Chapter 296 – Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel

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“Find Mr. Presgrave’s card and watch.” Rey gave the bodyguards an order.

“No, please don’t take my card away! Please don’t…” Hayley tried to grab her handbag, but the guards were one step ahead of her as they emptied it and reached for her wallet. As soon as they got their hands on the black card, they wiped it with a piece of tissue paper and handed it over to Elliot. Nonetheless, he didn’t take the card. Instead, he let Rey take it. In the meantime, one of his bodyguards headed upstairs and came down shortly after he found Elliot’s watch and returned it to him.

When Hayley saw what they were doing, she lost her mind and shouted, “No, none of you can take anything away from me! They are all mine! I deserve them, Elliot! You’re indebted to me, so you can’t take them away from me.” As Hayley wanted to hug Elliot’s thigh to beg him not to take away her possessions, two of his bodyguards immediately restrained her to keep her from getting closer to Elliot.

“Take all her possessions and throw them away.” Elliot gritted his teeth, ordering his guards to take everything away from Hayley.

Hayley immediately covered her necklace with her hands, her eyes left wide open in horror. After all, she wasn’t about to give up a necklace worth over five million, but soon, a bodyguard came closer while the other two pinned her to the ground. Humiliated, Hayley screamed out loud. “You can’t do this to me! You can’t do this to me, Elliot! Help me! Ouch! It hurts, Elliot!” Despite the lady’s painful screams, Elliot’s gaze had no sympathy at all; there was only coldness and indifference to it.

The guard swiftly removed Hayley’s necklace, as well as her diamond bracelet, diamond watch, and diamond ring. After that, the guard reached for her handbag, in which he put her cell phone and identification documents before throwing it back to her. With her messy hair, Hayley was seen sitting while crying on the floor while glaring at Elliot resentfully. “If I had known you were so heartless when you slept with me five years ago, I wouldn’t have bothered to save you, Elliot!”

No matter how Hayley complained, Elliot’s eyes were only filled with hatred as he appeared emotionless. “You set Anastasia up five years ago, and now you tried to kill my grandmother. The two of them are the women I love the most, so you should consider yourself lucky that you’re still breathing right now.”

“Miss Seymour, I’d like to ask you a question. Why did you instruct the guards at Abyss Club to burn down the server room? What are you hiding?” Rey seized the opportunity and asked.

Hayley’s face changed as she looked at Rey in horror. “I-I did no such thing.”

“What are you not telling us?” Elliot questioned Hayley.

Upon hearing Elliot’s question, Hayley was horrified to realize that the former had already started to investigate the incident five years ago. For that, she was grateful that she had acted soon enough to destroy the evidence, or her lies would have been exposed a long time ago. “Yes, I did that because I didn’t want anyone to know that you slept with me.” Hayley tried to brush Elliot off with an excuse, but the man wasn’t convinced by her perfunctory explanation at all. I don’t believe in her words. They are not convincing at all, and I’m sure she knows more than she lets on.

On the other hand, Rey reckoned it was a good thing for Elliot for confronting Hayley about the incident five years ago. By doing so, Hayley could no longer mess around in the name of what had happened back then.

Soon, Elliot stood up, seemingly tired of looking at Hayley’s face as he turned to his bodyguard. “Get her out of my manor.”

“Please don’t do this to me, Elliot! Please, no! I’m sorry. I’ve learned from my mistakes now, so please forgive me!” Hayley rose to her feet in a panicky manner, wanting to collapse into Elliot’s embrace. However, just when she was a foot away from him, she stopped in her tracks.

It turned out that Elliot’s nonchalant yet menacing gaze fell upon Hayley, intimidating her with his prominent status. At the same time, Hayley didn’t dare to take a step forward as if she was about to fall off the edge of a cliff even though she was only standing several feet away from the man.

“I’ll get out of here myself.” Hayley clenched her jaw, thinking she should do one last thing that would make her proud in front of Elliot. In the meantime, she couldn’t help but figure out whether Elliot would treat her better after he had calmed down from his anger. Therefore, as she walked closer and closer to the door, she was looking forward to hearing Elliot calling out to her out of sympathy, but in the end, her wish didn’t come true.

Instead, Hayley only felt a pair of cold eyes glued to her as she walked out the door. Upon stepping out of the manor, she looked back and took in the big house in which she had stayed for the last six months. The place felt like a castle to her, and she had enjoyed a life of wealth and comfort like a princess who was taken care of by her servants. Then, when she laid eyes on the Ferrari that she deemed was supposed to be hers, she couldn’t help but feel sorry to see it taken away from her, along with everything else she owned just a few minutes ago.

Now that she was back to being a normal person with nothing left, she regretted not transferring some of the properties under her name and stashing some of the expensive jewelry in her house. After all, she never had a thought that she would end up so miserably one day. Deep down, she beat herself and regretted harming someone innocent. If I didn’t do any harm to anyone, I would still be enjoying all this. What the heck have I done?

However, Hayley quickly asked herself how a lady couldn’t be blinded by her delusionally idealized fantasy after meeting a man like Elliot. Well, I guess it’s not something fortunate for a lady to be treated kindly by Elliot. Instead, it’s a misfortune in disguise because it is going to drive her crazy since she will now crave to marry Elliot more than ever. Then, Hayley realized her madness all began with her love for Elliot, which was why she had done everything to win him over even though that had eventually led to her downfall.

Soon, Hayley looked up and saw Elliot standing by the window. Meanwhile, the man seemed as graceful and handsome as he usually was, but she felt sorry for herself because she now no longer had the chance to even ask to see him.

After leaving the manor, she realized the only valuable thing was the outfit that she was wearing at that moment. After all, she had spent hundreds of thousands purchasing her coat and tens of thousands on her shoes and handbag, but other than those things, she had nothing else left with her.

In just a day, Hayley lost everything and went back to the way she used to live her old days. At the thought of that, she could no longer fight back her tears as she cursed Elliot and Anastasia, hoping they would suffer terribly until they died. She then curled her lips upward and smiled since she was planning to keep Anastasia in the dark about Elliot’s identity as her son’s father.

At the same time, she gloated at Elliot’s unawareness about Jared’s actual identity, finding joy in the fact that Elliot thought Jared was Anastasia’s illegitimate child with another man when he was in fact his son. Only I know this secret, but too bad that I’m going to keep it with me until my last dying breath. By then, I’m going to reveal it and make them suffer in remorse. I want Anastasia to remember that she slept with Elliot once back then. That’s going to sting her like a nail in her chest, eh?

“Anastasia and Elliot, you will both die a horrible death!” Hayley cursed the two of them with a loud voice. Not long after that, she decided to settle down at a nearby café, trying hard to adjust to her normal life after having lived her days luxuriously and comfortably for the past six months. Upon ordering herself a cup of coffee, she silently swallowed the unpleasant truth of being treated meanly by Elliot who had now become the person for whom she had nothing but hatred and grudges.

After taking a sip of her coffee, Hayley was stunned by the diluted taste. She remembered ordering a cup of coffee with a rich flavor, yet she didn’t taste anything except for a strange hint of bitterness. “Is there something with your coffee? Why does it taste terrible?” Hayley vented out her anger on the waiter.

The waiter came over and asked, “Is there anything wrong with the coffee, miss?”

“What kind of coffee did you serve me? It contains no fragrance at all. I asked for hand-brewed coffee. Is this instant coffee?” Hayley inquired.

“It is indeed hand-brewed coffee, miss,” the waiter explained.

“This is the worst cup of coffee I’ve ever had!” After finishing her words, Hayley stood up angrily.

As she approached the door, she heard two ladies mocking her.

“Despite her nice outfit, her personality is terrible.”

“Exactly! It’s as if she’s uneducated.”

Hayley turned her head to see the two ladies mocking her and chastised them. “What are you talking about behind my back?”

“Did we refer to you? We’re just talking about a b*tch who was barking earlier. Why are you fitting yourself into what we said?”

Just as Hayley was about to walk over and confront them, they waved their hands to someone behind her. “We’re here, my dear.”

At that, Hayley turned her head and saw two bulky men walking in. When she saw them, she became frightened and left after casting a stern glare at the two ladies.

After she exited, she realized at that moment that she no longer had the right to be arrogant. She was even having trouble surviving now. It was easier to transition from frugality to excess, but not the other way around.

In the past six months, she had no friends and had not communicated with her family at all. She was a selfish person who would never share anything good with others. Hence, for the past six months, she was busy enjoying herself without even helping her family out. Her family remained poor and still struggled to make ends meet.

She, on the other hand, had lived the life of a princess. She had plastic surgery, drove expensive cars, lived in a luxury bungalow, and carried a premium credit card with an unlimited limit.

Meeting Elliot was the disaster that ruined her life.

At this point, Hayley noticed a swarm of cars exiting the intersection in front of her. The line of Rolls-Royces that cost millions looked imposing on the road. Indeed, they belonged to Elliot.

Hayley suddenly recalled that she could take some of them and sell them since her villa was full of luxury things. She might be able to survive for a while with the money she received from the sale.

However, after hailing a cab to the villa, she discovered that the password for the gate’s digital lock had changed. She gritted her teeth and attempted to enter from the other side, but she accidentally set off the warning alarm while climbing in. As a result, she was forced to flee in despair.

When she had previously lived here, Rey had assured her that she did not need to be concerned about its security because there was a warning alarm outside the wall. If anyone broke in, the alarm would notify the security office that would immediately notify the police station who would thereafter dispatch officers over.

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