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“I’ll inform you immediately if there are any updates from the Presgraves,” said Ethan.
“Okay.” Josephine was extremely grateful. After hanging up, she received a call from Wren. “Joey, the Presgraves contacted our TV station. It was so sudden that the director had to answer the call himself.”
“What happened, then?” “The Presgraves asked us to delete those photos, but they’ll provide new ones for us later. They’ve decided to give our TV station exclusive permission to share them. Joey, I’m pretty sure that the director will reward you handsomely when you return.”
Josephine was stunned. Did the tragedy turn into a fortune? Even if this matter was resolved, Josephine would never forgive the person who did it. She then asked Wren to get her the login details of the public submission mailbox account.
She would reply to that email and announce that the sender would be rewarded for submitting those photos, inviting them to come forward and receive their remuneration. She wanted to see if the sender would fall for the bait.
Wren went ahead and acquired the login details for Josephine. After ending the call, Josephine let out a relieved sigh. She felt that Ethan must be helping out behind the scenes too. If she had time, she would treat him to a meal in the future.
By the time she returned to her senses, her mother was already urging her to get ready for the banquet at night. Josephine still felt guilty toward the Presgraves, for the despicable person had leaked photos of the wedding without any care just to get revenge on her.
Josephine wanted to catch this perpetrator. Even if she couldn’t do anything about them, she wanted to expose this person’s identity. Josephine believed that the person was none other than Selena.
When Josephine arrived at the banquet venue, Selena was sitting there as well. When Selena saw Josephine, there was a gleeful look in her eyes, and it seemed as though she was waiting for horrible consequences to befall the other woman.
Josephine sat down next to her mother, and she returned Selena’s gaze with a fierce glare.. Just then, her phone rang with a notification. It was a message from Wren. Josephine took her phone out and logged into the account. Then, she found the anonymous email along with the photos attached to it.
Josephine immediately replied to the person to test it out. She replied professionally with a text that read, ‘Dear sender, congratulations! Your submission has brought profit to our company, and we would like to reward you for that. Please call the following number to receive the reward.’ Then, Josephine keyed in her phone number.
After sending the email, Josephine waited for the sender to take the bait. A message appeared on Selena’s phone. Even though she sent the email anonymously, she could still receive replies from it. When she saw that the TV station had replied to her, she grabbed her phone in a panic, then got up and went out.
When Josephine saw Selena getting up and leaving the table, she was almost certain that Selena was the perpetrator. This time, she would catch Selena. Josephine got up with her phone in hand as well. Then, she followed Selena to the lawn outside.
Selena was sitting on a bench on the lawn while looking at her phone. When she opened the email and read it, she couldn’t help feeling surprised and elated for a few seconds. She didn’t think she would be rewarded for submitting something.
Could it be a cash reward? Selena was in dire need of money right now, so she would never pass up the chance to get any. She quickly memorized the phone number stated in the email; she wanted to ask how much money she could get at once.
Selena dialed the number and waited for the person to pick up. Meanwhile, Josephine was holding her phone which was on silent mode. Just then, a call came in.
Josephine’s red lips curved into a sneer. As she picked up the phone, she walked toward Selena. As soon as the call went through, Selena asked anxiously, “Hello, I heard that your company gives out rewards for submissions, am I right?” “Yes, that’s true,” Josephine answered enthusiastically as she walked toward Selena.
Selena had no idea that Josephine was walking over to her from behind. She just wanted to know how much money she could get as a reward, so she continued asking, “May I know what the reward is? Will it be in the form of money or a gift?”
At that moment, there were only a few feet between Josephine and Selena. Josephine strode right up to Selena and stared at the latter. When Selena saw her, she was flustered for a moment before she said angrily, “Can’t you see that I’m on a call?”
“You were asking about the reward for your submission to our TV station, weren’t you?” Josephine was sufficiently pissed as anger colored her beautiful eyes. She suddenly raised her hand, then delivered a slap across Selena’s face.
Selena was seated, so she couldn’t dodge it in time. Hence, she received Josephine’s slap squarely on the face. “How… How dare you hit me!” Selena never thought that Josephine would hit her.
Josephine raised her phone and showed Selena the number displayed on it. “I used the email to bait you, successfully proving that you were the one who leaked the photos. Selena, come with me to the bride and apologize to her.”
Selena’s face immediately turned red as she realized that the reward was just a lie, and her actions of framing Josephine were exposed just like that.
When Selena heard that Josephine wanted to take her to Ellen, she hastily put on a pleading expression. “I’m so sorry, Miss Jacobson. I didn’t do it on purpose, and I sent those photos without thinking. Please have mercy on me!”
Josephine crossed her arms and snorted. “Have mercy on you? You almost ruined my reputation, and now you’re asking me to have mercy?”
“How about this, Miss Jacobson? I’ll do everything you ask. As long as you don’t tell anyone about this, I’ll even kneel in front of you!’ Selena was panicking now. She never thought that Josephine would figure out that it was her. She glanced around, and with the bench as an obstruction, she got down on her knees in front of Josephine.
“Miss Jacobson, I’m begging you. Please forgive me.” “Forgive you? Do you know how much the Presgraves were affected by the photos you leaked? I will never forgive you.” Josephine was not open to negotiation. She walked toward the banquet hall with her phone in hand. At that moment, the neon lights lit up, looking pretty and festive.
After Josephine went back to her seat, she took out her phone and sent Ethan the recording of the conversation between her and Selena. She also sent a message saying, ‘I’ve figured it out. Selena was the one who leaked the photos. She even admitted to it’
Meanwhile, Ethan was about to leave the villa to get to the banquet hall. He heard the notification and proceeded to read Josephine’s message. Then, after listening to the recording, he forwarded it to Jared. He left a voice message, saying, “Jared, we’ve found the culprit. Josephine is innocent. Deal with it as you please.”
At that moment, Jared was waiting for Ellen to change into her evening dress. He grabbed his phone and listened to the recording right away. His sharp eyebrows immediately furrowed. Selena didn’t turn from her evil nature, and she even leaked photos of the wedding to frame someone else. A person like her had no right to attend his wedding, much less be treated as a guest.
Jared lifted his phone once more and gave an order to the person on the other end of the line, instructing, “Go to the banquet hall and ask the guest named Selena Aguirre to leave. Get her off the island immediately.”
“Understood, Mr. Presgrave.” Meanwhile, Selena was still seated on the bench. She was stressed out, and she felt that Josephine wasn’t someone she could mess with. She wondered if Josephine would tell Jared about this. If so, a terrible end would await her.
The bodyguards couldn’t find Selena in the banquet hall, so they went to the garden to look for her. When the two bodyguards spotted Selena sitting there, they immediately went over to her and stood behind her, saying, “Miss Aguirre, Mr. Presgrave wants you to leave the island immediately. Please come with us.”
Selena’s face turned pale in shock. She hastily said, “I am a guest, and the bride’s cousin at that. You can’t just chase me out.” “Those are orders from the young master. If you refuse to cooperate, Miss Aguirre, we’ll have no choice but to force you out.”
“How dare you?! Bring me to your young mistress. I want to see Ellen.” Selena didn’t want to leave, for she had planned on enjoying another week on this island. Even if she couldn’t get Ethan, she had other chances.
Also, this would be the only time she could visit this island, and she hadn’t had enough fun just yet. Even if she had to shamelessly beg Ellen for it, she wanted to stay.
Seeing her refusal to cooperate, the bodyguard could only call Jared and say, “Mr. Presgrave, Miss Aguirre wants to speak to the young mistress.” Jared said, “Let me have a word with her.”
The bodyguard immediately passed the phone to Selena. “Mr. Presgrave wants to talk to you.” Selena took the phone with shaky hands and placed it to her ear. “M-Mr. Presgrave,”
“Selena, from today onward, I won’t let Ellen have anything to do with your family anymore. Also, you’re not allowed to talk to her for the rest of your life-you have no right to. If you don’t want my subordinates getting rough with you, you’d better get lost right now, Jared said furiously. Even if he were the bridegroom, he refused to give Selena any respect..
Selena’s face reddened before it turned pale. Jared’s words were like a dozen slaps to her face, and she felt her face burning in pain. After returning the phone to the bodyguard, Selena stood up and said, “I’ll inform my parents, then I’ll go with you.”
With that, she bit her lip and walked toward the banquet hall. When Olivia saw her coming back, she immediately said, “Lena, come and sit down. The food is served, and lobsters are on the menu. You love them, don’t you?”
Opposite them, Josephine sneered as she looked at Selena. When she saw the two bodyguards at the entrance, she knew that Selena would be chased out soon. At that moment, she was very much satisfied. “Mom, I… I have to leave. I need to deal with. something urgent, so enjoy the dinner with Dad,” said Selena.
“What? What’s so urgent that you have to leave right now? Aren’t we going to stay here for another week?” Olivia was so anxious that she stood up. She was completely out of the loop.
and she didn’t want her daughter to waste this opportunity. “Mom, I really can’t stay here. I have to go.” With that, Selena turned around and walked away, her eyes red.
“Lena, Lena-” Olivia shouted, feeling distraught. Connor was confused as well. “Why did Lena leave just like that?” “I’m not sure either. We planned on spending another week here, so why is she leaving already?” Olivia felt that her daughter shouldn’t leave at all.
When Josephine saw that, she knew right away that Selena hadn’t dared tell her parents about what she did. Josephine decided that she would be nice and tell them instead!
“Oh, that girl. She was even making a fuss about eating lobsters this morning!” Olivia looked toward the main entrance, wishing she could just drag her daughter back.
Meanwhile, Selena was in the bodyguards’ car, on the way back to the villa to gather her things. After that, she had a dejected look on her face as she was sent to the airport, where a helicopter soon took her away.
Meanwhile, there was a celebratory atmosphere in the banquet hall. Josephine was a little upset because of Selena’s incident, so she drank more wine than usual, and she couldn’t quite stop. “Joey, this wine is nice too. Do you want some?” At the side, Luke introduced more wine to her.
Frankly speaking, Heidi was quite satisfied with Luke. Even though Luke didn’t have outstanding looks, he still came from a decent background. He had also put in a lot of effort to pursue her daughter, but her daughter declined his advances all the time..
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