Chapter 415
But senously, who would wanna get involved in this mess?
Since Shawn got all chummy with the big shots, he’s ditched all his real friends and never really made any new ones.
Most of his new buddies are just fair weather friends Pfft, he can’t count on those guys
Some of them don’t even pick up his calls anymore.
Even when he changes his number, and they don’t recognize it, they hang up as soon as they hear his voice. And for the few who pick up, they re just trying to snoop and fish for information they don’t really want to help him
He’s super anxious and can’t find peace at all.
After treating Angels wounds, Helen said, “Shawn, stop making calls already It’s pointless now. Let’s figure out what to do next”
“What should I do? You tell me!” Shawn’s face looked terrible.
Ever since Angels background got exposed online, it’s been blowin’ up-people all over the internet are boycotting their products
This afternoon, the company received a crapload of returns.
He’s recently invested in Smart Chips and wired them 20 million bucks. He didn’t have enough money to refund these returns.
If this situation kept going on, the company wouldn’t survive for long.
He’s really at his wits end.
Just then, his phone rang.
Surprisingly, it was Celeste calling.
After Shawn called her bunch of times earlier, she had yet to picked up. And now, she finally called back in this mess.
Trying his best to hold back the anger, he took a deep breath and picked up the call.
Before picking up, he was thinking about how to solve the problem with Celeste.
But as soon as Celeste opened her mouth, his plan fell apart at the seams.
She said, “Shawn, how’d you enjoy the show today?”
Her words were about what Caitlyn said when she took evidence against the accountant who manipulated the company’s loopholes and sent him to jail.
That fear hit him like a ton of bricks again.
He felt like he could see Caitlyn smiling at him with a chilling gaze.
Grinding his teeth, Shawn said in a low voice, “What’s the point of doing this for you? Even Quantum is implicated-You think you can get away
with it?”
“I never thought I could get out of this unscathed, Celeste replied coldly. “As soon as I knew you were planning to give up on my mom’s treatment when I saw you cut the donations to the orphanage, when I saw all the disgusting things you’ve done, I was ready to take you down with me.” Shaking angerily, Shawn asked, “What do you want then?!”
“I’m giving you two options. Either you walk away with nothing, and I won’t release the evidence I have, so your daughter will be safe or admit publicly that you were seduced and drunkenly slept with Angel’s mother, and I’ll keep the evidence of your company’s tax evasion hidden. You can divorce my mom, and I’ll be your witness in court. Your choice: save yourself or your daughter?”
Celeste’s words were clear as day light.
“Faking donations and tax evasion can get you locked up, you know.”
Shawn’s heart tightened.
Her words reminded him of seven years ago.
