"What you're saying is..."
After a long moment of silence, Charles lifted his head to stare intently at Jim's face.
"When you first started working for Landry Group, you were brainwashed by Butler Fred and Mickey
into committing these acts of treachery?"
He furrowed his eyebrows and added, "But even though it was seven or eight years ago, Rosalyn and I
had still treated you well, hadn't we, Jim? If so, why would you be persuaded by Butler Fred into
betraying our family? Besides, even if he had successfully talked you into doing these, what happened
after that?"
Charles raised his uninjured hand and snatched the documents out of Jim's hand.There was a hint of
fury in his wizened gaze as he glared at Jim.
"All these papers show that the companies registered under your name are still in business until
now.Not only that, but they're becoming more and more successful by the day! "Rosalyn and I can
understand when you say you were brainwashed and didn't know better.
After all, every one of us had committed mistakes when we were young, but even after knowing you
made a mistake, you never tried to correct yourself and instead started investing more effort into
running these private companies.
"Moreover, you never tried to help the Landry family financially despite knowing about the hardship we
had gone through for the past year."
Charles fixated his angry gaze on Jim's face and snarled, "How're you going to explain yourself now?"
Jim furrowed his brows in exasperation when faced with his father's blatant fury.He sighed and plopped
down in a chaise lounge, then turned to glance at Butler Fred, who was still restrained.
''Are you going to explain, or do you want me to do it?"
The servants had managed to help Butler Fred up from the ground, but at this moment, his face was
stained with dirt and dust.
When he heard Jim talking to him, he could not help sneering as he replied, "Are you kidding me,
Young Master Landry?
"If I told them the truth about everything, will you be able to convince the LCGj! AkIIry and Lynch
families to let me go and show me mercy?"
Jim narrowed his eyes and glanced first at Charles, then at Joshua.
Finally, he burst into laughter and said, "It's clear that I can't do so."
"Well, in that case, why should I help you?"
Butler Fred sneered.
"
Do you honestly think I'd be so kind as to help your cause?"
A glimmer of triumph flashed through his eyes as he added, "You have no way of explaining yourself
out of this, do you? Otherwise, why would you have asked me for help? I'm sorry to say this, but...
"He narrowed his eyes.”
"Helping you is the last thing I want to do right now, so—"
"So let me explain instead,"
Mickey interrupted before Butler Fred could even finish his sentence.
Mickey had not uttered a single word from the moment he followed Butler, Fred, Rosalyn, and Luna into
the garden, so Luna and Joshua were both surprised to hear him speak suddenly.
Luna turned to stare at him in bewilderment.She did not understand why Mickey would volunteer
himself after hearing Butler Fred declare his refusal to help Jim.
Did he have a conscience after all? Or, was he trying to draw the line between him and Butler Fred so
he would have a chance of freedom?
"Mickey..."
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