. Aside from a text from Charlotte asking her if she wanted her to clarify the issue and Daniel asking her if she was alright, Sofia did not receive anything else.

However, this only made her more suspicious. The answer to her: confusion only arrived hours later when she was enjoying a glass of wine at home.