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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