Chapter 436 – Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel

Filed To Story: Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel

A new group of criminals had just been sent to the women’s prison in Averna. A woman who was wiping the greasy table top raised her head and looked up at the people who were swarming in for lunch. Then, she stopped wiping and looked carefully before she quickly turned her back, afraid that someone would recognize her.

The woman was Hayley. She was in a gray scrub and had her hair trimmed to her ears. She had been here for almost a month now and had nearly severed all contact from the outside world. However, she did not expect to meet her acquaintance here.

Among the people that came in earlier, she knew one of them: Erica Tillman. She had the same haircut as Hayley and wore the same clothes, so it was obvious that Erica was sent to serve in prison.

Currently, Erica looked haggard and pale. Back then, she was treated like a princess. Now, she was forced to eat things she had never eaten before. The food served here wasn’t even served to her servants back at home, but she had no choice.

It was as if she was getting her karma served to her. Although she had gone through her initial remorse till her current awakening, it was too late.

She would have to spend the second half of her life here as she was serving over ten years of imprisonment. Erica was quietly eating her rock-solid steamed buns and some rancid noodles when she heard a sharp voice yelling, “Hayley, what are you doing? Get back to work.”

Right then, Erica froze in her place. She raised her head and looked in the direction of the voice and saw a familiar figure. Although the woman had deliberately turned her back toward her, Erica could still recognize her at a glance.

Hayley Seymour! A sudden gush of anger was suddenly ignited in Erica’s heart because in her eyes, Hayley was despicable and shameless. She had blatantly stolen Erica’s man and fed her with negative thoughts that ruined her life.

Erica thereafter grabbed the soup on the side and walked toward Hayley. All this while, Hayley had her head lowered in an attempt to avoid Erica recognizing her. However, at this moment, she turned around when she heard the approaching footsteps and a bowl of cold soup was immediately splashed across her face.

“Ahhhh!” Hayley was struggling to open her eyes when she was slapped hard across the face in the next second.

As if the slap wasn’t enough, Erica started screaming while reaching out to pull her hair. “Hayley Seymour, you b*tch! I’m going to kill you!”

“Erica Tillman, let me go.” Hayley’s scalp began to burn with pain and two correctional officers came over at this moment to separate the two and give them their fair share of scolding.

Hayley’s face was filled with disgust as she wiped her face. As she had gone through several plastic surgeries, the lumps on her forehead were prominent.

“Haha! Look at your face! You look like a witch! It’s disgusting!” Erica sat down and mocked Hayley, who went back to wiping the table.

Hearing this, Hayley sneered. “And I’ll continue to disgust you. We’ll have to see each other for more than ten years anyway! Anastasia is a gem now and known as Mrs. Presgrave. Do you know that she and Elliot are married? She is also the eldest daughter of the Tillman Family. As for you, you are just a piece of trash by the side of the road while she is dazzling like a diamond.”

Erica bit her lips. Of course, she couldn’t tell Hayley how she really felt because of her envy toward Anastasia. However, right now, she couldn’t even have the freedom she desired the most. What was the use of being jealous?

“Alex is also sentenced! We’re all ruined.

None of us will live a good life,” Hayley continued as she sat across Erica to rest.

Erica’s eyes darkened at the sound of this.. Her parents were jailed and she herself was imprisoned. At the end of the day, had she ever regretted her capriciousness and malice?

She was filled with remorse. If she had been given another chance, she would have never destroyed herself to this extent. She would find an average man to marry, have a child together with him, and be a good wife.

“There’s no use regretting,” Hayley commented as if she could read Erica’s mind.

Then, Erica raised her head and asked, “I still have no idea how you got thrown in here!”

Hayley had no intention of hiding it from Emily. For her, those days were the happiest time of her life.

“Did you know? That year, when we were plotting against Anastasia, it wasn’t a gigolo who entered the room. It was

Elliot Presgrave. After Elliot handed her a watch, she then left it on the ground. Then, the waiter contacted me and gave me that watch.” Hayley clearly remembered the day when Elliot came to her store to look for her. He was dignified and exuded a masculine charm that made her fall in love with him at first sight.

Erica’s eyes widened as she prodded, “And then?”

“Five years later, the business was so bad in my store that I had to sell the watch. A week later, Elliot returned to my store and asked whether I was the woman in the room that night. I said yes,” a shameless Hayley answered.

After that, Erica scolded, “You are shameless.”

“You would’ve done the same. Elliot said he was going to make amends. He gave me a big villa, a sports car, a black card with no limits, and a few servants. At that time, I was beautiful and happy. I could buy whatever I wanted. There would be nights where I get to dine with Elliot and go on jewelry exhibitions together.” Speaking of this, Hayley turned to Erica. “Didn’t I get you a few gifts that were worth more than half a million?!”

At this moment, Erica finally knew how Hayley became a wealthy woman overnight. It turned out that she had stolen Anastasia’s identity and took advantage of the compensation..

“And that’s how I ended up here. I did that for about seven months. I’ve spent 35 million of Elliot’s money. In the end, I was tricked by Anastasia and I was charged with extortion.” Then, Hayley smiled bitterly and continued, “People say you can’t have too much of a good thing because it’ll eventually bite you in the back.”

And because of this, she was using the rest of her life to pay for her mistakes.

Erica initially wanted to call out Hayley for being insatiable and not knowing her boundaries. However, when Erica reflected on herself, she was also someone with blood on her hands. Instead, she said nothing for a while because she deserved to end up here.

A financial summit was held in the city on Friday and it was an event which the people of the financial industry took with seriousness.

After reading the email, a woman sitting in the spacious office had a complicated look in her eyes.

That woman was Lolerai Presgrave. Ever since her last meeting with Elliot, she had accepted his recommendation to work in another financial company. All this while, she had been restraining herself and waiting for the opportunity to show up. She did not dare to offend him and did not want to confront Anastasia in the open.

Lolerai’s father had been eyeing a project under Elliot’s hands. Although her father wanted to get a hold of it, the Presgrave Group had strict rules. They would rather cooperate with outsiders than the people of the Presgrave Family as this had been an unwritten rule of the Presgrave Family. However, Lolerai’s father wasn’t the only one who had their eyes on the wealth of the Presgrave Group.

All of them were waiting for one thing; they patiently waited year after year while looking forward to Harriet’s death. Once she was out of the picture, Elliot would be on his own. Without her strict defense, he might not be able to withstand the pressure of the entire family. Lolerai had been looking forward to this moment as she was confident that he would show up.

At that time, Anastasia wouldn’t be by his side, and Lolerai might be able to seize this chance to strike. She was confident in herself and did not believe there were men who wouldn’t cheat.

At Presgrave Group, Elliot had also received the invitation and accepted it.

There were several companies that he was interested in cooperating with that were attending the summit this time.

Anastasia had accompanied him to the company today. Bourgeois was implementing a reformation plan and had decided to buy a diamond mind and raw stones abroad. This was necessary as their company had decided to create a luxurious and customizable platform.

Six high-level executives of the company were gathered in the conference room. Anastasia sat on the main seat with her long hair on her shoulders while she listened to her subordinates’ reports with firm, bright eyes and radiated the aura of a charismatic leader.

It required a different kind of courage for one to be a leader, which was something that Anastasia had been exercising. As the Presgrave Family had many extended family members, she had to shoulder the burden of being the lady boss of the family, and there would be more things that would require her to decide in the future.

After the meeting, she called for Larry and carefully listened to his opinions. He was a senior executive of Bourgeois and was more experienced in this area.

“President Tillman, if we want Bourgeois to grow and be stronger, it is vital for us to have our own mine. Now, several big foreign brands have already begun to monopolize the stones. We will have to make a decision soon.”

“What’s the recovery rate for extraction?”

“According to our current data, the recovery rate is within the acceptable range. However, this is something like a gamble. We would need luck to be on our side.”

Hearing this, Anastasia nodded. “Okay, I’ll decide in three days’ time.” Not long after Larry left, there was a knock on the door, to which she responded, “Come in.”

The person at the door was Katrina. She was at the company to sign a contract and came especially to thank Anastasia.

“Anastasia, thank you for giving me this opportunity,” she commented while failing to contain her excitement.

“You should read through the terms and conditions of our contract. I hope that you will abide by it. You only get one chance. Please cherish it!” Anastasia said.

When Katrina heard this, she felt her heart tighten. The silent warning behind Anastasia’s words pressured her as her personal life was never smooth.

“I know. I won’t let you down.” Then, Katrina added, “Please take care of my brother.”

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