Exposing the Charade of Deep Affection (PDF)

Chapter 396

Chapter 396 You Knew All Along?

“Humph!” He threw me to the ground with a force that was far from gentle. Over the past few days, I

had been locked up here, and many times, I was on the verge of breaking down. Now, being thrown by

him, I felt dizzy and disoriented.

He crouched beside me, suddenly threw me onto the bed, and before I could react, he was on top of

me. I froze, realizing what he was about to do, and in a sudden panic, I pushed him away.

The man was not only strong, but also exceptionally heavy. I couldn’t push him away at all. He

captured my hands, raised them above my head, and pressed me down. He looked at me, his eyes

filled with coldness and violence, and an emotion I couldn’t understand. “Tabatha, you seem to be quite

pleased to see me in such a mess?”

I pursed my lips, remained silent, but the expression on my face said it all.

He looked at me, his voice slightly hoarse, “Want to know what happened outside?”

I really didn’t want to talk to him any more than necessary, but having stayed here for a few days, I

wanted to know what was happening outside more than anyone else. For a moment, I instinctively

looked up at him.

Seeing my reaction, his face seemed to lighten up a bit. His long, attractive fingers caressed my lips,

his voice hoarse as he said, “Make me happy, and I’ll tell you.”

I furrowed my brows fiercely, glaring at him angrily. He was not annoyed, but suddenly lowered his

head and leaned towards me.

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Instinctively, I dodged. Seeing this, he didn’t move anymore, just looked at me, his handsome brows

slightly furrowed.

I faintly smelled a hint of blood, instinctively furrowed my brows, and asked instinctively, “Are you

hurt?”

His face darkened, he didn’t respond to me, but just stood up and distanced himself from me, returning

to the black leather single-seater sofa, leaning back lazily.

Over the past few days, I had roughly figured it out. He didn’t seem to want to kill me, nor did he want

to torture me. He seemed to simply want to keep me locked up here.

Realizing this, I looked at him and ventured, “Ezra, what are you planning to do?”

His dark eyes flicked towards me, raising an eyebrow, “Want to know?”

Nonsense.

I pursed my lips, saying, “Do you plan to keep me locked up forever? I’ve been missing for too long.

Even without evidence, given Walter’s influence in River City, he will eventually find me. And Captain

Lucas’s death, whatever he could discover, other police officers could discover too. It’s just a matter of

time.”

He looked at me, his dark eyes narrowed, “What? Trying to threaten me into letting you go?”

I didn’t respond to him, instead, I was looking at the place under his black shirt that was faintly stained

wet, the place where I had stabbed him before. He had appeared in front of me as if nothing had

happened, I thought he was fine, but now it seems, it’s not light, his condition has worsened over the

past few days, which is enough to show that his situation in River City is very bad at this moment.

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He seemed a bit tired. After giving me a glance, he dialed the phone in his hand and said to the person

on the other end, “Bring the stuff in.”

After speaking, he hung up the phone.

In half a minute, there was a noise from the stairway. Then Sebastian came in with something in his

hand. Seeing me, he just glanced at me indifferently, handed the thing to Ezra, and then left.

Ezra held something in his hand, looking at me with a crooked eyebrow. The calculation on his

devilishly handsome face was too obvious, making me frown involuntarily, with a bad premonition in my

heart.

Sure enough, he opened the thing that Sebastian had brought in, it was a stack of documents, looking

like contracts. He handed them to me, raising an eyebrow, “Take a look.”

I didn’t know what he was up to. I took it and roughly read through it. The content of the contract was

from ten years ago, about the purchase and mining of Mount Snake, as well as a series of contracts

signed with the government. There were also many documents about the Hinton family mining the

mountain.

My heart skipped a beat as I looked at Ezra. He didn’t look at me, but directly turned on the television

at the foot of the bed. He pressed the memory in, and when the television turned on, it was a video, a

video of Henry.

He actually recounted everything about the Ilinton family from ten years ago, even including the funds

the Ilinton family had given him, the task they had given him to settle the affairs of the hundreds of

people who died on Mount Snake, and all the benefits the Hinton family had promised him.

A disaster that was originally man-made, how it was whitewashed into

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an accident, he narrated it word by word, even leaving behind the geological conditions that were

specifically technically inspected that year, completely denying the claim that Mount Snake would have

a natural disaster. Henry recorded all the people involved in helping to cover up this matter who

benefited that year. At the end of the video, he even said that if he died, it would definitely be the Hinton

family trying to silence him by killing him.

After watching the video, my heart skipped a beat. I, of course, knew what had happened ten years

ago, but I didn’t expect Ezra to know, let alone have so much evidence. And then there was Henry, a

dead man, leaving behind all the evidence.

“Aren’t you surprised?” Looking at my expression, Ezra smirked, sizing me up. “I thought you’d be

furious, unable to accept that the Hinton family could be so brutal. But looking at you now, you don’t

seem surprised at all. Tabatha, don’t tell me you knew all along?”

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