Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean)

Chapter 391

Being disfigured was already a devastating blow to a lady. If she was sentenced to jail in addition to

this, she would be finished for life. While Sebastian was not hard-hearted enough to let this happen due

to his advanced age, he didn’t expect the woman to become even more insatiable after he gave in!

Myra comforted him and said, “Please don’t be mad, Old Master Hart. Tony said there’s evidence

recorded on the dashcam, so the court will give a fair ruling later on.”

“I know that.” Sebastian patted her on the shoulder. “Are you scared? I’ll have Lisa bring you a bowl of

bird’s nest essence upstairs later; you should go up and get some rest.”

“Okay.” Myra nodded before heading upstairs.

…

This time, it was a rather easy matter to resolve. Not only did Gemma fail to drag Tony into the mire,

what Tony said later made everyone see the light all of a sudden. “I’ve installed a dashcam in my car,

so there’s evidence that you ran over and collided with my vehicle on your own initiative. I understand Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.

that you’re eager to save your family, Miss Walton, but I won’t wrongly accuse someone of knocking me

over and intimidate them into bailing out your family like what you’re doing now. Now that everyone

knows the Walton Family is suspected of being involved in money laundering and many other crimes,

aren’t you going too far by doing so, Miss Walton? Have you thought of the families that were brought

to ruins and destroyed by the Walton Family?”

This speech, imbued with a sense of justice, threw Gemma into an abyss right away. Even though it

was Tony who knocked Gemma over while driving, everyone already learned that Gemma deliberately

threw herself in front of his car to intimidate Director Hart—the head of the Hart Group—into using his

ability and means to bail her three evil and merciless relatives out of the police station. Such behavior

was intolerable in the eyes of everyone and the law. Tony’s words were later confirmed when the video

recorded on his dashcam was made public. Not only was Gemma’s faint hope of punishing him

shattered at once, her previous deliberate attempt to run him down with her car was uncovered as well.

Some even doubted if she actually had a mental illness, and it resulted in strong demands that an open

psychiatric evaluation was carried out on her.

Since the police department could not bear the pressure, they sent experts to the hospital to evaluate

Gemma’s mental condition. Now that the Walton Family had neither power nor financial resources, they

couldn’t do anything at all. Therefore, it was discovered that Gemma didn’t have schizophrenia at all.

She was soon prosecuted for multiple offenses this time.

Now that four out of five Waltons were under police investigation, Shelly—the only Walton left—came

into the spotlight. It was a no-brainer that no one in this family could be innocent, but when the police

went to the Walton Residence to serve an arrest warrant on her, she was already nowhere to be found;

it was said that she had gone abroad. Her going abroad made the Waltons seem guilty, so the police

department investigated them with much greater intensity.

…

When Kris saw all of this, she was afraid, gloating, and worried at the same time. She had almost lost

everything now; even though she had obtained her mother’s forgiveness, they had no one to depend

on for support as Cameron was also summoned under investigation. Almost all the past relationships

that Rachel had nurtured between her and some shareholders came to nothing, for those people

turned to Myra; they supported the notion of promoting her to the chairman of the Stark Group’s board

of directors.

Kris and Rachel knew that the Stark Group was now in dire straits. Unless Myra took action, the Stark

Group would be declared insolvent right away; in other words, they would get nothing in the end.

Therefore, they didn’t step out and argue with Myra at this moment.

Rachel’s idea was to go back and take a share of the profits after the Stark Group’s recovery. After all,

Kris was also Cameron’s daughter; it was impossible that she wouldn’t get any shares in the Stark

Group at all!

Kris agreed with Rachel’s idea, for she couldn’t think of another idea apart from this. Nonetheless, she

could hardly reconcile herself to her current situation whenever she thought of how Tony spoiled Myra.

With Gideon as her fiancé, she could have fought with Myra to prove who was better, but who would

have predicted what happened afterward? However, she felt lucky that the incident back then caused

her to break with the Walton Family. Otherwise, she would be unable to deny any involvement in the

Walton Family’s money laundering this time.

The thought of Gideon made her think of Hayden. Even though Hayden was also nice to her, it was

only human nature to never be content with one’s lot. After all, Hayden was far from being Tony’s

match.

At the thought of this, Kris quickly dismissed Hayden as someone considerably inferior. She bit her lip

and hesitated for a moment. Nevertheless, she picked up her cell phone and sent Tony a text message

that read, ‘Are you asleep, Tony?’

She was still unwilling to give up; she would rather be Tony’s mistress than Hayden’s wife, for this

would make her see some hope for the future at the very least! Didn’t her mother take the place of

Myra’s mother—Cameron’s first wife—and become Cameron’s legal wife herself? She believed that

she had plenty of ways to drive Myra away from Tony as long as she was given enough time!

Soon, she received a text message which simply read, ‘What?’

However, this word alone was all it took for Kris to sit up in bed instantly with joy and surprise gleaming

in her eyes! She never expected that Tony would text her in response after she sent him a text

message to sound him out. It was only one word, yet it made her see hope. After all, he didn’t even

want to say a word to her in the past!

Her hands almost trembled as she texted, ‘I am still awake. I’m… thinking about you now…’ After

taking a deep breath, she quickly sent the text message; it was as if she was afraid that she’d regret it.

The wait was endless; even three mere minutes felt like three days to Kris. She feared that her text

message would be met with aversion; she was also scared that everything just now was merely her

illusion, for Tony still had no feelings for her at all!

She got out of bed and took a sip of water while she was waiting. When she lay down again, she finally

got a reply. It read, ‘Where are you?’

The corners of Kris’s eyes crinkled when she saw this sentence, and she was almost certain that Tony

had taken the bait this time. I just know that no man is able to resist my temptation! I’m prettier than

Myra, and my body is still slim even though I’m pregnant right now, she thought to herself. She got out

of bed and unbuttoned her pajamas in front of the full-length mirror beside the bed. What a perfect

figure and a perfectly gorgeous face…

She chuckled. “You think that you have found the perfect love, but you’re actually no different from that

stupid mother of yours, Myra. Just you wait; I’ll snatch away everything you have one day!”

She picked up her cell phone, thought for a while, and sent a text message containing the address of a

hotel. Soon, she got a reply. It read, ‘Wait for me there. I’ll be there in an hour.’

Kris’s eyes were filled with joy. After finding a sexy nightgown in her wardrobe, she put it into her

handbag. She got dressed, opened the door of her bedroom, and walked outside.

At the same time, Rachel happened to open the door outside. When she saw Kris coming out dressed

to the nines, she asked with a frown, “Where are you going, Kris?”

“I’m going out first. Hayden said he has something to talk to me about,” Kris replied while feigning

nonchalance.

Rachel’s expression softened a bit when she heard that it was Hayden who wanted to see her

daughter. Fearing that Kris would drive Hayden away with her thoughtlessness, she advised her with

patience and sincerity by saying, “Now that Hayden is your only bargaining chip, you must hold on to

him first. Don’t make him angry again, Kris; everything will be better once we get through this period of

time.”