"I can't believe that you're with Vincent! Was it staged when you were captured by Vincent's people
back then?"
Nicole was agitated.
Samuel held her hand tightly and said, "Don't be agitated, darling. It's already over. Alright?"
Nicole suddenly felt like a fool.
She had always stayed alert, yet she got deceived by them.
"I'm so stupid."
Nicole blamed herself.
It broke Samuel's heart to see her blame herself, and he said, "It's not your fault. Vincent has studied
psychology, and he knows how to find people's weakness and use it to his advantage. He and Chuck
cooperated and played the good cop and the bad cop. Even others couldn't spot their trick, let alone
you."
"You're just saying this to make me feel better."
Nicole was still upset.
Samuel was surprised before he said smilingly, "Yes, I'm saying this to make you feel better. Will you
please do me a favor and cheer up?"
His humble tone somehow amused Nicole.
"Don't dote on me so much. You'll spoil me."
"Why not? Doting on you is the most important thing I'm going to do from now on."
Samuel whispered sweet nothings to Nicole so frequently that it made her feel uncomfortable
sometimes.
"There are so many people here. Stop it."
"Did you guys hear anything?"
Samuel asked with a loud voice, and everyone in the living room shook their heads.
Come on. They didn't want to lose their jobs.
Nicole felt her cheeks burning instantly, and she wished to find a hole to hide herself.
Well....
They were in the middle of a serious interrogation, but Samuel just turned it into a love confession
scene.
Nicole didn't even know how to react.
Chuck was also shocked.
Was this really Samuel, who was known as Stone-faced Lucifer?
Or was he mistaken?
Seeing that Chuck was in a daze, Jacob gave him a kick.
"What are you looking at? Hurry up and answer the question."
"Okay." Chuck finally came to his senses and confessed to Nicole, "Yes, it was all staged. Mr. Vincent
told me to go to find you at the amusement park. Then, I pretended that I was monitored by his people
and then taken away by them as we planned. We did this to make you trust me and eventually give us
what we wanted."
"What did you want from me? You told me that you wanted to take me to Mr. Bates."
Nicole realized that she had lived in their lies from the very beginning.
Chuck responded in a low voice, "Mr. Bates didn't know I was doing this. Mr. Vincent promised me that
as long as I take you to meet Mr. Bates and get him what he wanted, he would give me a sum of
money and even arrange for me to go abroad."
"Mr. Bates has always been nice to you all these years, hasn't he?"
Samuel said in an emotionless tone.
Chuck looked down and said, "I owe a debt because of gambling."
When Nicole heard this, she no longer gave a damn whether this man would be killed or not. Once a
person was addicted to drugs or gambling, his life would be over.
Knowing that she had been deceived by Chuck, Nicole figured out the rest.
"You promised to take me to City A, but you knocked me unconscious with the drug and brought me to
this villa because you wanted Mr. Bates to meet me here. Am I right?"
"Yes! Unfortunately, Mr. Bates wasn't at home, and I couldn't reach him. Mr. Vincent told me to let you
go, saying that it'll have different effects if you go to City A."
Upon hearing that, Samuel narrowed his eyes.
"What do you mean by different effects?"
Nicole had already figured out something, but in front of Samuel, she did not dare to verify her
speculation, because she was afraid that Samuel would be pissed off.
However, Chuck failed to read Nicole's facial expression, and he said, "Mr. Vincent told me to find a
family doctor and get the medicine that hasn't been fully tested yet, so that you can have the strength
to make it to City A. As long as you arrive in City A and are caught by Kemp's men, they will have
leverage to force Mr. Green to hand over that thing. He was right. Mr. Green did hand over that thing for
you in the end."
"What?"
Nicole was quite surprised.
She looked at Samuel. A thing that was kept confidential from her must be very important. How could
he give such an important thing to those evil people for her?
"Samuel!"
"Don't listen to his nonsense."
Samuel comforted Nicole before he looked coldly at Chuck.
"Who gave the family doctor that medicine?"
"He made it himself."
"Tell the truth!"
Seeing that Chuck tried to withhold the information, Jacob stabbed the dagger into his thigh.
Chuck screamed out of pain.
And his back was drenched in cold sweat.
This was the first time Nicole had seen Samuel being so ruthless. He seemed to care about nothing,
but his anger made people tremble in fear.
She believed that Jacob only stabbed Chuck because Samuel wanted him to do so.
Ignoring Chuck, who was suffering in pain, Samuel peeled the grapes for Nicole carefully as if no one
else was watching.
Jacob stepped on the wound on Chuck's thigh.
Chuck screamed and almost fainted from the pain.
He heard Jacob's voice, "If you pass out, I'll cut off your leg and feed it to a dog."
"You!"
Chuck's eyes turned red with anger, but Jacob didn't care at all.
"What? Do you think you can beat me?"
His words hit Chuck's weak spot.
He gritted his teeth and said, "It's Mr. Vincent! Vincent is your own brother. You can't hurt your brother,
so you vent your anger on me. Samuel, you are a coward!"
Samuel's hand was stiffened for a moment, and Nicole was surprised.
"You got the medicine from Vincent?"
She suddenly felt a chill down her spine.
Did Vincent want her dead?
Why?
There was no bad blood between them!
Besides, he had saved her before, hadn't he?
Nicole couldn't figure out what was going on, but Samuel seemed to have known the answer.
"Where did Vincent get that medicine?"
"I don't know."
For fear that Jacob would torture him again, Chuck added hurriedly, "I'm telling the truth. I only know
that the medicine was delivered from Capital City."
"It's Zama."
Samuel's words surprised Nicole again.
"Zama? Isn't she already in prison?"
"As long as she is not sentenced to death, that woman will always find a way to harm others."
Samuel didn't want to make such a comment on his biological mother, but that was the truth.
Nicole patted his hand gently.
Samuel smiled and said, "Don't worry. I'm fine. Only Zama is capable of making that medicine. The
family doctor might be able to treat a cold and a fever. But as for developing that medicine? He
wouldn't have the ability even if he were given 30 years."
Nicole realized something.
Vincent had been keeping in touch with Zama.
Vincent was Zama's biological son. Was Vincent helping Zama? Were they trying to destroy the Green
family? Did this have anything to do with the thing that Samuel gave Mr. Bates?
A series of questions flashed across Nicole's mind.
Samuel waved his hand, and Jacob took Chuck away.
"Mr. Green, you can't kill me! Mr. Bates is my boss. You promised me that as long as I tell the truth, you
won't kill me!"
Nicole heard a miserable scream from Chuck, and she frowned.
"What did you do to him?"
"Don't worry about it. How are you feeling now? Can you hold up?"
Samuel looked at Nicole with concern.
Nicole nodded and said, "I'm fine. Is this the fun thing you said you were going to show me?"
"No, this is just a prelude. I won't let Chuck or that doctor get away with this. I make sure everyone who
wants to hurt you will pay the price."
Samuel's words surprised Nicole.
"What are you going to do to them?"
"Do you want to plead for them?"
"No!"
Nicole was not a saint. She didn't have such a big heart to forgive those people who had set her up and
nearly killed her.
She just didn't want Samuel to break the law and commit murder.
As if he had read what was on Nicole's mind, Samuel smiled and said, "Sometimes, being alive is more
miserable than being dead. Don't worry. I'm a good citizen and I won't take away a person’s life at will."
Why did this sound so weird?
Nicole looked at Samuel skeptically.
Samuel smiled and said, "Alright, seriously, what do you think of this villa?"
Nicole was surprised by the question he brought up out of the blue.
"What do you mean?"
"Just tell me what you think of it."
Nicole looked around and found that the decoration was luxurious but not flashy. On the whole, it was a
nice place.
"It's nice."
"What do you think about giving this villa to Jacob and Olivia as a wedding present?"
Nicole fell into a daze upon hearing that. After a short while, she asked in both surprise and joy, "Are
you saying that Jacob and Olivia are getting married?"
"That's what Jacob has told me. Although Jacob has made a lot of money working for me these years,
he hasn't bought a decent house yet."
Hearing that, Nicole was surprised.
"Then where does he live?"
"Staff dormitory. Can you believe that?"
"How could it be?"
Nicole had always thought Jacob, who had so much money, had a house because. She was surprised
that he lived in the staff dormitory.
Samuel whispered, "He has been an orphan since he was young. The word 'home' means a lot to him.
He says that he will not buy a house before he gets married. When proposing to Olivia, he's also
looking for a house. He has already started the procedures of buying a house."
When Nicole heard that, she involuntarily asked, "Then why are you giving him a villa? Will he still need
this if he's already buying one?"
"The villa is for Olivia. She's your best friend. What are you going to give her as her wedding gift? A
woman should always have her own house, where she can stay to calm down when she gets upset by
someone else. Olivia is an orphan. Although you think of her as your little sister, when she suffers
grievances one day, she might not come to complain to you. Therefore, this house is for her."
Nicole was moved.
She never thought that Samuel would be so considerate.
Olivia was always proud. If she suffered any grievances, she wouldn't tell Nicole. Where would she go
by the time?
Sure enough, Samuel was considerate.
Did he buy this house? Or did he rob it from the previous owner?
"Have you finished all the paperwork to officially own this villa?"
Nicole asked subtly, but Samuel understood what she was implying.
He reached out to touch her nose and said with a smile, "What kind of person do you think I am? A
bandit? I don't need to rob a house to give it away. This villa belongs to Mr. Bates. I bought it from him.
All the procedures are complete. Olivia's name is on the property certificate. Here!"
As he spoke, Samuel took out the property certificate from under the coffee table and handed it to
Nicole.
Nicole looked at the name on the certificate and felt touched.
"Thank you, Samuel."
"Silly girl!"
Samuel stroked Nicole's head with affection.
Suddenly, here came the sound of the car engine and the voices of some people arguing from outside.
Who's here?
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