After listening to their situations, Noah suspected that someone either tampered with the company’s stocks or hacked into the computer systems to create an illusion of rising stock prices, thus scamming the stockholders.
This meant that the malicious person was one of the company’s employees. All the evidence pointed back to that person, the criminal mastermind of it all— Evelyn.
Noah went back to the company and found the video clip of Evelyn and Peter’s conversation from that day. After duplicating and backing up a copy, he planned to return to the hospital and let Vivian decide how to go about this matter.
“Mrs. Norton, I’ve found out what happened to the company’s stocks.” Noah raced into the room and explained the ins and outs of the entire incident.
Vivian was rendered speechless.
It was impossible for the company’s stock prices to continuously show an upward trend. Vivian knew that much because the stock prices were determined based on relevant treaties.
Despite knowing this fact, the stockholders still recklessly invested all their assets into stocks… As cruel as it may be, it was only in the course of nature that they would lose everything they invested.
“My investigation shows that this was all Evelyn’s doing. Look, here’s the video clip of Evelyn and Peter’s conversation.” Noah placed the laptop before Vivian, allowing her to see what transpired during the two’s conversation.
“How bold of Evelyn to sneak into the company at that time.” Vivian shook her head distastefully at the video, then looked at Noah.
“Hand this video clip to the police station. Have them call in an expert lip-reader to produce a transcript of what was said between Evelyn and Peter,” Vivian instructed. She felt certain that if the two were discussing their plans in the video, a forensic lip-reader would certainly be able to decipher it.
Once the truth reveals itself, Finnick will be proven as an innocent victim!
The thought of this made hope swell in Vivian’s chest as she clapped happily. All that’s left now is to wait for the results.
She had a gut feeling that this time, she could definitely save Finnick.
Noah heeded her orders and delivered the video clip evidence to the police station. As he was exiting the station, Noah thought he had seen a familiar figure, but the figure disappeared when he turned around to get a better look.
Noah shook his head rapidly, thinking that he must have overworked himself into seeing things.
He reassured himself that he probably saw wrongly and headed home.
“What’s this? Now that your beloved man has been arrested, you’re finally gracing me with a visit?” Mark teased sarcastically. He sat in the visiting room, grinning at the thought of Evelyn’s suffering.
Noah did, in fact, catch a glimpse of Evelyn earlier. But he couldn’t confirm it was her because she stormed off too quickly out of anger.
Evelyn snapped at Mark, “Admit it! This is all part of your dirty trick!”
All I wanted was to make Finnick’s company go bankrupt, then get together with him. But Finnick got arrested instead.
What am I going to do now? Evelyn glared steely-eyed at Mark, who still grinned smugly. White-hot anger fumed from her as she wanted nothing but to give the man a proper beating.
However, she knew that she couldn’t behave so heedlessly at the police station.
“Relax, Ms. Morrison. Have a seat, and let’s talk things out.” Mark mockingly waved for her to sit and calm down.
“How can I relax at a time like this? And what more do we have to talk about? Huh? Talk about how you’re going to get me arrested too?”
Evelyn had instantly dashed over to confront Mark from the moment she found out about Finnick’s arrest.
But after seeing Mark behave so coyly, she realized that she had been fooled from the very beginning.
“There’s still a way to fix things. Don’t you want to know how?” Mark asked as his sinister eyes flickered towards her.
“The hell with your rotten solution! I made the mistake of trusting you once, never again.” Evelyn knew that she couldn’t harm a single hair on Mark, so all she did was yell at him before leaving the police station.
What’s important now is getting Finnick out of jail. But how? I don’t have anything to my name…
Evelyn desperately scavenged for plans. She crouched down and fumbled with her annoyingly troublesome hair, shoving it away from her face.
The only person who’s capable of helping me now is Hunter.
“Please, Hunter, you have to help me.”
Evelyn spelled out the entire story of why she came to Hunter for help, then she anxiously observed his reaction.
